No one knows where the comet came from. It’s like glimpsing a rifle bullet for a thousandth of a second,” said David Jewitt, the University of California, Los Angeles astronomer in charge of Hubble’s newest observations.

Hubble telescope captures third interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS showing active dust coma racing through solar system.

U-M astronomers are helping study a fast-moving, ancient, and massive comet that formed beyond our galaxy. A group of astronomers from around the world, including a doctoral student from the University of Michigan,

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed 3I/ATLAS, only the third known object from outside our Solar System to visit our neighborhood.