☄ Caught on cam: interstellar comet spotted in motion!

Say hi to 3I/ATLAS — the third interstellar object ever discovered and the first one ever filmed in motion! After billions of years drifting through space, it just got caught by Earth’s telescopes.
Detected on July 1 at 670 million km from the Sun, astronomers quickly aimed the VLT telescope and boom — the first real video of an object from beyond our solar system. It’s blazing through space at 60 km/s, and might be older than Earth — up to 11 billion years!
Next up: Hubble and James Webb will study it closely — size, composition, spin. Only hiccup? It'll hide behind the Sun during its closest approach in Oct 2025, but reappears in December before vanishing into deep space again.
Rare cosmic guest, front-row seats — don't blink.