The Great Ongoing Space Exploration Thread

[LSLGuy]

@Fiendish_Astronaut

It’s official! An interstellar object is visiting our solar system

So it looks like a new interstellar object has been detected. I think we’re going to see a lot more of these now that detection technologies are progressing so quickly. This thing is moving FAST - the sun barely makes a dent on its trajectory.

There’s now a dedicated thread …

Third interstellar body discovered in our solar system

On July 1, the NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first reported observations of a comet that originated from interstellar space. Arriving from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, the interstellar comet has been officially named 3I/ATLAS. It is currently located about 420 million miles (670 million kilometers) away.