The mysterious interstellary facility was observed last week astronomers could be the oldest of Combission ever seen, according to scientists.
Called 3i / Atlas, it can be three billion years older than our solar system, suggests a team from Oxford University.
Only the third time we discovered an object that came beyond our solar system.
Preliminary findings were presented on Friday at the National Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in Great Britain in Durham.
“We are all very excited 3i / atlas,” said the University of Oxford Astronomer Matthew Hopkins said BBC News said. He just finished doctoral studies when the subject was discovered.
He says it could be more than seven billion years, and it can still be the most famous interstellar visitor.
3i / Atlas was noticed for the first time. July 2025. year atlas a surveyed telescope in Chile, when there were about 670 million KM from the sun.
Since then, astronomers around the world raced to identify their way and discover more detail about it.
Mr. Hopkins believes that the “thick disk” of a mill disk “was created. This is a group of ancient stars that is an orbit above and below the sun and most stars located.
The team believes that, because 3i / atlas is probably formed around the old star, it consists of a lot of water ice.
This means that as close to the sun later this year, the energy of the sun will heat the surface of the building, which led to the blue steam and dust.
It could create a glowing tail.
Researchers have discovered their findings using a model that has developed MR Hopkins.
“This is an object from a part of the galaxy we have never seen before,” Professor Chris Lintott said, co-author of the study.
“We think there are two-thirds of the chance that this comet is older than the solar system and that they are floating through interview space ever since.
Later this year, 3i / atlas should be visible from the Earth using amateur telescopes.
Before 3i / Atlas, she grew, he saw only two others. One called 1i / ‘Oumuamua, which is in 2017. years, and the second floor 2i / Borisov, discovered in 2019. years.
Astronomers around the world are currently saved to start using a new, very powerful telescope in Chile, called faith C ruby.
When it starts to fully play the sky of the South Nightlife later this year, scientists expect to discover between 5 and 50 new interstells facilities.
