13 September 2019
Newly discovered comet could be our second interstellar visitor
... discovered cruising around three astronomical units (about 450 million kilometres) from the Sun on 30 August, 2019, by Gennady Borisov at the MARGO observatory in Nauchnij, Crimea. After its initial detection, NASA’s Scout system, located at the Jet...
17 October 2019
Hubble gets a good look at interstellar visitor Comet 2I/Borisov
... drift for millions of years before maybe one day approaching another star system. Crimean amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov first discovered the comet on 30 August 2019. After a week of observations by amateur and professional astronomers all over...
