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CHILE, JUL 13 – 3I/ATLAS, possibly over 7 billion years old, is the third interstellar comet detected and offers insights into star and planet formation, scientists said.
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A mysterious interstellar object discovered last week by astronomers could be the oldest comet ever seen, according to scientists. Called 3I/ATLAS, it could be 3 billion years older than our own solar system, researchers from Oxford University maintain.As the BBC notes, preliminary results were presented on Friday at the National Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society of the United Kingdom, in the city of Durham."We are all very excited about…
A group of scientists from Oxford University reported that they had been able to locate a comet last week, perhaps the oldest of all known space objects.
3I/ATLAS: Interstellar object 'may be oldest comet ever seen' - Science Tech Updates
A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen—possibly predating our solar system by more than 3 billion years, researchers say. The “water ice-rich” visitor, named 3I/ATLAS, is only the third known object from beyond our solar system ever spotted in our cosmic neighborhood and the first to […] The post 3I/ATLAS: Interstellar object ‘may be oldest comet ever seen’ appeared first on Science Tech Upd…
Object 3I/ATLAS — a Comet or Something Else?
Is the new interloper in our solar system — 3I/ATLAS — a comet or something else? That’s an intriguing question posed by Avi Loeb, head of the Galileo Project, a founding director of Harvard University’s Black Hole Initiative, and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Never […]
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