The track left by the fast movement of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS during half an hour on July 3th in a magnified zone of a stack of 19 original images taken with a 72 cm telescope from Deep Sky Chile at Rio Hurtado Valley, Chile - MPC X07. The inset shows better the faint path in the observing interval, and an arrow indicates the direction of motion. Object found and astrometrically measured by Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez (CSIC/IEEC)
WHY COMET #3I #ATLAS IS SO FAINT? We already contributed yesterday with astrometry to the #MinorPlanetCenter database, & Dr @joseptrigo.bsky.social @ice-csic.bsky.social explained it to Science In Action #BBCNews
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... (min. 11)
Image planned by Jorge A Vázquez #UCJC
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