Researchers at the European Southern Observatory published in an international academic journal the creation of a planetary system twice as old as the solar system. The Atlas Comet (bright dot in the center) taken on January 18, 2026 by the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. Provided by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Comet Atlas (3I/ATLAS), the third extraterrestrial object to enter the solar system in history last year, was formed near a star that is twice as old as the solar system (4.6 billion years)...