For four months, social media has drawn skywatchers and lovers of galactic lure to a speck spotted in July.

A new visitor from beyond our solar system

University of Texas at Arlington Astrophysicist Levent Gurdemir said the visitor to our solar system probably originated from a disk around another star. It became known as 3I/Atlas.

"3I/Atlas, as much as we can tell so far, is a comet coming from interstellar comet coming from outside of the solar system," Gurdemir said.

According to NASA, an Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System in Chile reported the speeding object on July 1. NASA also noted that there are additional discoveries dating back to June 14. It was called "3I" because it is the third known interstellar object from outside of our solar system. The ATLAS comes from t

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