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Webb Finds Dust-Rich Water Ice in Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS


Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have found that the water ice in the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is mixed with dark, rocky material in tiny grains.

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