3I/ATLAS Discovery

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is spraying water across the solar system

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February 12, 2026 43 views
Original source: Science Daily
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is spraying water across the solar system

For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the third known interstellar comet ever spotted. When scientists turned NASA’s Swift Observatory toward it, they caught the first-ever hi…

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