This summer, NASA confirmed that a mysterious object racing through the solar system came from interstellar space, only the third of its kind to be discovered.

News of the discovery was announced on July 1, based on data collected by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), which continually monitors the sky from observatories in Hawaii, Chile and South Africa.

The object was zipping through our solar system at the breakneck speed of 152,000 miles per hour or about twice as fast as the Earth orbits the sun, and was on an open, hyperbolic trajectory, unlike the planets, asteroids and comets in our solar system which orbit the sun in closed elliptical loops.

This suggested that 3I/ATLAS, as it was designated, originated far from the sun’s gravitational influence. After n

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