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Saturday Citations: Disproving string theory; interstellar comet arrives; lemurs age gracefully
Well, it's July 12, which means (a) the Steam Summer Sale is over and (b) it's really hot outside in the northeastern U.S.
Astronomy on MSN1d
July 11, 1801: Jean-Louis Pons finds his first comet
French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons made his first comet discovery, c/1801 N1. When he'd began his career in 1789 as a ...
Astronomers think newly discovered comet may be way older than the sun
After running a new kind of computer simulation, scientists believe the comet originated from a rarely seen corner of the ...
Comet from interstellar space discovered moving in our Solar System
Astronomers have discovered yet another alien visitor to the Solar System.
This interstellar comet may be a frozen relic from before the Sun
A newly discovered comet, 3I/ATLAS, may be the most ancient visitor ever detected, potentially older than our solar system itself. Unlike previous interstellar objects, this ice-rich comet seems to ...
Perplexity debuts Comet, a free AI browser (that currently costs $200)
Perplexity.ai has launched its own Comet browser to take on Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge and their respective search ...
Perplexity rips another page from the Google playbook with its own browser, Comet
Perplexity has released its own web browser called Comet, and it's clearly aimed at Google.
New interstellar comet will keep a safe distance from Earth, NASA says
NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that's wandered into our backyard. The space agency spotted the object with the ...