Carbon dioxide abundance in comets

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope detects methane hidden deep in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, which is unusually rich in carbon dioxide |

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June 3, 2026

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Views from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope throw the familiar categories of comet science into something awkward. 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object that transited only briefly through the solar system, has been observed before, but this reading…