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Smithsonian Magazine · 8h

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Came From an Extremely Cold, Lonely Region of the Milky Way Galaxy, New Research Suggests

Astronomers analyzed the vapors coming off the comet when it neared the sun and found it had a lot of "heavy" water. That hints it grew up in a frigid planetary system, possibly before its home star f

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Discover Magazine · 8h

Origins of Comet 3I/ATLAS May Have Been Extremely Cold, Beyond Our Solar System

IFLScience on MSN · 3d

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has astonishingly high ratio of semi-heavy water to water, over 40 times Earth's oceans

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Astronomers Discover Major Clue About 3I/ATLAS’ Origins

In addition to fleshing out 3I/ATLAS’s lonely backstory, it’s also a clue about how other star systems form. Study coauthor ...

Alien comet reveals hidden layers after close brush with the Sun

An interstellar comet changed its chemistry after passing the Sun, revealing hidden layers and a surprising mix of carbon ...

Scientific American

Alien comet reveals our solar system is the oddball

Measurements of this interstellar comet’s molecular makeup show an excess of heavy water molecules that is dramatically ...

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Fastest comet ever recorded spewed 70 Olympic pools’ worth of water daily

3I/ATLAS is now sailing away from Earth and our solar system itself, but astronomers have already learned a wealth of ...

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Interstellar comet spilled methane after close approach to sun

New Delhi: Scientists have examined the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas using the James Webb Space Telescope, which is ...

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