{"id":230053,"date":"2026-01-28T21:30:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/rare-cosmic-lineup-gives-hubble-close-look-at-3i-atlas"},"modified":"2026-01-28T21:30:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:30:04","slug":"rare-cosmic-lineup-gives-hubble-close-look-at-3i-atlas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/rare-cosmic-lineup-gives-hubble-close-look-at-3i-atlas","title":{"rendered":"Rare Cosmic Lineup Gives Hubble Close Look at 3I\/ATLAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rare-cosmic-lineup-gives-hubble-close-look-at-3i-atlas.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA exoplanet probe tracks interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS to gauge its spin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/astronomy\/comets\/nasa-exoplanet-probe-tracks-interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-to-gauge-its-spin\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/astronomy\/comets\/nasa-exoplanet-probe-\u2026e-its-spin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s TESS Reobserves Comet 3I\/ATLAS <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/blogs\/3iatlas\/2026\/01\/27\/nasas-tess-reobserves-comet-3i-atlas\/\">https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/blogs\/3iatlas\/2026\/01\/27\/nasas-tess\u2026-3i-atlas\/<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>On January 22, 2026, the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observed the interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS nearly perfectly aligned with the Sun-Earth axis, revealing unprecedented jet structures and an extended anti-tail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA exoplanet probe tracks interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS to gauge its spin https:\/\/www.space.com\/astronomy\/comets\/nasa-exoplanet-probe-\u2026e-its-spin. NASA\u2019s TESS Reobserves Comet 3I\/ATLAS https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/blogs\/3iatlas\/2026\/01\/27\/nasas-tess\u2026-3i-atlas\/ On January 22, 2026, the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observed the interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS nearly perfectly aligned with the Sun-Earth axis, revealing unprecedented jet structures and an extended anti-tail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}