Nice article in the @economist.com about our interstellar visitor, including the coining of 'interstellar-object-ology' as a name for our nascent field: www.economist.com/science-and-...
Its appearance puts a new branch of astronomy to the test
Super article from the fabulous @georginarannard.bsky.social too 🥳🥳 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Scientists have been racing to discover the origins of 3I/Atlas since it was spotted last week.
Shameless plug for myself as well
www.newscientist.com/article/2487...
Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion years old, almost twice the age of our sun
Thank you Catherine! A fascinating story 😍
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