In today's image, we see an image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS a week or so ago - shortly before its closest approach to Earth. (This was about twice the Earth-Sun distance, so it was never close!) It is now heading back out to interstellar space - the third object like this that has now been positively identified.

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