India, Nov. 7 -- China's Tianwen 1 spacecraft has captured new images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) released the pictures this week, noting that these were taken between October 1 and October 4.

The new images were captured when 3I/ATLAS passed near Mars. This adds another data point to the small but growing record of material that originates outside our solar system.

Interstellar objects are extremely rare. Astronomers have only narrow windows to capture movement, composition, and trajectory clues before they slip back into deep space. Before 3I/ATLAS, only two others had been confirmed - 'Oumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2019 - according to Space.com.

This time, observation effor...