“The object’s aphelion—the farthest point on the orbit from the sun—is more than 1,600 times that of Earth’s orbit,” Institute for Advanced Study’s Sihao Cheng mentioned in a recent press release. As ...

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The extraordinary interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has remained a fascinating object of study for astronomers since it flew past ...