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A rare celestial visitor from beyond our solar system is here now

There's a new interstellar comet in the neighborhood! Known as 3I/ATLAS, this comet poses no threat to Earth – but it does provide a rare opportunity to study an object that originated outside of our solar system: https://t.co/7ihCiHi91t pic.twitter.com/2XT3NRyCOz

Big Island Now · 6h

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.

Live Science on MSN · 3d

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.

New Scientist2d

Meteorite causes rethink of how and when our solar system formed

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

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A comet from an entirely different solar system is flying through ours, NASA says

Officially named 3I/ATLAS, the comet was confirmed as having originated outside of Earth's solar system on July 3, according ...

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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It Came From Outside Our Solar System, and It Looks Like a Comet

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

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