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2I/Borisov is an interstellar object that was discovered on August 30, 2019, by Gennady Borisov

It was first photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2019.

v t e 2019 in space
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Space probe launches	Beresheet (lunar lander; Feb 2019) LightSail 2 (solar sail demonstration; Jun 2019) Chandrayaan-2 / Vikram / Pragyan (lunar obiter, lander and rover; Jul 2019)
Impact events	Kamchatka meteor (announced) 2019 MO
Selected NEOs	Asteroid close approaches 2018 XB4 2019 AS5 2016 AZ8 66391 Moshup 2019 OK 1620 Geographos 2006 QV89 2100 Ra-Shalom 2019 SU3 2019 TA7 2019 UN13
Exoplanets	AD Leonis b Beta Pictoris c DS Tucanae b Gliese 251 c Gliese 357 d Gliese 588 b c Gliese 687 c Gliese 555 b Gliese 754 b Gliese 784 b HR 5183 b Kepler-47d confirmed K2-288Bb L 1159-16 b c d LP 816-60 b LTT 1445 Ab Luyten's Star d e PDS 70c Proxima Centauri c Struve 2398 Bb Bc Tau Ceti i (hypothesized) Teegarden's Star b c V1298 Tauri b c d e Wolf 359 b c
Discoveries	2019 AQ3 ASASSN-19bt AT2019qiz GRB 190114C EPIC 204376071 GW190412 GW190521g (first-ever light from bh-bh merger) GW190814 (first-ever "mass-gap" collision) J043947.08+163415.7 K2-18b water vapor M87* imaged PSR J0030+0451 mapped PSR J0740+6620 S5-HVS1 2I/Borisov 20 moons of Saturn WD 0145+234 detection of exoasteroid disruption WD J0914+1914
Comets	C/2018 Y1 (Iwamoto) 78P/Gehrels 168P/Hergenrother 163P/NEAT 138P/Shoemaker–Levy 171P/Spahr 289P/Blanpain
Space exploration	New Horizons (encounter with 486958 Arrokoth; Dec 2018 / Jan 2019) Chang'e 4 / Yutu-2 (landing on the far side of the Moon; Jan 2019) Opportunity (end of mission; Aug 2018 / Feb 2019) Hayabusa2 (departure from 162173 Ryugu; Dec 2019)

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