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Interstellar Visitor 3I/ATLAS Just Got Even Weirder, And May Contain 10-Billion-Year-Old Material


Exiled interstellar visitors like comet 3I/ATLAS are time capsules from the cosmos at large, yeeted from their exosolar homes by an unknown cataclysm and forced to drift through lonely space for billions of years, perhaps.

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