Astronomers pursue the object that may come outside the solar system

Cape Canaveral, Florida (AP) – astronomers monitor an object that is accessible to us that may have hiked from another star system.

Scientists have discovered what could only be the third -famous interstellar object that our solar system is going through, the European Space Authority announced on Wednesday.

The harmless object is currently located near Jupiter hundreds of millions of kilometers (kilometers) and, according to scientists, does not move closer to the sun.

It is too early to know whether the object, which was initially referred to as A11PL3Z, is a rocky asteroid or an icy comet or how big and in what form it is. Further observations are required to confirm the origins. NASA said she monitored the situation.

The astrophysicist Josep Trigo-Rodriguez from the Institute of Space Sciences near Barcelona, ​​Spain, is of the opinion that it is an interlocking object that cuts through the solar system on its strange path and extreme speed book. It appreciates its size at around 40 kilometers by about 40 kilometers.

The first confirmed interstellar visitor was in 2017. It was called Oumuamua, Hawaiian for Scout, in honor of the observatory in Hawaii, which discovered him. The extended Oumuamua initially classified as an asteroid and has shown signs of a comet since then.

The second object that confirmed that it broke off from another star system into our own is 21/Borisov, which was discovered in 2019 and was considered a comet.

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