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Interstellar Comet Reveals Methane on its Journey through our Solar System
April 16, 2026
PASADENA, California, April 16 -- The California Institute of Technology posted the following news:

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Interstellar Comet Reveals Methane on its Journey through our Solar System

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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is now on its way out of our solar system, never to return.

The comet was only the third-ever detected object to originate from outside our solar system. Traveling at high speeds, it looped around the Sun within 1.5 AU (one . . .

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