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3I/ATLAS May Be Oldest Comet Ever Seen, Astronomers Say


3I/ATLAS -- the second interstellar comet ever spotted in our cosmic neighborhood -- may predate our Solar System by more than 3 billion years, according to a research team led by University of Oxford astronomer Matthew Hopkins.

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