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This image shows an artist’s impression of what the surface of the 2I/Borisov comet might look like. 2I/Borisov was a visitor from another planetary system that passed by our Sun in 2019, allowing astronomers a unique view of an interstellar comet. While telescopes on Earth and in space captured images of this comet, we don’t have any close-up observations of 2I/Borisov. It is therefore up to artists to create their own ideas of what the comet’s surface might look like, based on the scientific information we have about it. (SO/M. Kormesser)

Interstellar visitor 2I/Borisov is the most pristine comet ever observed

The study of the untainted interstellar comet 2I/Borisov has allowed astronomers to compare material found in our solar system to ...

An artist's conception showing spherical carbon molecules known as buckyballs coming out from a planetary nebula -- material shed by a dying star. Researchers at the University of Arizona have now created these molecules under laboratory conditions thought to mimic those in their 'natural' habitat in space. NASA/JPL-Caltech

Buckyballs in space: how complex carbon molecules form in space

November 15, 2019

The mystery of how complex carbon molecules--buckyballs-- came to be detected in interstellar space may have been solved.

An optical microscope image of a track through aerogel made by Orion, one of the dust particles believed to be from interstellar space. Photograph: D Frank/Nasa/JSC

The most exotic material on the planet: researchers find dust from beyond the solar system

by Dragos Mitrica

August 15, 2014

Researchers believe they have found seven dust specs from outside the solar system. This is the first time we have ...

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