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Awakening an interstellar wanderer: Surprising nickel detection in Comet 3I/ATLAS

Rohan Rahatgaonkar is a Ph.D. student at the Instituto de Astrofísica-Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Darryl Z. Seligman is an Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University. In a surprising discovery, our team has detected glowing nickel vapor in the gas surrounding the incoming interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS at an extraordinary distance from the sun, where…
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