Scientists are trying to learn everything that they can from the first interstellar asteroid they have ever observed crossing into our Solar System. Spotted less than two weeks ago, the object is now whizzing across the constellation Pisces and, in a couple of months, will be too faint and far away for even the largest telescopes to see.
“It’s fascinating,” says astronomer David Jewitt of the University of California, Los Angeles. “We are seeing a body from elsewhere in the Galaxy passing through our Solar System. It’s the first time we’ve seen such a thing.”
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