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Confirmed: A Rare Interstellar Object Is Passing Through Our Solar System
Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.
The sun: Facts about the bright star at the center of the solar system
How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) ...
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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 ...
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UH telescope detects solar system’s third known interstellar visitor
The detection of 3I/ATLAS marks our solar system’s third time saying aloha to an interstellar visitor, following the ...
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NASA confirms that mysterious object shooting through the solar system is an 'interstellar visitor' — and it has a new name
Experts have confirmed that the mysterious object hurtling towards us, previously dubbed A11pl3Z, is an "interstellar object.
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The Solar System’s Future: What Earth and Other Planets Will Experience When the Sun Dies
The Sun, our life-giving star, is slowly dying. In about 5 billion years, it will exhaust its fuel and transform into a red giant, altering the solar system forever. But long before that, the Sun’s ...
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 ...
Mystery 12-mile-wide ‘fuzzy object with a tail’ spotted blazing through our solar system at 37 miles a SECOND, Nasa says
A MYSTERIOUS cosmic object has been spotted zooming through our solar system – and astronomers say it is only the third of ...
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Does the sun move in the solar system? | Space
The solar system orbits around the center of the Milky Way — our galaxy — but even within the frame of the solar system, the sun is not exactly static because of the gravitational ...
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Our solar system: The sun information and facts - National Geographic
At about 864,000 miles (1.4 million kilometers) wide, the sun is 109 times wider than Earth, and it accounts for more than 99.8 percent of the solar system's total mass.
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Our Solar System possibly survived a supernova because of how the Sun formed
Our Solar System possibly survived a supernova because of how the Sun formed The gas that produce stars also cushion them from the blast of nearby supernovae.
NASA discovers rare interstellar comet travelling from the unknown, scientists are excited: What we know so far
Comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1. “It came from outside our solar system and right now, it's inside the orbit of ...