Just days ago, NASA dropped a batch of new images of a comet from an entirely different solar system that has for months been a source of public fascination and speculation.
The object, named 3I/ATLAS, is just the third comet to ever be discovered in Earth's cosmic neighborhood originating from elsewhere in the universe. The interstellar interloper, which is likely way older than Earth, has been hurtling through our solar system at dizzying speeds and will one day soon be gone forever.
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