NASA has discovered a new interstellar comet that's currently located about 420 million miles away from Earth. The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile on Tuesday and confirmed it was a comet from another star system. The new interstellar comet's official name is 3I/ATLAS.

NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that’s wandered into our backyard.The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the sky-surveying Atlas telescope in Chile earlier this week, and confirmed it was a comet from another star system.

Comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1. “It came from outside our solar system and right now, it's inside the orbit of Jupiter…,” said an official of the NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS).