Tuesday, August 12, 2025

3I/ATLAS Is Very Actively Releasing Water

Images of 3I/ATLAS captured by Swift. Credit - Z. Xing et al.

3I/ATLAS, our third discovered interstellar visitor, has been in the news a lot lately for a whole host of reasons, and rightly so given the amount of unique scientific data different groups and telescopes have been collecting off of it. A new pre-release paper from researchers at the Auburn University Department of Physics recounts yet another interesting aspect of the new visitor - its water content.



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