NASA just captured a comet from another solar system, from nearly every angle. 🛰️
Comet 3I/ATLAS isn’t just any comet, it’s interstellar, formed in a different star system and now offering a rare look at alien material passing through ours. Scientists are using images from spacecraft orbiting Mars, heading to Jupiter, watching the Sun, and more to study its composition. These observations help us understand how solar systems like ours form and evolve. It’s a rare chance to compare our cosmic neighborhood to another.
Image is a bit of a stretch here.
That’s what makes this whole thing even more odd. I’m no genius here but we have some pretty incredible photos and details of a lot of things in outer space and yet all of our cameras right now that are looking at this thing from more then serval different angles are all coming out like dog shit. I don’t know just seems weird and disappointing given all the hype it caused.
I think you severely underestimate how hard it is to take 'pretty incredible photos' in space.
Possibly, I admit my ignorance.
For all the incredible space photos usually there's a carefully planned mission with the right gear tuned to whatever the mission is.
With this one they're using whatever is available to make whatever photos they can, hence why the low res images we are getting.
Taking a picture of this maybe 3 mile around rock with the nearest cameras to it at 18 million miles from Mars is the equivalent of taking a picture of a watermelon from 10k miles away.
Haha I love this! Thank you kind stranger
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Absolutely pathetic NASA, we have better pictures from the community.
Unfortunately, this only feeds the alien object theory.
We need better than this.
I’d suggest looking into this more rather than comparing how pretty the pictures look it’s not that simple
The nastiness was out quite quickly there. I have looked more into it, probably more than you.
Nastiness?
well they have almost no budget, thats why it looks employee took a photo of atlas with his nokia 3310
True only $25 billion for 2025. 🙄
Why does a guy with a couple thousand dollar telescope from his backyard get a better picture of 3I/Atlas than NASA with their $24.5 Billion budget? How does this happen?
Pretty sure these pictures were taken all the way back in October by HiRISE, so they had the best picture compared to everyone else at the time, so since they had to release those pics after the shutdown they might look comparably worse in comparison to others taken today. Obviously pictures taken right now are gonna be a small bit better considering the thing is much more visible and closer to us. Correct me if I’m wrong though.
They can do better images of other stars, light years away…
They just keep telling me how safe I am like I give a f***. If it’s safety vs the truth I’d take the truth all day long.
Her enthusiasm is SO fake
Yeah th "OMG SCIEENCE!" trope is tired. It's always some giddy video like this with absolutely mundane shit.
Talking down to us like we a small kids, first day in kindergarten
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