Mega Comet Arriving From the Oort Cloud Is 85 Miles Wide0
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- March 4, 2022
Bernardinelli-Bernstein is officially the largest comet ever discovered, according to updated observations of the inbound object.
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Study: Interstellar Visitors Outnumber Solar System Objects in Oort Cloud0
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- August 27, 2021
The recent detection of 2I/Borisov, the first known interstellar comet to visit our Solar System, implies that interstellar objects outnumber the non-interstellar ones in the Oort Cloud, whereas the reverse is true near the Sun due to the stronger gravitational focusing of bound objects, according to a new paper authored by Harvard & Smithsonian’s Center for Astrophysics astronomers Amir Siraj and Avi Loeb.
The Asteroids Might Remember a Forgotten Giant Planet0
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- December 20, 2019
We have much to learn from the rocks of the asteroid belt.
Astronomers See Stars Slinging Comets at Earth for the First Time0
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- December 6, 2019
Stars and comets make unlikely dance partners. Their gravitational partnership is one that astronomers have long suspected but have never seen — until now. For the first time, a Polish group has identified two nearby stars that seem to have plucked up their icy partners, swinging them into orbits around our sun.
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