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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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How big is the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS? Does it pose any danger to Earth? Here's what we know about the newly discovered celestial objectThe third interstellar object detected has been named 3I/ATLAS and was discovered on July 1 from Chile. Astronomers from the ...
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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,” ...
It’s officially the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system and poses no threat to Earth.
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