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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.
The newly discovered interstellar visitor is just the third of its kind and fascinates astronomers who hope to learn from it ...
NASA said the comet will make its closest approach to the sun in late October, scooting between the orbits of Mars and Earth -- but closer to the red planet than us at a safe 150 million miles (240 ...
It's too soon to know whether the object is a rocky asteroid or an icy comet, or how big and what shape it is.
The platform is using its technology allowing all to view the 3I/ATLAS live as it travels toward the Sun. This is accessible ...
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Confirmed! Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Indeed An Interstellar Visitor, Quite Different From Its PredecessorsComet 3I/ATLAS will get as close as 210 million kilometers (130 million miles) from the Sun, far beyond the orbit of Earth, ...
I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...
Classified as a comet, 3I/Atlas was first spotted on Tuesday by the NASA-funded ATLAS survey in Hawaii. Subsequent analysis ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has detected what could be only the third known object to enter our solar system from ...
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