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A Comet Blazing Through Our Solar System, Just 3rd Ever Seen

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Astronomers Spot Interstellar Visitor: a Comet Blazing Through Our Solar System, Just the Third Ever Seen

Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it is blazing through our cosmic cul-de-sac at truly awe-inspiring speeds between the main asteroid belt and Jupiter.

Smithsonian Magazine on MSN · 4d

A Rare Interstellar Object Is Blazing Through Our Solar System, Marking Only the Third Cosmic Visitor on Record

Astronomers have confirmed the third interstellar object on record is dashing through our solar system. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it appears to be a comet and is thought to have flown in from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, where the central region of the Milky Way lies.

Astronomers spot rare interstellar comet speeding through solar system

Astronomers have discovered a rare instance of a interstellar comet speeding through the solar system. The 3I/ATLAS was first spotted on July 1 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System telescope.

interstellar object, comet and solar system

Futurism on MSN · 6d

Mysterious Object Headed Into Our Solar System Is Coming From the Center of the Galaxy

Folks, it's official: the object that astronomers recently spotted blowing through the outer solar system came from interstellar space. Yesterday, the intriguing stranger was provisionally named A11pl3Z.

Mystery interstellar object could be oldest known comet

ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has obtained new images of the path, shown as a dotted line of lights, of 3I/Atlas, an interstellar object discovered last week A mystery interstellar object spotted last week by astronomers could be the oldest comet ever seen,

Science News · 18h

A newly discovered interstellar object might predate the solar system

I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.

New Scientist7d

Meteorite causes rethink of how and when our solar system formed

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

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It Came From Outside Our Solar System, and It Looks Like a Comet

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

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When Theia struck Earth, it helped set the stage for life to appear

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

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What are the chances of Earth being hit by a big asteroid?

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

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NASA Shares First Complete View of Unusual Peanut-Shaped Asteroid Donaldjohanson

NASA's Lucy mission captured the highest resolution image yet of Donaldjohanson, the uniquely shaped asteroid.

Impact That Gave Us a Moon Could Explain Why Earth Now Has Life

How did Earth, alone among the Solar System's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

We might be wrong about how our solar system formed

A meteorite, Northwest Africa 12264, is questioning the established timeline of our solar system's formation, suggesting ...

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NASA's Lucy Probe Sends First Full View Picture Of Main-Belt Asteroid Donaldjohanson

The probe's first encounter will be with the asteroid Eurybates in August 2027. According to NASA, Lucy will conduct four ...

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