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Rare find: interstellar visitor seen blazing through our Solar System
The object gained an official name, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, on Wednesday. Moving at a record-setting speed for an interstellar visitor, it is travelling along a curve but not in a closed loop – confirmation of its origins outside the Solar System. It will zoom past our Sun without being captured by its gravity.
Scientists tracking ‘interstellar’ object that has come to us from another solar system - Scientists are using telescopes ...
An object from another star has been seen entering the solar system at high speed, and is expected to whip around the sun in ...
This week, astronomers spotted the third known interstellar visitor to our Solar System. First detected by the Asteroid ...
Comet or asteroid heading for the Sun is only the third time an interstellar object has been spotted inside our group of ...
Astronomers have confirmed the discovery of an "interstellar object" named 3I/Atlas passing through the inner solar system.
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New Horizons images enable first test of interstellar navigationBy looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...
The Solar Orbiter space mission, a joint initiative of the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, has for the first time ...
A mysterious object the size of Manhattan, originating from outside our Solar System, has been spotted by astronomers.
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