Watch: Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS passes through solar systemCanary Islands Institute of Physics Thursday July 03, 2025 shared visuals showing rare interstellar comet '3I/ATLAS' passing through our solar systemFriday July 4, 2025 11:10 PM , ummid.com News Network[The trajectory of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it passes through the solar system. (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech)]Canary Islands Institute of Physics Thursday July 03, 2025 shared visuals showing rare interstellar comet '3I/ATLAS' passing through our solar system. The NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first reported observations of a comet that originated from interstellar space Tuesday July 1. Arriving from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, the interstellar comet has been officially named 3I/ATLAS. 3rd known interstellar cometComet 3I/ATLAS is the only third confirmed object from outside the solar system after 'Oumuamua (2017) and comet 2I/Borisov (2019) .