3 I/ATLAS 飛越
3I/ATLAS Flyby

來源:Dan Bartlett|發表日期:2025-12-26
引人注目的星際訪客 3 I/ATLAS 於 12 月 19 日在 1 . 8 個天文單位的距離上不太靠近地飛越了我們的地球。這大約是 900 光秒的距離。不過,這次深度曝光還是從另一個恆星系統中捕捉到了彗星的身影,大約 4 天前,也就是 12 月 15 日晚上,彗星輕輕掠過獅子座的微弱恆星背景。雖然很微弱,但影像資料中強調的顏色,展示了彗星淡黃色的塵埃尾和淡藍色的離子尾,以及帶綠色的彗纓。儘管地球上的望遠鏡和太空飛行器陣列在仔細觀察這顆彗星,但 3 I ATLAS 正在駛出太陽系。目前,它正沿著雙曲線軌跡向外移動,相對於太陽的速度大約為每秒 64 公里,速度太快,以至於無法擺脫太陽引力的束縛。
原文:Attention grabbing interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS made its not-so-close flyby of our fair planet on December 19 at a distance of 1.8 astronomical units. That's about 900 light-seconds. Still, this deep exposure captures the comet from another star system as it gently swept across a faint background of stars in the constellation Leo about 4 days earlier, on the night of December 15. Though faint, colors emphasized in the image data, show off the comet's yellowish dust tail and bluish ion tail along with a greenish tinged coma. And even while scrutinized by arrays of telescopes and spacecraft from planet Earth, 3I ATLAS is headed out of the Solar System. It's presently moving outward along a hyperbolic trajectory at about 64 kilometers per second relative to the Sun, too fast to be bound the Sun's gravity.
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