Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, Garafía, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
Northumbria University
CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins85% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 85%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or betterAstronomy Now[1] reported the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society study on 8 September 2026 and Sci.News[2] reported it the same month.
A Northumbria University team using the William Herschel Telescope's WEAVE spectrograph found unusually nitrogen-rich gas in the tail of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, pointing to formation at about 30 kelvin far from its home star.
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