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3I/ATLAS: Distant Comet Visits Our Solar System
A NASA-funded telescope in Chile identified a comet from interstellar space on July 1, marking a significant astronomical ...
An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed.
NASA has discovered the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system, but the icy snowball object poses ...
Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, the comet poses no danger to Earth and will remain roughly 150 million miles away as it speeds by.
The newly discovered interstellar visitor is just the third of its kind and fascinates astronomers who hope to learn from it ...