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Discovery 3 months ago3I/ATLAS, Discovered In July 2025, Is The 3rd Confirmed Interstellar Comet (IC) After ‘Oumuamua & Borisov. In 2026, NASA‘s Swift Detected OH Gas (Sign Of Water) Outgassing At ~40 Kg/Sec While It Was Unusually Far, ~3.5 AU, From The Sun. It’s The First Direct Water Detection From An IC, Showing Other Star Systems Host Water-Rich Icy Bodies.
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is spraying water across the solar system | ScienceDailyFor millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the third known interstellar comet ever spotted. When scientists turned NASA’s Swift Observatory toward it, they caught the first-ever hint of water from such an object, detected through a faint ultraviolet glow of hydroxyl gas. Even more surprising, the comet was blasting out water at a rate of about 40 kilograms per second while still far from the Sun—much farther than where most comets “switch on.”





