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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.

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NASA confirms that mysterious object shooting through the solar system is an 'interstellar visitor' — and it has a new name

Experts have confirmed that the mysterious object hurtling towards us, previously dubbed A11pl3Z, is an "interstellar object." The cosmic interloper, officially named 3I/ATLAS, is only the third of its kind ever seen — and will shoot past Earth later this year.

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UH telescope detects solar system’s third known interstellar visitor

The detection of 3I/ATLAS marks our solar system’s third time saying aloha to an interstellar visitor, following the discoveries of ʻOumuamua in 2017 and comet 2I/Borisov in 2019.

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NASA Announces Just the Third-Ever Interstellar Visitor From the Larger Milky Way

NASA NASA has announced an exciting discovery hurtling through our solar system: an interstellar object. It’s a comet, but ...

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NASA discovers comet from another star system, only 3rd known

It’s officially the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system and poses no threat to Earth.

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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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 ...

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