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NASA finds new interstellar comet passing through solar system
NASA has discovered a new interstellar comet that's currently located about 420 million miles away from Earth. The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile on Tuesday and confirmed it was a comet from another star system. The new interstellar comet's official name is 3I/ATLAS.
Image of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 taken in red light on a collision course with Jupiter. Its train of 21 icy fragments stretched across 710 thousand miles (1.1 million km) of space, or 3 times ...
The impending collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 All 21 Fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 as spotted by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in May 1994. The length spans 710,000 miles (1,140,000 ...
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The First Comet We Ever Saw Slam Into Jupiter May Have Left It With A New Ring - MSNA new hypothesis suggests that the breaking apart and eventual collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 – the first space rock ever directly observed hitting another Solar System body, Jupiter ...
For Jupiter — 11 times wider than our planet — this was a small impact event. Large collisions, like from Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1994, left dark splotches on the Jovian surface, including ...
Although the impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 seems like a once-in-a-lifetime event, impacts still occur at Jupiter. You might be lucky enough to catch one.
A new interstellar object, A11pl3Z, has been discovered in our solar system, marking the third such object to be observed. It was first discovered zipping near the sun this fall.
Jupiter Comet Impact. This recent collision is not the first time Jupiter has been a spectator to such dramatic events. The most famous collision occurred in 1994 when the comet ...
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