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If This Comet Is What We Think It Is, It’s Unlike Any Object Humanity Has Ever Seen
Comet 31/ATLAS, a rare interstellar object, may be 7 billion years old and could reveal secrets about the early Milky Way and ...
Gemini north observes comet 3I/ATLAS, the third-known interstellar object
Interstellar objects are visitors from solar systems beyond our own, and the third ever such object, known as 3I/ATLAS, has ...
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This comet may be older than our solar system
Most comets, including the well-known Halley's, loop through our solar system like cosmic time capsules that formed alongside ...
Harvard Physicist Claims New Interstellar Comet is Alien Probe
"The consequences, should the hypothesis turn out to be correct, could potentially be dire for humanity," said Avi Loeb.
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Telescope spies rare interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS zooming through our solar system (photos)
Given 3I/ATLAS' highly eccentric orbit, this will be its one and only visit to our solar system, as its trajectory does not ...
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Bernardinelli-Bernstein: The Biggest Comet In The Solar System Could Stretch From New York To Philadelphia
According to the team's measurements, the comet's nucleus is around a whopping 128 kilometers (80 miles) across, making it ...
Astronomers Spot a 7-Billion-Year-Old Comet From Beyond the Solar System
A newly discovered interstellar comet could be older than the Solar System, and scientists think it carries secrets from the dawn of the galaxy.
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'Interstellar visitor' 3I/ATLAS could be the oldest comet ever seen — and could grow a spectacular tail later this year
New simulations have narrowed down where the newly discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS likely came from, revealing it could be more than 3 billion years older than the solar system.