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Older than the sun? Jaw-dropping secrets of 3I/ATLAS

Could a comet passing through the inner solar system be older than the Sun itself? That question sits at the center of the ...
How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of ...
At the ragged frontier where the Sun’s influence gives way to the galaxy, a decades‑old spacecraft has stumbled into a ...
PUNCH Spacecraft Show First Complete Images Of Sun’s Corona And Solar Wind Together In A Nutshell Four suitcase-sized ...
The third known visitor from interstellar space, comet 3I/ATLAS, is putting on a show that plays out in high‑energy light instead of visible fireworks. As it barrels through the inner solar system, ...