Substance That Powers Star Trek Ships May Have Revealed the True Age of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
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Comet 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar intruder that passed through the inner solar system in 2025, presents characteristics that may offer new perspectives on the formation of celestial bodies. Studied by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the comet revealed a deuterium concentration more than 30 times higher than that found in comets in the solar system. This discovery is fundamental to understanding the history and environmental conditions in wh…
Substance That Powers Star Trek Ships May Have Revealed the True Age of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
If you are a Star Trek fan, chances are you know a thing or two about what deuterium is: a crucial substance that, combined with another one called tritium, helps many of the imagined Universe’s starships, including the Galaxy-class USS Enterprise-D, create the matter-antimatter reactions that get them going. In the real world, deuterium, which is also known as heavy hydrogen, is a naturally occurring isotope of hydrogen that&a... (continue rea…
A team led by Martin Cordiner, at NASA's Goddard Center, established in June 2026 in Nature Astronomy that the water of the visitor named 3I/ATLAS contains much more heavy hydrogen than any known iced object in our neighbourhood. This excess, spotted by the James Webb space telescope and a large network of antennas installed in Chile, signs a birth in an extreme cold, at a time when our Sun did not yet exist. The interstellar comet could thus co…
12 billion years ago, the Sun did not exist. Neither the Earth, nor the solar system. But on the periphery of a young galaxy, a small frozen body began to condense. Today, that traveler has come to us. The James Webb space telescope has just determined that the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was formed between 10,000 and 12 billion years ago, an antiquity that more than doubles our Sun. The chemical signature that gives its origin The definitive tr…
Much deuterated water and little carbon-13: Thanks to new findings on the chemical composition of the interstellar comet, a research team at Nasa can draw new conclusions about its origin and age. read more on t3n.de
What if the elementary bricks of life were rarer than expected in the Universe? The analysis of a comet from another solar system sows doubt.
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