Anton Petrov on Interstellar Comet 21/Borisov
Discovered by Gennadiy Borisov, an extremely effective Crimean amateur astronomer 21/Borisov is similar in some respects to the 1995 comet Hale-Bopp, also discovered by amateur astronomers.
See also this NASA piece Interstellar Comet Borisov Reveals Its Chemistry and Possible Origins, this Nature article: Unusual polarimetric properties for interstellar comet 2I/Borisov and this Earthsky article: Update on 2I/Borisov, the first known interstellar comet.
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