Kissed by a Visitor from Deep, Deep Space

It was first spotted as a dot in July. It's an ice-rich body. It originates from far outside our Solar System. And it’s believed to be 7 billion years old—3 billion years older than the Sun! Say hello to 3I/ATLAS, the oldest comet ever observed by human eyes.

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Per an article by freelance science journalist Nicola Jones in the journal