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Astro Bob: Rare interstellar comet pays a visit to our solar system
Based on the comet's brightness and current distance ā it's located just inside Jupiter's orbit ā scientists estimate its diameter at about 12 miles across. 3I/ATLAS is only the third known interstellar object to visit our neck of the woods.
Solar systems mostly keep to themselves. Whatās ours is ours and whatās not is not. Stars are simply too far from each ...
Hereās when youāll see the next full moon, comets constellations and more. Venus will shine its brightest in February. ..
Hereās when youāll see the next full moon, comets constellations and more. Venus will shine its brightest in February. Stars get a lot of attention for shining bright, but planets shine, too.
Spot overlapping meteor showers this month, along with the Moon sharing the sky with some of the brightest planets.
This fall we see the return of Saturn, Jupiter and Venus, and the possibility of a glimpse at a recently discovered comet. Fall officially began with the autumnal equinox at 8:43 a.m. Eastern time ...
A MYSTERIOUS cosmic object has been spotted zooming through our solar system ā and astronomers say it is only the third of ...
NASA has discovered the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system, but the icy snowball object poses ...
Image of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 taken in red light on a collision course with Jupiter. Its train of 21 icy fragments stretched across 710 thousand miles (1.1 million km) of space, or 3 times the ...
Weāll also get a chance to see a handful of comets, like C/2022 E2 (ATLAS) in the constellation Cassiopeia and Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, which orbits between Jupiter and Neptune.
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