interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS: Interstellar comet 31/ATLAS moving away from the Sun: When and where to watch livestream? Check date, time and other details
The Virtual Telescope Project’s YouTube livestream will offer a real-time view of the massive comet starting at 11:15 PM ET tonight, The New York Post reports. According to Space.com, the massive comet will be above the eastern horizon and travel among the stars of the Virgo constellation.
When will you get a live stream of comet 3I/ATLAS?
You can get a live stream of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS starting at 11:15 PM ET tonight. According to Space.Com, a series of telescopes will be lined up by the organization in Manciano, Italy, to give people around the world a look at this much-talked-about comet, as its brightness is too dim (+10.9) to be seen with the naked eye alone. This imaging event comes at a time when NASA will soon release the highest resolution of any 3I/ATLAS image taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE camera within a few days, an agency source told The Post.
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The photos are thought to have been taken in early October, but have not yet been released due to the government shutdown that ended last week. “Science should have been prioritized over bureaucracy,” Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb told The Post. “The truth about the nature of 3I/ATLAS will be revealed through the sharing of data, not through the story of gatekeepers.”
It’s been four months since the controversial 31/ATLAS was first discovered, and several different theories have been put forward as to what this approaching comet might be. Last month, the comet, which was expected to reach its closest point to the Sun, came suspiciously close to Jupiter, Venus and Mars, leading some to believe it could be an extraterrestrial spacecraft.
One of those believers was Elon Musk, who believed a comet this size could “destroy a continent…maybe worse.” “It would be a real problem if it crashed,” Rogan said to Musk, who nodded, “It would probably kill most human lives.”ALSO READ: Jamie Dimon’s harsh warning for the US economy: ‘If we don’t fix these…’ says JPMorgan Chase CEO
NASA will share images of comet 3I/ATLAS
The space agency NASA is preparing to release highly anticipated images of the Manhattan-sized interstellar object 3I/ATLAS within days, a source at the space agency told The Post. Images of the mysterious object taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE camera as it passed by the Red Planet from Oct. 1 to Oct. 7 were not released because of the government shutdown that ended late Wednesday.
The snapshots, which are expected to be 3I/ATLAS’s highest resolution yet, will be released next week, the source said. Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, who suggested the object could potentially be an alien spacecraft, cast the long-delayed release as a symptom of government inefficiency.
“Science should have been prioritized over bureaucracy,” Loeb told The Post. “The truth about the nature of 3I/ATLAS will be revealed through the sharing of data, not through the story of gatekeepers.”
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