Interstellar Comets Like Borisov May Not be All That Rare (IMAGE)

Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

Interstellar Comets Like Borisov May Not be All That Rare

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Detected in 2019, the Borisov comet was the first interstellar comet known to have passed through our solar system.

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Credit: NASA, ESA and D. Jewitt (UCLA)

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