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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.
Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...
For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.
“It’s completely plausible for our solar system to have captured such an Oort cloud planet,” says Nathan Kaib, a co-author on the new work and an astronomer at the Planetary Science Institute.
Supernovae are one SLR source, which might mean our Solar System dodged a supernova, although there are other ways they can form. SLRs from the interstellar medium might already be floating around ...
Our solar system may not be as isolated as we once thought. According to a new study, more than 1 million interstellar objects could be lurking in the outer reaches of our cosmic neighborhood ...
S omething unusual is moving through our solar system -a fast, faint object now confirmed to have originated beyond it.
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