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Newly spotted comet marks third interstellar object seen in solar system
STORY: :: NASA/ATLAS/University of Hawaii Astronomers are tracking a newly spotted visitor to our solar system. :: K Ly at Deep Random Survey :: Olivier Hainaut et al./European Southern Observatory The object, likely a comet, is named 3I/ATLAS and hails from parts unknown. It's only the third time such an interstellar interloper has been observed in Earth's celestial neighborhood. :: David Jewitt/NASA/ESA/Space Telescope Science Institute NASA said it was first spotted on July 1 by an Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, telescope, located in Chile. :: Catalina Sky Survey/D Rankin The object is traveling at a speed of around 37 miles per second from the direction of the center of the Milky Way galaxy, and astronomers agree the presumed comet poses no threat to Earth... It will come no closer than 150 million miles away, about 1-1/2 times the distance between Earth and the sun. However, Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has made waves in academic circles with his co-authored paper, 'Is the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS alien technology?" :: Catalina Sky Survey/D Rankin In it, Loeb and two other researchers argue that due to other unusual characteristics, it could actually be an alien probe on a mission. :: Olivier Hainaut et al./European Southern Observatory While Loeb concedes the object may in fact be a comet, he argues it's important for scientists not to rule out any possibilities. "The unusual trajectory of this object offers the possibility that it might have been designed so as to have some goals of a reconnaissance mission." MEECH: "It's irresponsible science.' :: NASA/ATLAS/University of Hawaii Karen Meech, a planetary astronomer at the University of Hawaii's Institute of Astronomy, dismisses the idea. 'This is just coincidence, the path that it comes through the solar system. There's a perfectly natural explanation for this. It is behaving like a regular comet. // It's developing a little tail, it's getting brighter as it gets closer to the sun. We know a few things about it, but everyone's intensively studying it..." :: Olivier Hainaut et al./European Southern Observatory 3I/ATLAS will reach its closest approach to the sun around October 30, when it will be about 130 million miles away from our star. :: File The only other such interstellar visitors were objects called 1I/'Oumuamua, detected in 2017, and 2I/Borisov, discovered in 2019. Reuters / NASA/ATLAS/University of Hawaii / CATALINA SKY SURVEY/D RANKIN / DAVID JEWITT/NASA/ESA/SPACE TELESCOPE SCIENCE INSTITUTE / RUBINOBS/NOIRLAB/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA / K Ly at Deep Random Survey / Olivier Hainaut et al./European Southern Observatory / ONLINE WEBSITE Solve the daily Crossword
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Newly spotted comet marks third interstellar object seen in solar system
STORY: :: NASA/ATLAS/University of Hawaii Astronomers are tracking a newly spotted visitor to our solar system. :: K Ly at Deep Random Survey :: Olivier Hainaut et al./European Southern Observatory The object, likely a comet, is named 3I/ATLAS and hails from parts unknown. It's only the third time such an interstellar interloper has been observed in Earth's celestial neighborhood. :: David Jewitt/NASA/ESA/Space Telescope Science Institute NASA said it was first spotted on July 1 by an Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, telescope, located in Chile. :: Catalina Sky Survey/D Rankin The object is traveling at a speed of around 37 miles per second from the direction of the center of the Milky Way galaxy, and astronomers agree the presumed comet poses no threat to Earth... It will come no closer than 150 million miles away, about 1-1/2 times the distance between Earth and the sun. However, Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has made waves in academic circles with his co-authored paper, 'Is the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS alien technology?" :: Catalina Sky Survey/D Rankin In it, Loeb and two other researchers argue that due to other unusual characteristics, it could actually be an alien probe on a mission. :: Olivier Hainaut et al./European Southern Observatory While Loeb concedes the object may in fact be a comet, he argues it's important for scientists not to rule out any possibilities. "The unusual trajectory of this object offers the possibility that it might have been designed so as to have some goals of a reconnaissance mission." MEECH: "It's irresponsible science.' :: NASA/ATLAS/University of Hawaii Karen Meech, a planetary astronomer at the University of Hawaii's Institute of Astronomy, dismisses the idea. 'This is just coincidence, the path that it comes through the solar system. There's a perfectly natural explanation for this. It is behaving like a regular comet. // It's developing a little tail, it's getting brighter as it gets closer to the sun. We know a few things about it, but everyone's intensively studying it..." :: Olivier Hainaut et al./European Southern Observatory 3I/ATLAS will reach its closest approach to the sun around October 30, when it will be about 130 million miles away from our star. :: File The only other such interstellar visitors were objects called 1I/'Oumuamua, detected in 2017, and 2I/Borisov, discovered in 2019. Reuters / NASA/ATLAS/University of Hawaii / CATALINA SKY SURVEY/D RANKIN / DAVID JEWITT/NASA/ESA/SPACE TELESCOPE SCIENCE INSTITUTE / RUBINOBS/NOIRLAB/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA / K Ly at Deep Random Survey / Olivier Hainaut et al./European Southern Observatory / ONLINE WEBSITE
