The third interstellar object detected has been named 3I/ATLAS and was discovered on July 1 from Chile. Astronomers from the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands are tracking it with several telescopes in Tenerife.

Late in the evening on July 1, a telescope in Chile that is part of the global, NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) picked up on a new moving dot in the sky, an object traveling past the orbit of Jupiter.

Spotting a possible interstellar object is incredibly rare, and it’s exciting that our UH-operated system caught it,” University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy’s John Tonry said following the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) detection of a high-speed object on July 1,