The sun may have stripped away meters of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS brought material from another planetary system within reach of our telescopes, but reading its chemistry poses a problem. Energetic particles encountered during its journey through space may have changed its outer layers, so how much of what astronomers detect still…
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- Phys.org Press · phys.org
- Universe Space Tech Genre press · universemagazine.comHow much material did comet 3I/ATLAS lose during its close approach to the Sun?