Mystery Intellar object can become the oldest famous comet

According to scientists, the interstellar object last week may become the oldest comet, which they saw.

Named 3I/Atlas, it can be three billion years older than our own solar system, suggests a team from the University of Oxford.

Only for the third time did we discover an object that came out of our solar system.

Previous conclusions were presented on Friday at a national meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in Darem.

“We are all very excited about 3I/Atlas,” said Oxford Matthew Hopkins, Astronomer. He just completed scientific research when an object was discovered.

He says it may be over seven billion years old and it may be the most wonderful interstellar visitor.

3I/Atlas was first noticed on July 1, 2025 by the Atlas survey in Chile when it was approximately 670 million km from the sun.

Since then, astronomers around the world have been racing to determine your way and learn more about it.

Mr Hopkins believes that it arose on the “thick disk” of the Milky Way. It is a group of ancient stars that orbit above and below the area where the sun and most stars are located.

The team believes that since 3I/Atlas is probably formed around the old star, it consists of a lot of water.

This means that when approaching the sun at the end of this year, the energy from the sun will heat the surface of the object, which will lead to a pair and dust strip.

This can create a burning tail.

Researchers have made their conclusions using a model developed by Mr Hopkins.

“This is an object from a part of a galaxy we have never seen before,” said Professor Chris Lintott, co-author of the study.

“We believe that there is a chance for two -thirds that this comet is older than the solar system, and since then it passes through the interstellar space.”

Later this year 3I/Atlas should be visible from the ground with amateur telescopes.

Up to 3I/Atlas flew into sight, only two more were spotted. One was named 1I/’Oumuamua, found in 2017 and the other called 2I/Borisov, found in 2019.

Currently, astronomers worldwide are preparing for the start of using a new, very powerful telescope in Chile called Vera C Rubin.

If this year it starts a fully survey of the southern night sky, scientists expect that they can detect from 5 to 50 new interstellar objects.