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A third visitor from another star is hurtling through the solar system

The interstellar comet will whip past Mars

three interstellar objects ‘Oumuamua (left), 2I/Borisov (center) and 3I/ATLAS (right)

Only three known interstellar objects have been detected in the solar system to date: ‘Oumuamua (left), 2I/Borisov (center) and 3I/ATLAS (right).

Alan Fitzsimmons/NASA, ESA; D. Jewitt/UCLA; David Rankin, Saguaro Observatory

By Celina Zhao

For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.