Gemini North tracks changing glow of interstellar Comet 3IATLAS
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"Unveiling the Cosmic Dance: Gemini North's Colorful Encounter with Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS"
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Gemini North tracks changing glow of interstellar Comet 3IATLAS

Exciting news from the world of astronomy! The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is capturing attention once again as Gemini North provides stunning new color images. Recently emerging from behind the Sun o...

3I/ATLAS: Gemini Observatory Captures Exocomet On Its Approach To Earth And It Is Glowing Green; Here’s Why

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://in.mashable.com/science/103519/3iatlas-gemini-observatory-captures-exocomet-on-its-approach-to-earth-and-it-is-glowing-green-heres

Finally an RGB image of comet #3IATLAS from images taken by #GeminiNorth during the 26 November #shadowTheScientists session: https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2532/ - the coma has become bluer due to more gas emission. Also published today: an X-ray image by XMM-Newton at https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/12/XMM-Newton_sees_comet_3I_ATLAS_in_X-ray_light with explanations in http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005600/CBET005646.txt which also contains more 3I news.

Meanwhile the paper https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ae2915 claims an upper limit for 3I's nucleus diameter of only some 750 meters from the measured non-gravitational acceleration (NGA) parameters: that would be waaay more stringent than the 5.6 km upper limit from early Hubble observations reported in https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adf8d8 (where also a lower limit of 440 meters is stated).

And here is a recording of the #ShadowTheScientists live observation of interstellar comet #3IATLAS with #GeminiNorth a few hours ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW0chiPZyYM
Nov 26, 2025: Exploring Comet 3I/ATLAS - A Rare Encounter with an Interstellar Visitor

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And here is what comet #3IATLAS looks like for the #geminiNorth Integral Field Unit (IFU) taking numerous spectra from points across the coma - from #ShadowTheScientists
What a #GeminiNorth #3IATLAS spectrum looks like - as raw as it gets, from the #shadowTheScientists session. See https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17503 for a pre-perihelion spectrum.
The #GeminiNorth telescopes is observing the interstellar comet #3IATLAS right now: here is the acquisition image from moments ago, spectra to be taken now - from the #ShadowTheScientists session.
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Un soleil autour de Bételgeuse, une découverte qui fait débat

Des astronomes américains pensent avoir détecté une petite étoile autour de la supergéante rouge Bételgeuse. Une annonce jugée précipitée par certains. Mais ses découvreurs ont de bonnes raisons d’y croire…

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Gemini North telescope in Hawai‘i reveals never-before-seen companion to Betelgeuse, solving millennia-old mystery

https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2523/

Credit image :International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA; Image Processing: M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)

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