NASA has discovered a new intersteller comet that is currently located about 420 million miles from the Earth.
The Space Agency on Tuesday witnessed a quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile and confirmed that it was a comet from another star system. The official name of the new intersteller comate is 3i/Atlas.
It is officially a third known intersteller object to pass through our solar system, and it is no threat to the Earth. The other two were intersteller objects 2i/Borisov, reported in 2019And OUMUAMUA in 2017,
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Paul Chodas, director of NASA’s Center for Earth Object Studies, said on Thursday, “These things take millions of years to move from a stellar neighborhood to another, so this has been traveling in space for hundreds of millions of years, even for billions of years,” We don’t know, and so we can’t guess which star it has come from. “
The latest visitor is out of Jupiter, 416 million miles from the Sun, and thus bang in 37 miles per second.
NASA stated that the comet will create its nearest view to the Sun in late October, scooters between Mars and Earth’s orcies – but about 150 million miles of red planet compared to Earth.
Astronomers around the world are monitoring icy snowballs which are officially designated as 3i/Atlas to determine their size and size. Chodas reported that the Associated Press has made more than 100 observations since its discovery, with the initial report of a tail and a cloud of gas and dust around the comet’s nucleus.
NASA stated that 3i/Atlas should appear for telescopes through September, but then it would pass very close to the sun to see. It is expected to reopened on the other side of the Sun by the beginning of December, allows renewed observations,
Depending on its brightness, the comet seems to be larger than the first two intersteller interloppers, possibly several miles, Chodas said. It is coming fast, also, from a different direction, and while its home star is unknown, scientists suspect that it was close to the center of our Milky Way Galaxy.
Chodas said, “We have been hoping to look at the intersteller objects for decades, clearly, and finally we have been watching them.” “A visitor of another solar system, even if it is natural – it is not artificial, not excited because some people do … it’s just very exciting.”
