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Robert Lea

Astronomers say new interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is 'very likely to be the oldest comet we have ever seen'

An illustration of 3I/Atlas shedding material as it passes close to the sun.

The recently discovered interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS may be one of the oldest comets ever seen by humanity.

The object was already exciting to astronomers as only the third space object seen entering the solar system from beyond its limits, the other two being 1I/'Oumuamua seen in 2017 and 2I/Borisov detected in 2019.

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