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ALMA Detects Molecular Activity in Largest Known Oort Cloud Comet

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have observed comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) while it was more than halfway to Neptune, at an astonishing distance of 16.6 times the distance between the Sun and Earth.

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