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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.
It’s officially the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system and poses no threat to Earth.
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The comet was first reported on July 1 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey ...
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You can watch comet 3I/ATLAS live online tonight (July 3), thanks to the Virtual Telescope Project, which will livestream ...
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