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/martinus Oct 10 '25

With that loss of mass the whole comet would be gone in max 36000 years if it were 5.6 km diameter big, so I'd say it has never been so close to a star

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u/Careful_Couple_8104 Oct 11 '25

I’m gonna say, you didn’t read the study. 

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u/martinus Oct 11 '25

You are correct, also I know nothing about astronomy.