jballs@sh.itjust.works to Space@mander.xyzEnglish · 8 days agoAstronomers say new interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is 'very likely to be the oldest comet we have ever seen'www.space.comexternal-linkmessage-square4linkfedilinkarrow-up158arrow-down10
arrow-up158arrow-down1external-linkAstronomers say new interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is 'very likely to be the oldest comet we have ever seen'www.space.comjballs@sh.itjust.works to Space@mander.xyzEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square4linkfedilink
minus-squarejballs@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·8 days ago University of Oxford astronomer Matthew Hopkins is part of a team of scientists that think 3I/ATLAS, discovered on July 1, 2025 by the ATLAS survey telescope, is around 7 billion years old. I don’t know how I missed hearing about this until now!
I don’t know how I missed hearing about this until now!