Scientists discovered that a comet called 2I/Borisov surprisingly diverges from other comets in its composition. 2I/Borisov was only the second interstellar object ever detected passing through the solar system. Gas coming off 2I/Borisov contained high amounts of carbon monoxide suggesting 2I/Borisov formed in a very cold outer region of its home star system or around a star cooler than the Sun.
I much prefer stories like these to the media and politically charged articles. Please post more of these.
That's so cool! (no pun intended) . I wonder what else we will discover as time passes.
The more we look the more interesting things we find. Lots of stuff passes by all the time without humanity noticing just because we do not look for it. I would really like to have a series of space-based telescopes monitoring for this sort of stuff moving through the Solar system.
We know nothing.
Isn't this how the Final Fantasy movie started?
Tis a derelict space hulk slipping between warp translations....... Usually infested with Orcs or Tyranids....... Sometimes far worse....... Pray Terra has gone unnoticed.......
Space nerds are dumb and pretentious. No one should care until we have an amusement park on the moon
I bet it's a cluster of space-poop, lol. Jk but this is really an interesting find.
So what you're saying is it's from a long time ago in a place far far away
If two interstellar comets have visited our Solar System in such a short period of time then this implies that such events probably occur frequently and we just haven't been able to detect these interstellar visitors until now. Hopefully someday we send a probe, similar to Osiris-Rex to retrieve a sample from one of these. Imagine what we could learn from a surface sample taken from an object that formed around another star.