In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...

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Answer: It’s a comet that comes from another stellar system, from another star. It’s the third one we’ve ever discovered. The first, 1I/ʻOumuamua, resembled an asteroid more than a comet, but the ...

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