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2 days ago
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Candy giant Mars to invest US$2 billion more in U.S. manufacturing through 2026
Chocolate bars from Mars are pictured in a store in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. (AP / Martin Meissner) Candy and snacks giant Mars on Tuesday announced plans to invest US$2 billion more in its U.S. operations through next year to bolster the company's ongoing efforts to expand manufacturing in the country. The Twix and MilkyWay chocolate maker has already invested more than $6 billion in U.S. manufacturing in the last five years and the new funding will support a $240 million facility for Nature's Bakery in Salt Lake City, Utah. The new facility, opening on Wednesday, will create over 230 new jobs in the region and have the capacity to produce about one billion candy bars every year, Mars said. 'The U.S. is our biggest and most important market, and a key engine of growth for the long term – not only through our legacy manufacturing footprint but also through the expansion of strategic acquisitions like Nature's Bakery, which is already scaling quickly," said Mars CFO Claus Aagaard. Many companies are doubling down on their U.S. production capabilities after the Trump administration imposed sweeping import tariffs aimed at narrowing the trade deficit and prompting multinational firms to bring manufacturing back to America. About 94 per cents of Mars products sold in the U.S. are produced locally. The company announced a $36 billion deal to buy Pringles maker Kellanova K.N in August, and has received approval from U.S. antitrust regulators while EU counterparts opened a full-scale investigation last month. (Reporting by Anuja Bharat Mistry in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika Syamnath)
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2 days ago
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Candy giant Mars to invest $2 billion more in US manufacturing through 2026
(Reuters) -Candy and snacks giant Mars on Tuesday announced plans to invest $2 billion more in its U.S. operations through next year to bolster the company's ongoing efforts to expand manufacturing in the country. The Twix and MilkyWay chocolate maker has already invested more than $6 billion in U.S. manufacturing in the last five years and the new funding will support a $240 million facility for Nature's Bakery in Salt Lake City, Utah. The new facility, opening on Wednesday, will create over 230 new jobs in the region and have the capacity to produce about one billion candy bars every year, Mars said. "The U.S. is our biggest and most important market, and a key engine of growth for the long term – not only through our legacy manufacturing footprint but also through the expansion of strategic acquisitions like Nature's Bakery, which is already scaling quickly," said Mars CFO Claus Aagaard. Many companies are doubling down on their U.S. production capabilities after the Trump administration imposed sweeping import tariffs aimed at narrowing the trade deficit and prompting multinational firms to bring manufacturing back to America. About 94% of Mars products sold in the U.S. are produced locally. The company announced a $36 billion deal to buy Pringles maker Kellanova in August, and has received approval from U.S. antitrust regulators while EU counterparts opened a full-scale investigation last month.
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2 days ago
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Candy giant Mars to invest $2 billion more in U.S. manufacturing through 2026
Candy and snacks giant Mars on Tuesday announced plans to invest $2 billion more in its U.S. operations through next year to bolster the company's ongoing efforts to expand manufacturing in the country. The Twix and Milky Way chocolate maker has already invested more than $6 billion in U.S. manufacturing in the last five years and the new funding will support a $240 million facility for Nature's Bakery in Salt Lake City, Utah. The new facility, opening on Wednesday, will create over 230 new jobs in the region and have the capacity to produce about one billion candy bars every year, Mars said. "The U.S. is our biggest and most important market, and a key engine of growth for the long term – not only through our legacy manufacturing footprint but also through the expansion of strategic acquisitions like Nature's Bakery, which is already scaling quickly," said Mars CFO Claus Aagaard. Many companies are doubling down on their U.S. production capabilities after the Trump administration imposed sweeping import tariffs aimed at narrowing the trade deficit and prompting multinational firms to bring manufacturing back to America. About 94% of Mars products sold in the U.S. are produced locally. The company announced a $36 billion deal to buy Pringles maker Kellanova in August, and has received approval from U.S. antitrust regulators while EU counterparts opened a full-scale investigation last month.
