Physicists Open a “Message in a Bottle” From Interstellar Space

Physicists Open a “Message in a Bottle” From Interstellar Space

Researchers at Auburn University have identified a distinctive ultraviolet signature of water in the interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS. For millions of years, a fragment of ice and dust drifted between the stars—like a sealed bottle cast into the cosmic ocean. This summer, that bottle finally washed ashore in our solar system and was designated [...]