Comets are typically found much farther away in the outer Solar System, and only thirteen others are known to be so close to the Sun.
In 2021, astronomers detected a mysterious object never observed before. It was in the main asteroid belt, the vast ring of debris left over from the formation of the Solar System, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Due to its characteristics, it did not look like an asteroid…
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