In a cosmic game of hide and seek, our third-ever known visitor from another star system is finally revealing its true colours. For months, astronomers have been tracking a mysterious wanderer known as 3I/ATLAS, a visitor that has travelled across the unimaginable void of interstellar space just to graze the edges of our Sun.
While most of us were looking at the familiar stars, this frozen relic was undergoing a dramatic chemical transformation, shifting from a dull, dusty red to a vibrant, ghostly green. It is a spectacle that reminds us how little we truly know about the space beyond our backyard.
