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Surprising Secrets of 3I/ATLAS: What This Giant Interstellar Comet Reveals About Our Galaxy—And How Telescopes Caught It
How does a 15-kilometer-wide comet, moving at 152,000 miles per hour, slip into our solar system undetected until a global ...
An Interstellar Comet Is Here, and Its Age Is Mind-Bending
After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some ...
Comet believed to be 3 billion years older than our solar system
Scientists now say an interstellar comet discovered earlier this month could be one of the oldest that astronomers have ever ...
At 7 Billion Years Old, This Icy Interstellar Visitor Could Be Most Ancient Comet Ever
The study was recently presented at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting in Durham, England where researchers revealed that the comet may have originated from the Milky Way 's ...
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7 billion-year-old mysterious comet is the oldest known guest in our solar system
Researchers at Oxford have discovered that comet 3I/ATLAS may be over 7 billion years old, making it the oldest one we've ...
Mysterious Manhattan-sized interstellar comet spotted blasting through solar system: NASA
These things take millions of years to go from one stellar neighborhood to another, so this thing has likely been traveling ...