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New images reveal active interstellar comet 31/ATLAS
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
|February 2026
NASA and ESA capture gas, dust and a plasma tail ahead of the comet's closest Earth approach
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New high-resolution images from NASA and ESA show comet 3I/ATLAS in an unexpectedly active state, with a bright coma, jet-like features and evidence for both a dust tail and a plasma tail.
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