James Webb Space Telescope finds unusual ice composition on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
Observations by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS revealed an unusual composition of its water ice, with two faint spectral marks barely registering. Computer simulations suggest this could be due to tiny bits of ice blended with more dust, indicating that icy bodies from other star systems may share traits with those in our solar system.
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