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Interstellar Visitor 3I/ATLAS Shows Water Ice Behaves the Same Across Alien Star Systems
Targets of opportunity sometimes happen in astronomy, and we got a major one when the third interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, was discovered in July 2025. And it just so happens that in the intervening years between the last known interstellar visitor (2I/Borisov in 2019), we got a major upgrade in our observational capabilities with the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). A new paper from a team of researchers led by Dr. Silvia Protopapa of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the Southwest Research Institute, and published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, details JWST’s find
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| Authors | Andy Tomaswick |
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| First observed here | 5 Nov 2026, 12:00 EST |
| Last observed here | 5 Nov 2026, 12:00 EST |
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- Double Asteroid Redirection Test
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- European Space Agency
- NASA
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