Posted on October 7, 2025, 4:28 pm By professorrosado
Research More At iKnowdle!Physicists detect water’s ultraviolet fingerprint in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
For millions of years, a fragment of ice and dust drifted between the stars—like a sealed bottle cast into the cosmic ocean. This summer, that bottle finally washed ashore in our solar system and was designated 3I/ATLAS, only the third known interstellar comet. When Auburn University scientists pointed NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory toward it, they made a remarkable find: the first detection of hydroxyl (OH) gas from this object, a chemical fingerprint of water.
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