{"id":65950,"date":"2025-08-26T02:33:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T05:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/nasas-webb-space-telescope-observes-interstellar-comet\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T02:33:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T05:33:53","slug":"nasas-webb-space-telescope-observes-interstellar-comet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/en\/nasas-webb-space-telescope-observes-interstellar-comet\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Webb Space Telescope Observes Interstellar Comet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope observed interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS Aug. 6, with its Near-Infrared Spectrograph instrument. The research team has been analyzing insights from Webb\u2019s data, and a preprint is available online<\/a>. Webb is one of NASA\u2019s space telescopes observing this comet, together providing more information about its size, physical properties, and chemical makeup. For example, NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope<\/a> and the recently launched SPHEREx<\/a>\u00a0mission have also observed the comet. While the comet poses no threat to Earth, NASA\u2019s space telescopes help support the agency\u2019s ongoing mission to find, track, and better understand solar system objects.<\/p>\n

Alise Fisher
NASA Headquarters, Washington
202-358-2546
alise.m.fisher@nasa.gov<\/a><\/p>\n

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