3I/ATLAS Is Leaving the Solar System Forever — Here's How to Watch It Go

Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar visitor, is making its final exit from the solar system — and skywatchers ...

Why an interstellar comet has scientists excited

The comet could be older than our solar system. The comet is also distinct because nickel vapor was detected in the gas ...
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Visitors From Outside the Solar System Are Becoming the Norm, Third One on Its Way Here

In the entire history of space exploration, our species was only able to directly observe three celestial bodies from outside our own solar system coming into our back yard. They've all been ...
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First-Ever 3D Map Of Planet Outside Solar System Reveals Distant World’s Hot Spot And Cool Ring

“If you build a map at a wavelength that water absorbs, you’ll see the water deck in the atmosphere, whereas a wavelength that water does not absorb will probe deeper. If you put those together, you ...
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Comet Borisov misidentified as 3I/Atlas during close approach to Earth — scientists clear up the confusion

A rare sight in the night sky caused early confusion when Comet Borisov was wrongly identified as interstellar object ...
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Astronomers capture the birth of planets around a baby sun outside our solar system

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...
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NASA's Voyager Spacecraft Found A 30,000-50,000 Kelvin "Wall" At The Edge Of Our Solar System

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