I watched scientists track interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS leaving the solar system in real-time: ‘This is some prime-time science’

It was 4 a.m. on Nov. 25 at the top of Hawaii’s dormant Maunakea volcano. The process to view the comet took less time than expected.

On the main screen, the subject at hand, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was a small, fuzzy blob drifting through a…

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