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Comet 3I/ATLAS poses no threat to Earth and will remain far away, coming only about as close as the orbit of Mars. 3I/ATLAS should remain visible to ground-based telescopes through September 2025, pass behind the Sun, and then reappear on the other side of the Sun by early December 2025.

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This image shows the motion of comet 3I/ATLAS moving in front of background stars. These follow-up observations by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope shows the object has faint cometary activity.

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This sparkling picture taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the center of globular cluster Messier 4. The power of Hubble has resolved the cluster into a multitude of glowing orbs, each a colossal nuclear furnace. It contains several tens of thousand stars and is noteworthy in being home to many white dwarfs — the cores of ancient, dying stars whose outer layers have drifted away into space. In July 2003, Hubble helped make the astounding discovery of a planet called PSR B1620-26 b, 2.5 times the mass of Jupiter, which is located in this cluster. Its age is estimated to be around 13 billion years — almost three times as old as the Solar System! It is also unusual in that it orbits a binary system of a white dwarf and a pulsar (a type of neutron star).

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The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which has also captured a smaller companion star in the upper left of this image. Both stars lie in the Orion Nebula, a colossal region of star formation roughly 1450 light years from Earth.

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A type of phytoplankton called coccolithophores, less common in waters off New England since around 2010, made an impressive appearance in summer 2025.

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