PetaPixel You’ve Never Seen an Interstellar Comet Look This Awesome

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A comet with a bright core and faint tail moves through space, surrounded by colorful, streaked star trails in red, green, and blue on a dark background.

A few weeks after the Hubble Space Telescope captured an incredible photo of comet 3I/ATLAS as it screamed through the solar system at a blistering 130,000 miles per hour (209,000 kilometers per hour), the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on Gemini South in Chile set its sights on the comet, capturing a gorgeous, colorful photo unlike anything seen before.

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