Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object to enter our solar system, was recently observed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other space missions. 3I/ATLAS caused a buzz worldwide, becoming a cosmic celebrity, with all space agencies tirelessly working to get more data about it.

Avi Loeb, a prominent Harvard scientist, has said that the space object might not be naturally occurring and could be an "alien" technology. He also pointed out various anomalies with 3I/ATLAS. However, when NASA released images of 3I/ATLAS, it referred to it as a "comet".

3I/ATLAS is set to make its closest approach to Earth on December 19, 2025. But before that happens, here are some of the latest images taken by different space telescopes

Hubble reobserved it on November 30 with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument when the space object was 286 million kilometres from Earth. The image shows background stars as streaks of light as the telescope was fixated on the fast-moving comet.

The image clearly shows a bright white dot at the centre, which is the nucleus (its main body). The image also shows a coma around the comet, and also a tail.

In a blog post on Medium, Loeb explained that the new radius of the glow is about 40,000 kilometres, and its anti-tail extension goes out to about 60,000 kilometres

Source:Ndtv