New Delhi: A mysterious image streaked over Delhi-NCR, lighting up the skies, in the dead of night. The surprising incident occurred in the intervening night of Friday and Saturday, at around 1.20 am, when the mysterious light was witnessed over the Delhi-NCR. The incident has stirred speculations amongst onlookers and scientists alike. Many have labelled the enigmatic occurrence as either …
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Astronomers have been fascinated after spotting an object earlier this year that came from interstellar space as is now hurtling through our inner solar system. Since then, they’ve been using powerful telescopes to study the mysterious object, trying to understand its unusual composition and exact origins. Most agree that it’s probably a comet, albeit an unusual one, though at least one …
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heic2511 — Science Release 18 September 2025 In our nearby stellar neighbourhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ultraviolet capability, only the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope could identify that this meal is taking place. The stellar remnant is a white dwarf about half the mass of our Sun, but that is …
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Astronomers have obtained new images of the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS that reveal a new feature: the fastest comet ever observed has now grown a tail. The new observations add to the growing body of evidence that supports 3I/ATLAS’s identity as an interstellar comet, amid speculations that include whether the object could represent a probe or other technological artifact produced …
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NASA has responded to claims – popularized by Harvard professor Avi Loeb – that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is a spacecraft sent to the Solar System by an advanced alien civilization. On July 1, 2025, astronomers spotted an object moving through the Solar System at nearly twice the velocity of previous interstellar visitors ‘Oumuamua and Comet Borisov. The object, which …
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Ever since a mysterious interstellar object, since dubbed 3I/ATLAS, was first spotted screaming into our solar system this year, famed Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has been raising the possibility that the interstellar interloper is an “extraterrestrial artifact” that was sent to us by an intelligent alien race. Researchers have broadly come to the consensus that 3I/ATLAS is a comet. Most …
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Ever since a mysterious interstellar object, since dubbed 3I/ATLAS, was first spotted screaming into our solar system this year, famed Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has been raising the possibility that the interstellar interloper is an “extraterrestrial artifact” that was sent to us by an intelligent alien race. Researchers have broadly come to the consensus that 3I/ATLAS is a comet. Most …
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Everything we know about interstellar object 3I/Atlas: Size, speed, origin, arrival, and alien speculations explained WION Explaining the Anomalous Anti-Tail of 3I/ATLAS Avi Loeb – Medium Ready for the next ‘Oumuamua: Launching flyby missions to visiting interstellar comets is ‘feasible and affordable,’ study says Space Brand new image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS shows it’s becoming more active and getting longer as it approaches …
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The latest images of comet 3I/ATLAS are in, delivering a glorious view of the interstellar object’s burgeoning tail, courtesy of NOIRLab’s powerful Gemini South telescope. This bodes well for astronomers keen to see the emergence of long, well-defined cometary tails as 3I/ATLAS shimmies towards its closest approach to the Sun, or perihelion – a rendezvous calculated to occur around 29 …
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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of interstellar comet ‘Oumuamua. | Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Olmsted and F. Summers (STScI) The first interstellar object to visit the solar system may have been a fragment of an icy exoplanet, research suggests. When 1I/’Oumuamua was first spotted in …
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