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Comet collisions and a rubber-duck world on Astrum Extra

The channel's only new upload gathers Deep Impact, 3I/ATLAS and Rosetta into an extended Astrum compilation.

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The Most Extraordinary Images We’ve Ever Taken of a Comet

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0:58Earlier comet flybys left unanswered questions about what lay beneath their surfaces.
7:13Deep Impact's collision with Tempel 1 throws up dust that temporarily obscures the flyby camera's view.
11:05The compilation turns to interstellar visitors, introducing 3I/ATLAS after 'Oumuamua and Borisov.
30:37An archive Astrum segment follows Rosetta and Philae's exploration of comet 67P.
39:18The water's deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio differs markedly from Earth's oceans, complicating ideas about their cometary origins.

NASA deliberately crashing a spacecraft into a comet makes quite an opening for Astrum Extra's latest compilation. The impact throws up so much dust that the camera watching from the flyby spacecraft temporarily loses its view. Getting beneath a comet's surface turns out to make seeing it rather harder.

"The Most Extraordinary Images We've Ever Taken of a Comet" has reached roughly 110,000 views. Narrated by Astrum creator Alex McColgan, it brings together earlier documentaries rather than presenting a single new mission report. Deep Impact's encounter with Tempel 1 gives way to interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS, then Rosetta and Philae's investigation of the double-lobed, rubber-duck-shaped comet 67P.

That last section gets beyond the memorable silhouette: fractured terrain, organic compounds and water chemistry all become clues to the comet's history. In the comments, viewers pick out the reasoning behind Deep Impact's copper impactor and the distinction between observing material around a comet and probing what lies inside it.

The new film isn't the channel's busiest upload right now. "The Most Terrifying Things We Detected In Space", with its eerie space sounds and black holes, is drawing more than four times as many daily views. The gas-giant compilation and an older Perseverance collection are also finding larger daily audiences than the comet film.

Astrum Extra added a thousand subscribers over the week, while its current daily viewing is below its usual level. Even so, its weekly views were the highest among the nearby science channels, with Made Vision also drawing a substantial audience. Here, the extended Astrum catalogue remains a bigger part of the viewing story than the single new arrival.

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What viewers say

The copper detail is my favourite part of Deep Impact — the roughly 370 kg impactor was built largely of copper specifically so its own vaporised material would not confuse the spectrometers reading native comet material in the plume. Hitting Tempel 1 at over 10 km/s on the Fourth of July was dramatic, but the chemistry planning behind it was just as clever.
@CosmosDailySpaceSee it on YouTube
Putting the earlier comet flybys before Deep Impact gives the mission a clear purpose. The distinction between studying material around a comet and investigating its interior makes the engineering story more meaningful: each new approach was built around a question the earlier observations could not answer.
@gmantalkSee it on YouTube
Another reason to stay up past bedtime.
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This video is better than some movies.
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I appreciate the effort behind this.
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The videos drawing views on Astrum Extra right now

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The facts

Channel: Astrum Extra
Subscribers: 330,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days: 1,093,710
Videos published this week: 1
Video published: November 1, 2026
Video views so far: 109,974
Views on its first day: 52,500

The numbers

Here is Astrum Extra's week in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

1,093,710

404,647

215,936

178,686

133,190

123,012

116,044

61,748

57,037

subscribers

330,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

87,095,915

views per day

127,908

typical day: 165,108

first-day views of each video posted this week

The Most Extraordinary Images We’ve Eve…

52,500

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

399,000

397,000

395,000

335,000

330,000

299,000

288,000

259,000

257,000

As of November 8, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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