NASA spots a new comet flying in from a distant star system

NPR ^ | July 3, 20251:15 PM ET | Nell Greenfieldboyce

[BipolarBob]

“I’m just dropping in to see what condition my condition is in”.

[6ppc]

The Roman’s always do thing in threes!

[6ppc]

Roman’s = Ramans. Damn autocorrect!

[Red Badger]

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Have Musk go capture some of it and return the samples to earth!

[Red Badger]

It’s a Vulcan Survey Ship......................

[TheDon]

This appears to happen quite regularly.

[linMcHlp]

"It's only the third time scientists have discovered this kind of visitor from outside our solar system. The first two, 'Oumuamua and Comet Borisov"

"Oxford astrophysicist Chris Lintott recently told NPR, saying he and most other researchers really hadn't given much thought to interstellar objects until the discovery of the first one in 2017"

[daku]

It’s a shame we don’t have something prepared to land on it and treat it as a Voyager type program

[TangoLimaSierra]

It’s the Vogons at last.

[Telepathic Intruder]

It might have been floating through interstellar space for the age of the universe. Likely it has never come as close to a star as it will get the sun. If it’s mostly made out of something like frozen nitrogen, a lot of it will vaporize. That might be quite a show.

[Zathras]

Zathras knows what it is but Zathras not telling.

[bankwalker]

Lucifer’s Hammer?

[MtnClimber]

Other solar systems taking pot shots at Erft.

[Deaf Smith]

Bugs?

[Lazamataz]

"This is like our chance to randomly sample what's going on in the rest of the galaxy," astrophysicist Chris Lintott

Like, wow, that's, like, so bitchin', like, oh my GAWD that is, like, totally fresh!

[Lazamataz]

Zathras knows what it is but Zathras not telling.

Zathras speaks of himself in the third person. Lazamataz hates people who refer to themselves in the third person.

[MtnClimber]

It could be a cosmic mosquito.

[Lazamataz]

What if it turns out it is made up of old 1970’s soda-can pop tops?