Comet, ATLAS and solar system
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The widely talked about Comet 3I/ATLAS will pass by the sun on Thursday, but it will be December before stargazers can get a glimpse of the object.
Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days. the second-fastest known.
Researchers rarely get a glimpse of an interstellar object up close like 3I-ATLAS, so they have jumped on the opportunity to learn about its composition, which can reveal how planet systems are made.
A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three dimensions.
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Astronomers Catch a Ring System Forming Around Chiron in Real Time
Although it's smaller than a planet, Chiron could be a natural laboratory for learning about how ring systems form, change, and behave, its wacky shenanigans informing research into the dynamics of rings around other objects, such as Quaoar, Haumea, and Chariklo.
The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.
A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and Earth. The authors dubbed it Planet Y.
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'The solar system on demand': HEO Robotics aims to push spacecraft imaging deep into the final frontier
"The national security establishment has already been doing this for five decades but thought that no one could replicate it, so they made it highly classified."