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We have discovered two interstellar objects so far, ’Oumuamua and Comet 2I/Borisov. ’Oumuamua had no dust tail and a ...
The newest visitor is 416 million miles (670 million kilometers) from the sun, out near Jupiter. NASA said the comet will make its closest approach to the sun in October, scooting between the orbits ...
How do you find a comet that could pose a threat to Earth but hasn't passed our planet in the last 200 years or more? You look for its footprint. This is the basis of research led by Samantha ...
At the time, NASA noted that the comet reached its perihelion, or closest approach of the sun, on Monday at 7:30 a.m. ET. "Over the past few days, it has broken into chunks as it approached the ...
A newly discovered comet, called C/2025 F2 (SWAN), may have disintegrated. But the remnants are still visible.
This is just 0.5 percent of all the galaxies that the Rubin Observatory will collect during its Legacy Survey of Space and ...
The latter — a 0.5-meter Schmidt at the South African Astronomical Observatory in Sutherland — is the one that independently detected Comet C/2023 A3, on Feb. 22, 2023.
It was discovered in 2023 at Tsuchinshan Observatory in China and by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, telescope in South Africa, hence the comet’s name.
Bloomington residents can view a close-passing comet through the lens of a telescope at a public event at Kirkwood observatory Wednesday. According to NASA, the comet will only be about 26 ...
2024's best comet is nearing Earth and getting brighter. Here's how to see it in the sky, and when it will look its best. ... Tsuchinshan Observatory spotted it first, on January 9, ...