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Interstellar visitor seen blazing through our Solar System

Chron on MSN · 4h

A rare celestial visitor from beyond our solar system is here now

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 deep space . For the latest and best from Chron, sign up for our daily newsletter here.

Science News · 1d

A third visitor from another star is hurtling through the solar system

For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system. First named A11pl3Z and now designated as 3I/ATLAS ,

Rare find: interstellar visitor seen blazing through our Solar System

Only the third known interstellar object to enter our Solar System will swing so close to Mars that it might be visible to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltec

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CBS News · 17h

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.

CNN on MSN · 18h

Astronomers spot an interstellar object zipping through our solar system

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, speeding through our celestial neighborhood.

Study Finds · 51m

Astronomers Have Spied An Interstellar Object Zooming Through The Solar System

The first interstellar object spotted in our Solar System was the cigar-shaped ‘Oumuamua, discovered in 2017 by the Pan-STARRS1 telescope in Hawaii. Scientists tracked it for 80 days before eventually confirming it came from interstellar space.

New Scientist4h

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 ...

1h

NASA warns of giant interstellar comet of unknown origin crossing the solar system

A comet the size of Manhattan has been detected hurtling through the solar system, marking only the third time an ...

New interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is hurtling through the solar system — and you can watch it live online today

You can watch comet 3I/ATLAS live online tonight (July 3), thanks to the Virtual Telescope Project, which will livestream ...

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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 ...

1d

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 ...

1don MSN

Astronomers track object that may have originated outside the solar system

Astrophysicist Josep Trigo-Rodriguez of the Institute of Space Sciences near Barcelona, Spain, believes it is an interstellar ...

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