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NASA finds new interstellar comet passing through solar system
NASA has discovered a new interstellar comet that's currently located about 420 million miles away from Earth. The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile on Tuesday and confirmed it was a comet from another star system. The new interstellar comet's official name is 3I/ATLAS.
You can watch comet 3I/ATLAS live online tonight (July 3), thanks to the Virtual Telescope Project, which will livestream ...
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Third Interstellar Visitor 3I/ATLAS Blazes Through Solar System as Telescopes Race to Unravel Its SecretsSpotting a possible interstellar object is incredibly rare, and it’s exciting that our UH-operated system caught it,” ...
Though 3I/ATLAS will never come close to Earth, its passage offers a rare chance to study material beyond our solar system with ground-based and orbital telescopes, before it accelerates back into ...
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Astronomers spot potential 'interstellar visitor' shooting through the solar system toward EarthAstronomers have spotted what they think might be an "interstellar object" hurtling through the solar system — and it's ...
NASA telescopes in Chile have discovered a comet from interstellar space, making its closest approach in October.
For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.
Astronomers are monitoring an object headed our way that may have wandered over from another star system. Scientists have ...
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