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The Economist· 2025-07-11 21:40
A newly discovered interstellar object offers a chance to test some early theories of interstellar-object-ology, a fledgling branch of astronomy (though one in need of a snappier name) https://t.co/XyvFuVX4ff ...
Planetary defense system spots interstellar object
NBC News· 2025-07-04 02:30
Hey, welcome back. Tonight on the future of everything, interstellar. How amazing is it that we humans have a word for something that literally flies between stars.And so far, we've only known about two interstellar visitors in our recorded history. That is until now because astronomers have just detected another something out there blazing into our solar system at like 152,000 m an hour. And unlike Earth and the rest of the planets that are locked into orbit, this thing is not going to be here for very lon ...