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).

Here’s how it works. (Image credit: ESA. Courtesy of MPAe, Lindau) On July 2, 1985, the European Space Agency launched the Giotto space probe to get a close-up look at Halley's Comet.