Comet 3I/ATLAS is brightening more quickly than expectedThe most recent observations of our new interstellar visitor, Comet 3I/ATLAS, show it brightening more quickly than predicted. Up until now, the interstellar comet had been brightening as expected. Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS: A look backwardA team of scientists, led by Xabier Pérez-Couto of the University of A Coruña in Spain, has traced the path of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS back 10 million years. Pérez-Couto and team said that the interstellar comet is a:… key probe of the galactic population of icy planetesimals. Bottom line: Interstellar object comet 3I/ATLAS appears to be brightening more quickly than expected.