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Our solar system’s interstellar interloper, 3I/ATLAS,
showed strong ultraviolet emissions that are unmistakable telltales of hydroxyl gas (OH), a byproduct of water,
when astronomers imaged it with the with NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift space telescope before it disappeared behind the Sun.
Their findings, detailed in a new studypublished in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, argue that the presence of all this OH indicates
the comet is ejecting water vapor at a torrentia…