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Fascinating! 🩷

With RUBIN up and running, I wonder how many more of these we'll detect.

Glitch in the link. For some reason, if you don't @ the name, the machines get confused. So, it's necessary to say either @astrafoxen.bsky.social or bsky.app/profile/astr....

thank you

youtu.be/VAZky1kGNF8?...

Cool

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And the Republicans are slashing NASA budgets.

It's not gravitationally bound to the Sun. Capturing something coming from outside of the solar system is actually nearly impossible.

Will we get to see it naked eye or camera?

For all we know, it could be some kind of interstellar Greyhound bus going by... It would be interesting to know what kind of forces propelled it in our direction to begin with. Big bada boom somewhere out there.

Coooooool!

Can we make a stop here at Earth?

Hmm,,It might be the head of my sledge hammer, last seen over my neighbor's chimney,on course for Venus,,,,

cool! thanks! : )

Sorry no attack, just tongue in cheek poking fun at the whole world.

Wow! That is so cool! TY!

Incredible. Imagine how long it has been traveling and from what solar system it started.

With observations of NEA orbits getting more precise it's been a while since we had an Apophis-style "scare." I haven't seen the report you're talking about, but I do wish science editors would use cool discoveries like this less as clickbait and more as an opportunity for actual science education.

So it left home when we were still figuring out how seeds worked, roughly speaking.

*waves at it*

Talk from Friday at #Socialism2025: “Reclaiming the Future: Outer Space as a Site of Organizing and Imagination” with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein and Lucian Walkowicz www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0YQ...

3I/ATLAS isn’t a very good name. How about Comet Ras or maybe Comet Thavas? Those have a much nicer ring to them. (Seriously, congrats!!)

INTERSTELLAR

Wow

Hasn't collided with any object yet. Space is pretty empty. That's moving fast.

Thank you for the view!

That's #3 & counting!

Are you sure it's a comet? Could it not also be a spaceship with Aliens on board searching for intelligent life forms in the universe? Sadly, on that blue planet they could not detect any, so they just go on to Proxima Centauri b.

Thanks. I thought it was Elon leaving for Mars.

Nice. Booking it, has someplace to astrophysically be

I wish I understood better how you figure out it's not from our solar system. Is it just speed and course or something else.

So very cool

Comet is booking it through the system like he knows immigrants are being hunted.

she be zooming

freakin' 130,000 mph holy hell 😂

It seems morbidly poetic.

Cool

People will believe u

And humans figured all that out from seeing a short part of its trajectory that’s millions of miles away… for all our faults, we are an accomplished species!

it’s so fast it’s path is barely even deflated by the sun

Bobiverse

still haven't been able to figure out what constellation it's in

💫💫💫

The Interstellar Insurance agency would raise rates as they would say we are due to get hit, after not having a major hit for many millennia.

36 miles per second=129,600 MPH. Speed of a bullet, up to 2700 miles per hour. Will Miss Earth by 150million miles. science.nasa.gov/solar-system...

I wish I knew the mass of this object so I could calculate the potential kinetic energy. Anyone care to guess?

Can we please direct it to strike the WH?

It escaped its original star & is streaking through the universe now? Cool.

interstellar jumper :-)

The fuck is a "mile"

Additional fun fact: If something on Earth could go at 68 km/s, it would entirely circumnavigate it in less than 10 minutes.

Only heard about this yesterday, and I'm already seeing people post about it. What a time to be alive, and also, look at that baby go (at an astonishing speed of 129742.3 MPH).

So it’s moving almost as fast as Josh Hawley on Jan 6th 21?

I would like to be on board 🫡

Wow. 0.000193467c. That’s FAST.

Looks illegal to me. I’m reporting it to ICE.

That's awesome!!

😳😱

This is so cool. Thanks!

👀👀

58 km/s is hyperbolic excess speed, not the speed which is moving at relative to the Sun (that one is bigger).

That thing got flang from far far away

Cool!!!!

Hi, I’m interested in the statement that it formed around another star. Is it unlikely that comets might form anywhere else, such as in cold dust or gas clouds? I’ve never thought about it until seeing your post.

It's really cool that you could publish a pic!! Usually it's just sensor data estimates =D So this is a truly interstellar object, traveling in our proximity? (not a UFO, it's just a rock). but given it's speed and trajectory, it's not from our solar system!