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New Interstellar Object Comet 3I/ATLAS—What We Know So Far as It Zips through the Solar System
Late in the evening on July 1, a telescope in Chile that is part of the global, NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) picked up on a new moving dot in the sky, an object traveling past the orbit of Jupiter.
You can watch comet 3I/ATLAS live online tonight (July 3), thanks to the Virtual Telescope Project, which will livestream ...
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Astronomers race to learn more about third interstellar visitorNewfound interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be carrying pristine material from early in the Milky Way’s star-forming history.
Sometimes "the universe comes to us," writes the European Space Agency. For the third time since 2017, an interstellar object ...
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Third Interstellar Visitor 3I/ATLAS Blazes Through Solar System as Telescopes Race to Unravel Its SecretsSpotting a possible interstellar object is incredibly rare, and it’s exciting that our UH-operated system caught it,” ...
NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that’s wandered into our backyard. The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile earlier this week, and confirmed it was ...
It’s officially the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system and poses no threat to Earth.
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