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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 reflects the comet's birthplace?

The sun may have stripped away meters of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

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