You can watch comet 3I/ATLAS live online tonight (July 3), thanks to the Virtual Telescope Project, which will livestream views beginning at 6:00 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT). The feed will showcase imagery from telescopes in Manciano, Italy, weather permitting. Tune in via Virtual Telescope's WebTV, YouTube channel or here on Space.com.

Late in the evening on July 1, a telescope in Chile that is part of the global, NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) picked up on a new moving dot in the sky, an object traveling past the orbit of Jupiter.

Spotting a possible interstellar object is incredibly rare, and it’s exciting that our UH-operated system caught it,” University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy’s John Tonry said following the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) detection of a high-speed object on July 1,