- Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov is packed with carbon monoxide, making it a real weirdo when compared to comets from our solar system.
- Scientists using high-powered telescopes observed the comet’s emissions and found carbon monoxide as well as hydrogen cyanide.
- Future observations of new interstellar comets will be the only way to determine how unique 2I/Borisov truly is.
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When an amateur astronomer spotted what appeared to be only the second interstellar object ever observed by mankind, it was an incredibly big deal. The object, later confirmed to be a comet and named 2I/Borisov, definitely originated from outside of our solar system, and researchers have been studying it for months.
Now, after observation campaigns from both the Hubble Space Telescope and Chile’s Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), scientists have enough data to begin to describe what the comet is made of, and perhaps even offer us some hints as to its origins.
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