Fix the News helps us see the big picture

You and I have talked before about the benefits of expanding our perspective in difficult times.

So — among the items behind the paywall in this edition of Fix the News:

A newly discovered interstellar object likely is the oldest comet ever seen, possibly more than seven billion years old.

This “water ice-rich” visitor, named 3I/ATLAS, is only the third known object from beyond our solar system ever spotted in our cosmic neighborhood and the first to reach us from a completely different region of our Milky Way galaxy, says Britain’s Royal Astronomical Society.

The comet should be visible through a “reasonably-sized amateur telescope” later this year and early in 2026.