Nasa has unveiled remarkable new photographs from the Hubble Space Telescope showing an extraordinary celestial visitor speeding through our solar system. The interstellar comet, designated 3I/ATLAS,

NASA has shared new details about 3I/ATLAS. It is an interstellar object moving at 209,000 km/h. Hubble images show it is smaller than thought, about 5.6 km wide. It is a comet with a glowing tail. Scientists estimate it is eight billion years old.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured its most detailed image yet of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. The rare comet is expected to remain visible to ground-based telescopes through September before passing behind the Sun and reappearing during the winter.