Right now at 12:00 UTC November 5 2025 the third-ever interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is rocketing through Virgo just 0.68 AU from Earth glowing at magnitude 11.5 after surviving its October 29 perihelion barbecue 126 million miles from the Sun. Born 7 billion years ago in another star system this 3-mile-wide dirty snowball is leaking water like a fire-hose and spitting cyanide jets faster than any home-grown comet we have ever seen. Today it passes only 60 million miles from Venus then aims straight for a December 19 Earth flyby at a safe 167 million miles before waving goodbye past Jupiter in March 2026.
NASA just dropped the ultimate cheat-code: their free Eyes on the Solar System web app lets you sit in mission control and pilot a virtual spaceship alongside the comet in real time. No download needed. Open the link above, hit PLAY, drag the timeline to TODAY and watch the green trail blaze across the planets. Zoom to 3I/ATLAS, switch to 8K texture mode, and screenshot your selfie with the alien ice-ball – perfect Instagram rocket fuel.
Step-by-step 60-second launch:
- Click the red button above → app loads in your browser
- Search “3I/ATLAS” or “C/2025 N1” in the top bar
- Click the comet → green orbit appears
- Slide speed to 1000x → watch it outrun Mercury
- Tap camera icon → record 4K video straight to your phone
- Hit SHARE → get a unique URL to challenge friends
Backyard hunters listen up: grab any 8-inch Dobsonian or 10×50 binoculars, face east 2 hours before dawn, aim 3 finger-widths above brilliant Venus and left of blue-white Spica. The comet looks like a faint cotton ball sliding 2° per day across Virgo. Download our printable PDF sky map below – zero light pollution needed in bortle 4 skies. First 500 downloaders get auto-entered for a signed Hubble 3I/ATLAS print.
Science bombshell: Swift UV telescope caught the comet gushing hydroxyl – proof it carries liquid water oceans older than Earth locked inside. Webb sniffed metallic nickel vapor never seen in Solar System comets hinting it formed around a carbon-rich red dwarf billions of light-years away. If that tail brushes Jupiter’s magnetosphere in March 2026 the plasma fireworks could light up JUICE spacecraft cameras for weeks.
Zero threat guaranteed: NASA’s JPL orbit calculator gives 0.000% impact probability – it will slingshot out at 68 km/s never to return. But missing it means waiting centuries for the next interstellar postcard.
Click the red button, bookmark this page, refresh hourly for live magnitude updates and join 1.2 million viewers already chasing 3I/ATLAS. Drop your best screenshot in the comments – top 3 win a NASA meatball sticker pack mailed anywhere on Earth. The comet waits for no one – launch now!
Zoom at 68 km/s alongside interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in NASA’s Eyes app – watch it blast past Venus TODAY (Nov 5), dodge Earth by 167 million miles Dec 19, then slingshot out forever! 60-sec setup, 4K live orbit, free phone wallpaper + printable sky map inside. Click before it hides behind Jupiter March 2026!
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