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Humbling size of interstellar Comet Borisov revealed in latest look Scott Sutherland mercredi, 27 novembre 2019 à 18:30 - This visitor from another star is putting on quite a show for astronomers Interstellar Comet Borisov is just a tiny dot in our night sky, visible only in the early morning hours before sunrise. Still, astronomers are capturing amazing new views of this visitor, using the very best telescopes available. Since first spotted at the end of August, by amateur astronomer Gennadiy Borisov, our views of Comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), aka 2I/Borisov, have grown from a tiny smudge to ...

    “It’s increasingly seeming that the solar system is something of an oddball,” said Gregory Laughlin, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. “While it’s still too soon to know for sure how odd the solar system is, if it turns out to be a cosmological anomaly, then so might be Earth – and life.” ESO’s VLT Captures a “Very Young Version of our Own Sun” “This discovery is a snapshot of an environment that is very similar to our Solar System, but at a much earlier stage of its evolution,” says Alexander Bohn, at Leiden University in the Net...