Washington, July 4 -- In a major celestial discovery, NASA has located a new interstellar comet that's currently located about 420 million miles (675 million km) away from Earth.
The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile on July 2 and confirmed it was a comet from another star system. The new interstellar comet's official name is 3I/ATLAS, reports CBS News.
The newly discovered comet is the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system, and has been said to pose no threat to Earth. The other two interstellar objects were 2I/Borisov, reported in 2019, and Oumuamua in 2017.
"These things take millions of years to go from one stellar neighbourhood to another, so this thing has likel...