Astronomers just spotted a fourth interstellar intruder-bigger than 3I/ATLAS, roughly forty kilometres across-barreling in on a hyperbolic path.
It's labeled C/2025 Q2 (ZTF), inbound from the Oort Cloud, perihelion October twenty-fifth, point-nine AU from the Sun-just inside Venus orbit.
That puts it the Sun from Earth's view around October twenty-ninth, the exact day 3I/ATLAS swings closest. No emissions yet-no nickel glow, no 95 megahertz-but it's accelerating, forty-eight kilometres per second.
NASA hasn't blinked; the data's from Zwicky Transient Facility and Gemini South, public since yesterday. If that's coincidence, I'm out of metaphors.
NASA hasn't blinked; the data's from Zwicky Transient Facility and Gemini South, public since yesterday. If that's coincidence, I'm out of metaphors.
