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Astronomers track object that may have originated outside the solar system

Cape Canaveral, FLA. (AP) – Astronomers monitor an object that heads our way that may wander from another stars system.

The European Space Agency said on Wednesday that scientists have discovered what may only be the third of the known stars that pass through our solar system.

The inconvenient organism is currently located near Jupiter hundreds of millions of miles (kilometers) far and moving towards Mars, but it should not approach the sun to that, according to scientists.

It is too early to know if the object, which is currently set as A11pl3z, is a rocky asteroid or ice sins, or how much the shape. More notes are needed to confirm their origins. NASA said it was watching the situation.

Astronomical physicist Josepe Tergo Rodriguez of the Space Science Institute, Spain, believes that he is a stars that depends on its strange course and the speed of his story through the solar system. It is estimated at about 25 miles (40 km) across.

The first confirmed visitor among the stars was in 2017. He was named OmuamuaHawaii for scouts, in honor of the Observatory in Hawaii. It was initially classified as an asteroid, and Oumuamua has since showed signs as guilty.

The second being that was confirmed by the other star system to the same 21/BorisovDiscover in 2019 and is believed to be guilty.

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