{"id":497587,"date":"2026-06-27T03:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T03:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/497587\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T03:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T03:03:09","slug":"new-study-says-comet-3i-atlas-might-be-oldest-interstellar-visitor-ever-yahoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/497587\/","title":{"rendered":"New study says comet 3I\/ATLAS might be oldest interstellar visitor ever &#8211; Yahoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMif0FVX3lxTE95bTBTcnlqZnNDZjFWUzVUUFJNWWVKMEl2Vi1OQ0hpMFRYVEdwVkZPT0x2MVl0Q0VjMGdjOS1FOTNBRFBPaEoyMnhnVUlEWXBwUlFOLURzZnprOV9IcFBaT2xNcXdKbFI4ZVdXWVpoQXZYY1hhRUNIa2hnbDk3R28?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New study says comet 3I\/ATLAS might be oldest interstellar visitor ever<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Yahoo<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiqgFBVV95cUxNRFJMV0NPb0dUdUFLXzR2WHBIeldEcVJnZUpxMUNwNHJFOTZ0UGZvS1AweVZqd1lCUlNBTGZQSlVRRDNkNHhvMXdzdlNqb053QU1kdXFPQVJBQ2xESzd3RjRyQVBHdUwtU3B5MHBRSk1VZFhMU09pcE9VQnhnVkVjSXBIQWlCRnRmTEVvZ0pXVEVTQ3RxQ01Hb2N2RUFfSHllcjRkZlAzcEd1dw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASA\u2019s Webb Finds Clues to Ancient, Distant Origin of Comet 3I\/ATLAS<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;NASA Science (.gov)<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi1wFBVV95cUxOczRVWWRGVlhwc0pRdEFrYmRzaEwzandfM3FaM0dBYkdISDBBVEc0YVo2UGNHNkdqdWI2WWJTTWI2VE5CUHlvVmZ4V2dXUVJ6dldtNEFDSW5YZ3hZS0VlZmFWTVE3VS1RYmVfNnhnUU1na3dkY2JtVnc5dFQ5My1jMzg1a1llR0hTVXlqSlVnNHJKSmJ3ZWxTMnRMUzFiN29paEhSbUJwcjgyY1lsRXRsSVJKN2hpamlxUk9ZX0lqU2pHa0dLUUxzeGUtWkxmbUpPUXRVand2VQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scientists scanned an interstellar visitor for alien signals&#8230; what they found was unexpected<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;MSN<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMivAJBVV95cUxOYy1ST09ZLWgtLVpLd3BIeGVrLWRKMUVwV21FSThDVEdpT3J5U1lVQTZuTU5JbGNiLUpsS2xZVUlpdlAxaktrZ2Rsbk13eUhiWlN1UlBiTkZQVWQ0MEpIbWhrNWUtbDZUSnV3VHJ2T0dBYWpsaWFqdkhlaVpsd1NzdS1iU1BwNmhKVmN3Rnl6U2ZwUlc2d20yTC1qRnVYb3g1YUpMc3k3Q21jVGlpaU53cE45UXVJNW9pUUIyZG1sd1Z0WWtOa29lM01EV0pzYm1RTXAwX2dNVUZTZEJTUUpSc05pYm1pZGFpQnEzTzh4aUFOS0lMWmIwSERxRng5bXNKQy1KWEk3VFVEYklvOC1ZUm4ydm5sTjZUOFBXLTcxdFN6MFY4TjFNTkVXaTRVVUNmbTA5QVN3NTRyV21w?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS, discovered by a telescope in Chile, is about 7 billion years old, Oxford astronomers believe, meaning it had already been wandering in the Milky Way for almost 3 billion years.<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Vive Click<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMib0FVX3lxTE1FREVkUkJRY2FIM0JtS2pCQy1HZGxoTHFjamdYSno3d2owdmlpN2FWbHR1V0xaTkdiTWpMeEV5MFlTOGZ1eVVudHFIa1RCNVAtcVJJNk1JbjMxUXNOYUdVWmpaY0dpVnVPSUYtY2RrWQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A rare interstellar visitor triggered a SETI search for alien technology<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;ScienceDaily<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New study says comet 3I\/ATLAS might be oldest interstellar visitor ever&nbsp;&nbsp;YahooNASA\u2019s Webb Finds Clues to Ancient, Distant Origin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[18684,248799,27960,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-497587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-avi-loeb","tag-gadi-schwartz","tag-nbc-news","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}