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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.

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Astronomers spot an interstellar object zipping through our solar system

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, speeding through our celestial neighborhood.

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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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Alpha Centauri Sending Stream of Objects Into Our Solar System, Scientists Propose

However, the odds of encountering one of these objects within the heart our solar system remain exceedingly low, with only a one-in-a-million chance that an interstellar visitor is located ...

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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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