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Mysterious Object Headed Into Our Solar System Is Coming From the Center of the Galaxy

Folks, it's official: the object that astronomers recently spotted blowing through the outer solar system came from interstellar space. Yesterday, the intriguing stranger was provisionally named A11pl3Z.

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NASA confirms that mysterious object shooting through the solar system is an 'interstellar visitor' — and it has a new name

Experts have confirmed that the mysterious object hurtling towards us, previously dubbed A11pl3Z, is an "interstellar object." The cosmic interloper, officially named 3I/ATLAS, is only the third of its kind ever seen — and will shoot past Earth later this year.

The Debrief · 2d

Astronomers Are Tracking a Massive New Interstellar Object That Just Entered Our Solar System

Astronomers have announced the discovery of A11pl3Z, a massive new interstellar object entering our solar system.

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Our Solar System May Have Captured A Number Of Interstellar Objects

The speed and trajectory of the object A/2017 U1 suggested that it did not come from our Solar System, and that it will leave our Solar System again. ‘Oumuamua, as it is now called, was our ...

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Could the solar system be teeming with interstellar objects? We'll soon find out (op-ed) - Space.com

Oumuamua could not have obtained its velocity from any known object in the Solar System. We have a complete census of objects big enough to do it within a volume out to 21 AU.

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Millions of new solar system objects to be found and 'filmed in technicolor' -- studies predict - ScienceDaily

Predictions of the LSST Solar System Yield: Near-Earth Objects, Main Belt Asteroids, Jupiter Trojans, and Trans-Neptunian Objects. The Astronomical Journal (submitted to arXiv) , 2025 DOI: ...

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Millions of new solar system objects to be found and 'filmed in technicolor' - studies predict

37,000 trans-Neptunian objects, residents of the distant Kuiper Belt — nearly 10 times the current census — shedding light on Neptune’s past migration and the outer solar system’s history.

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