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Apex and velocity of known natural and artificial interstellar objects. Top panel: location of the apex of each interstellar object in Galactic coordinates. Comet 2I/Borisov is shown as a red star and 1I/2017 U1 (‘Oumuamua) is displayed in green. From left to right, C/2024 L5 (ATLAS) and C/1980 E1 (Bowell) are displayed as orange stars, Pioneer 10, Voyager 2, New Horizons, Pioneer 11, and Voyager 1 are shown as grey circles. Coordinates are displayed in a Hammer-Aitoff equal-area projection. Bottom panels: heliocentric Galactic velocity components at apex of the same objects and velocities of stellar groups within 100 pc from the Sun in black.
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