Breathtaking new details revealed by multiple spacecraft and observatories

By Fraser Merrick – Hillock-head.co.uk

A glow the color of cold fire has slipped into view. Today’s release stitches together images of an interstellar comet from a chorus of telescopes—some orbiting above our weather, some rooted on the driest mountaintops. New details pop with unsettling clarity: striations in the tail, a messy halo breathing off ices born under another star. It’s a once-in-a-generation look at a traveler that won’t be staying long.

You could hear the little gasps—the kind people make when something they’ve waited months to see finally sharpens into focus. In one frame, the comet’s tail surged like a windsock; in another, the nucleus hid behind a bright, fuzzy veil we call the coma. I stared longer than I meant to, letting my coffee go cold. It shouldn’t even be here.