Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS rapidly brightened as it zoomed behind Sun, 'it's bluer than our star,' reveals new study

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has been flying around the sun to reach perihelion (its closest point to the sun) on Thursday (October 30), passing just inside the orbit of Mars.

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