detected by ATLAS survey, July 2025. Third interstellar object ever found.

perihelion: closest to the sun. Outgassing begins. Water ice, CO₂, methane.

SPHEREx confirms organic molecules. Life's building blocks, from another star.

0.358 AU from Jupiter. A gravity nudge. Juno might get one image.

hyperbolic trajectory. It cannot be captured. It was never ours.