New Interstellar Visitor: 2I/Borisov Imaged with Gemini (IMAGE)

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New Interstellar Visitor: 2I/Borisov Imaged with Gemini

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The first-ever comet from beyond our Solar System, as imaged by the Gemini Observatory. The image of the newly discovered object, named 2I/Borisov, was obtained on the night of 9-10 September 2019 using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph on the Gemini North Telescope on Hawaii's Mauna Kea.

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Gemini Observatory/NSF/AURA

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