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    NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Tracks Brightening of Interstellar Comet

    This observation by NASA’s SPHEREx show the infrared light emitted by the organic molecules contained within comet 3I/ATLAS’s coma during the mission’s December 2025 campaign

    NASA’s SPHEREx mission turned its infrared gaze on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in December 2025, adding to the deep pool of information the agency has gathered on what is only the third such object to be discovered passing through our solar system. In a new research note, mission scientists describe the detection of organic molecules, such […]

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