The solar system's third interstellar visitor, 3I/ATLAS, is zooming by at 130,000 mph

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The solar system's third interstellar visitor, 3I/ATLAS, is zooming by at 130,000 mph NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.

Space

August 12, 20254:08 PM ET

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Jonaki Mehta

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Christopher Intagliata

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Ari Shapiro

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.

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