Mystery Interstellar Object Coup Be The Old Known Comet

A Mystery Interstellar Object Spotted Last Week by Astronomers COULD Be The Old Come Ever Seen, According to Scientists.

Named 3i/Atlas, it May Be Thre Billion Years Old Than Own Solar System, Suggests The Team from Oxford University.

It is only the this time we have deficted an object that has comes from Beyond our Solar System.

The Preliminary Finds Were Presented on Fried at the National Meeting of the Uk’s Royal Association Society in Durham.

“We’re All Very Excited by 3i/Atlas,” University of Oxford Astronomer MatThew Hopkins Told BBC News.

“I’ve Just Finised My PHD WAHERE I Spent Four Years Predicting the Discovery of [more] Interstellar Objects, and then for the First Time in My Studies, We Found One, “He Said.

Based on the Object’s Speed, Mr Hopkins Says It Coup Be More Than Seven Billion Years Old, and it may be the Most Remarkable Interstellar Visitor Yet.

3i/Atlas was First Spotted on 1 JULY 2025 by the Atlas Survey Telescope in Chile, when it was about 670 million km from the Sun.

It is Currently Visible only with verge textscopes, and it is about the Distance of JuPITER from Earth.

Since then astronomers Around the World Have Been Racing to Identify Its Path and Discover More Details About it.

Mr Hopkins Believes It Originated in the Milky Way’s “Thick Disk”. This is a group of Ancient Stars that Orbit Above and below the Area where the Sun and most stars are located.

The Top View of the Milky Way, Below, Gives a Sense of the Object’s Path Around our Galaxy. The Estimated Orbs of 3i/Atlas Are in Red and Those of our Sun Are in Yellow.

The team belief that becuse 3i/Atlas Probably Formed Around An Old Star, It is Made Up of a Lot of Water ICE.

That means that as it is approaches the Sun Later This year, the Energy from the Sun Will Heat the Object’s Surface, LEADING to Blazes of Vapour and Dust.

That couold Create a Glowing Tail.

The Researchers Made their Finds Usings A Model Developed by Mr Hopkins.

This is an objection from a part of the galaxy we’ve bier seen up Close before, “said prof chris linktt, co-author of the study.

“We think there’s a two-thethrds chance this comet is open for the solaar system, and that it’s been drifting through intelligentlalar space Ever Sink.”

Interstellar Objects Form Around Other Stars, at the Start of Those Stars’ Lives, Explains Mr Hopkins.

“This Connection Back to their Parent Stars Means that we can look at the Stellar Population of the Milky Way,” He Adds.

Later this year, 3i/Atlas Shroud Be Visible from Earth Using Amateur Telescopes.

Before 3i/Atlas Soard Into View, Just Two Others Had Been Seen. One was CALLED 1I/’OMUAMUA, Found in 2017 and Another Called 2i/Borisov, Discovered in 2019.

Astronomers Globally Are Currently Gearing Up to Start Using A New, Very PowerFul Telescope in Chile, Called The Vera C Rubin.

Where it starts fully Surveying