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NASA finds new interstellar comet passing through solar system

NASA has discovered a new interstellar comet that's currently located about 420 million miles away from Earth. The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile on Tuesday and confirmed it was a comet from another star system. The new interstellar comet's official name is 3I/ATLAS.

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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.

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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.

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NASA spots a new comet flying in from a distant star system

The newly discovered interstellar visitor is just the third of its kind and fascinates astronomers who hope to learn from it ...

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NASA discovers third interstellar comet

July 3 (UPI) -- NASA discovered the third interstellar comet through a survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile. The ...

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NASA warns of giant interstellar comet of unknown origin crossing the solar system

A comet the size of Manhattan has been detected hurtling through the solar system, marking only the third time an ...

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New Horizons images enable first test of interstellar navigation

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

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