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Rare find: interstellar visitor seen blazing through our Solar System
The object gained an official name, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, on Wednesday. Moving at a record-setting speed for an interstellar visitor, it is travelling along a curve but not in a closed loop – confirmation of its origins outside the Solar System. It will zoom past our Sun without being captured by its gravity.
Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...
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A Rare Interstellar Object Is Blazing Through Our Solar System, Marking Only the Third Cosmic Visitor on RecordAstronomers have confirmed the third interstellar object on record is dashing through our solar system. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it ...
For only the third time in recorded history, an interstellar object has crossed into our solar system, creating quite the ...
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.
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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A New Interstellar Visitor Illuminates the Power and Promise of Modern Sky SurveysIs the universe communicating with us through the messages of cosmic travelers? The latest find of 3I/ATLAS, an object ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN1d
7 billion-year-old mysterious comet is the oldest known guest in our solar systemIt’s a fantastic opportunity to test our model on something new and possibly ancient.” The scientist explained that the comet ...
A newly discovered comet, 3I/ATLAS, may be the most ancient visitor ever detected, potentially older than our solar system itself. Unlike previous interstellar objects, this ice-rich comet seems to ...
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