Astronomers have been racing to get a better look at 3I/ATLAS, a mysterious object with interstellar origins that has defied expectations. While there's a broad consensus among experts that the object is a comet, observations by four NASA telescopes have reveleaed that it bears a much higher proportion of carbon dioxide gas than expected. Now, as the BBC reports, new observations by the Gemini South telescope at Cerro Pachón in Chile gas revealed that 3I/ATLAS' tail is growing longer. Comets, sometimes referred to as "dirty snowballs," are small, icy bodies that release gases as they pass by the Sun. In addition […]

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