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Sorry, but interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS really is a comet, not aliens


Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS are exciting, but there is no reason to claim that they are evidence of alien spacecraft – sometimes a comet is just comet, says Robin George Andrews

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