WATCH: Rare Images of an ‘Icy Visitor’ to Our Solar System, the Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, Captured From the International Space Station
The comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas seen from the International Space Station.
An unusual look from the International Space Station shows us an ‘icy visitor’ that is flying through the inner solar system.
We are talking about Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, also called Comet C/2023 A3, captured by the lenses of NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, who recently posted a view of the comet rising beyond Earth, as the Space station zipped through its orbit at some 17,500 mph.
The comet has grown brighter as it’s approached the sun, allowing astronauts aboard the International Space Station to ‘capture vivid footage of this ancient ball of ice, rock, and dust’.
NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick.
Matthew Dominick joined NASA in 2017.
