中国天问一号轨道器捕捉到星际彗星3I/ATLAS的图像

"...They’ve got their Is on the prize...."

"...furthering efforts to shed light on the interstellar anomaly — which some have suspected has alien origins...."

"...Capturing the comet was no mean feat given that the spacecraft’s cameras are designed to image the well-lit surface of a planet and not a distant and relatively small comet moving at 129,800 mph...."

"...Capturing the comet on camera has been a real space race of late...."

"...The cosmic oddity shifted to the opposite side of the Sun in September, getting lost in the solar glare, with experts claiming that it wouldn’t be visible from Earth until at least later this month...."

"...Meanwhile, astrophysicist Avi Loeb accused NASA of refusing to show him a HiRISE camera image snapped of the comet taken on Oct. 2. He suggested that the photo could’ve offered clues to ATLAS’ non-cometary characteristics, such as a tail that points toward and not away from the sun as is standard...."

"...Earlier this month, GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna called on acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy to share unreleased data and images of the Manhattan-sized comet, which is the third ever interstellar object recorded in our solar system...."

"...Loeb praised Luna for taking the initiative in a recent post on Medium, writing, “We all owe a debt of deep gratitude for the visionary support displayed by Representative Luna to frontier science through her letter.”..."

"...Since ATLAS’s discovery in July, the Harvard scientist has claimed that the object has been exhibiting a host of anomalous behaviors that could suggest that it’s an extraterrestrial probe...."