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New Research Reveals That Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Formed in a System Far Colder Than Our Own


The interplanetary comet 3I/ATLAS is remarkably rich in a specific type of water that contains deuterium, meaning it came from somewhere colder and with lower levels of radiation than our early Solar System.

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