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New Interstellar Object Comet 3I/ATLAS—What We Know So Far as It Zips through the Solar System
Late in the evening on July 1, a telescope in Chile that is part of the global, NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) picked up on a new moving dot in the sky, an object traveling past the orbit of Jupiter.
NASA has identified an interstellar comet, named 3I/ATLAS, hurtling towards us at 200,000 km/h. It should be visible by telescopes through September and reappear in December.
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