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Webinar: Interstellar Comets – Visitors from another Solar System

The second ISO, 2I/Borisov, was discovered less than 2 years after the first, much sooner than expected, and has characteristics which are very different from ...

An Interstellar Visitor Had a Sad Story to Tell - The Atlantic

In 2019, Gennady Borisov, an amateur astronomer in Crimea, discovered his seventh comet. This icy object wasn't like the others Borisov had found.

Hawaiian telescope captures new view of visiting interstellar comet

Scientists have captured a close-up view of the ancient alien comet 2I/Borisov, which is currently careening through our solar system before it shoots back out ...

Interstellar Comet Shed Water As It Visited Solar System – LPIB

Hubble Space Telescope image of the interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov. Hubble photographed the comet at a distance of approximately 418 million kilomters (260 ...

Hubble Observes First Confirmed Interstellar Comet - Newswise

Hubble has taken the sharpest view to date of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov whose speed and trajectory indicate it has come from beyond our ...

Mysterious comet of interstellar origin spotted zooming toward Earth

The massive space rock — which boasts the cosmically dull official name of C/2019 Q4 — was first discovered by an amateur stargazer from the ...

An interstellar comet looks to be heading our way : r/space - Reddit

'Oumuamua (if you consider that to be a comet) came much closer. This one is on the other side of the sun from Earth and won't get closer than ...

Gemini Telescope Captures Multicolor Image Of Visiting Interstellar ...

The first-ever recorded comet to visit our solar system from interstellar space has been captured in vivid multicolor using a spectrograph ...

Interstellar comet, visiting from deep space, is stranger than we ...

An interstellar comet roaming our solar system is unlike any other. Scientists studying the comet, Borisov, say that it's composite material ...

ALMA reveals unusual composition of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov

The ALMA observations from a team of international scientists led by Martin Cordiner and Stefanie Milam revealed that the gas coming out of the ...

Astronomers get the best look at interstellar comet that fits right in ...

It's only the second observed “interloper” to cross into our solar system, but interstellar comet 21/Borisov looks incredibly similar to our ...

ALMA Reveals Unusual Composition of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov

A galactic visitor entered our solar system last year – interstellar comet 2I/Borisov. When astronomers pointed the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter ...

Could the solar system be teeming with interstellar objects? We'll ...

Astronomy professor Ho named Packard Fellow · View all news. comet 'Oumuamua An artist's depiction of the interstellar comet 'Oumuamua, as it ...

The interstellar comet Borisov was shiny and new when it passed ...

2/I Borisov was discovered by amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov in late August 2019, and it didn't take long before it was found to be very ...

When stars get too close to each other, they cast out interstellar ...

Less than two years later, amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov found a second interstellar object: a comet-like body that began to disintegrate ...

This Is Our Best Glimpse Yet of an Interstellar Comet - Gizmodo

Interstellar comet Borisov originated a long time ago in a solar system far, far away, and it likely began its venture into deep space after ...

We may have spotted an interstellar comet flying towards Earth

Astronomers have spotted a comet that appears to have come from outside our solar system, which would make it the second interstellar object we've detected.

New image offers close-up view of interstellar comet | YaleNews

Researchers believe the comet formed in a solar system beyond ours and was ejected into interstellar space as a consequence of a near-collision ...

Interstellar comet with a familiar look - EurekAlert!

image: Two-color composite image of comet 2I/Borisov captured by the Gemini North telescope on 10 September 2019.

Comet is an interstellar visitor from outer space with a familiar look

The comet is only the second interstellar comet ever detected in our solar system and the first that looks like a traditional comet.