"It could represent some of the oldest and most pristine water ever observed, formed in another planetary system and preserved throughout its interstellar journey." A team of scientists has found the ...
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More Than a Dozen NASA Spacecraft Have Laid Eyes on Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS. Now, You Can View New Images That They Captured
NASA has released a long-awaited collection of new photos of comet 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar visitor that has been making ...
A new analysis of our solar system’s interstellar interloper, 3I/ATLAS, reveals that it’s spewing huge amounts of water — and astronomers can’t immediately explain why. The object, which is widely ...
For millions of years, a frozen traveler drifted in silence through the stars, carrying secrets from another world. This summer, that interstellar visitor—now known as 3I/ATLAS—passed through our ...
In 2014, Christopher Nolan took us to space. His nearly three-hour epic, Interstellar, premiered at the tail end of what was called the McConaissance, a brief era when actor Matthew McConaughey ...
Imagine a visitor from another star system, twice as old as Earth, hurtling through our cosmic neighbourhood. This isn't science fiction; it's comet 3I/ATLAS, and it has just sent astronomers a ...
Scientists have detected water vapor components in the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, a significant discovery for understanding its composition and origins. This finding, made possible by NASA's Swift ...
Analyses of its emissions using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory indicate that the interstellar comet probably has a very different structure than comets in the solar system. Hydroxyl compounds ...
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