The comet formed in a cold and distant part of the early Milky Way up to 12 billion years ago, potentially putting it just under 2 billion years the age of the universe. When you purchase through ...
Interstellar objects move too fast and arrive too rarely for astronomy to rely on a single instrument or a single kind of light. When comet 3I/ATLAS was first reported on July 1, 2025, observatories ...