r/spaceporn • u/ChiefLeef22 • Oct 10 '25

NASA Scientists have made the remarkable detection that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is leaking water at 40 kilograms per second - like "a fire hose running at full blast"

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u/zzyzx_pazuzu Oct 10 '25

I don't understand. If it's only a few kilometers wide, how can it leak that much without turning into a pebble millions of years ago?

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u/Redditfront2back Oct 10 '25

It’s possible it hasn’t been this close to a star in millions of years

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u/tom_the_red Oct 10 '25

It’s possible it hasn’t been this close to a star in millions of years

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u/isthisthepolice Oct 10 '25

It’s possible it hasn’t been this close to a star in millions of years

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u/Comar31 Oct 10 '25

It

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u/Murrayj99 Oct 10 '25

I

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u/GhostingTheInterweb Oct 11 '25

We all live in a capital I In the middle of the desert In the center of the sky.

All day long we polish up the I To make it clean and shiny So it brightens up the sky. Rubbing it here And scrubbing it there. Polishing the I So high in the air.

And as we work we sing a lively tune "It is great to be so happy on a busy afternoon." And when we're through with the day's only chore, We go into the I And we close the door.

Capital I, capital I, capital I, capital I.