Astronomers Have Traced Our New Interstellar Comet's Origin, and It's a First

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11 points speckx | 2 comments | 10 Jul 25 16:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.869s | source
1. ahazred8ta ◴[11 Jul 25 01:51 UTC] No.44527683[source]▶
3i came from a Thick Disk star (one of the ones that bobs way up and way down) and has probably been in interstellar space for over 10 billion years. It's older than we are.