A few months back an amateur astronomer spotted something very special. It was a comet that, based on its trajectory and speed, had to have come from outside of our own solar system. It’s only the second time in history that scientists have spotted such an object, and astronomers scrambled to learn more about it.
Earlier this week, a team of astronomers from Yale spotted the comet, known as 2I/Borisov, from the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii. It’s our best look yet at the newest visitor to our solar system, and an important step toward learning more about the object’s alien origins.
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