NASA saw an interstellar comet from a perspective no one expected

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft has recorded important new observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS using its Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) run by the Southwest Research Institute. In July, 3I/ATLAS became only the third confirmed object from another star system known to pass through our solar system. The UVS instrument observed the comet for a brief period during an observation from […]