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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Formed Up To 12 Billion Years Ago, New Observations Suggest

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS carries a chemical fingerprint unlike anything in our Solar System, and it may have formed 10 to 12 billion years ago, before our Sun even existed, according to two papers published in the journal Nature.

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