El cometa interestelar 3I/ATLAS contiene agua pesada inusual

Un cometa proveniente de más allá de nuestro sistema solar muestra niveles notablemente superiores de agua rica en deuterio en comparación con cualquier objeto observado localmente. Los hallazgos sugieren que se formó bajo condiciones mucho más frías que las de nuestro propio entorno planetario. Los investigadores utilizaron observaciones de dos telescopios principales para realizar las mediciones.

El objeto, conocido como 3I/ATLAS, es solo el tercer visitante interestelar confirmado detectado en nuestro sistema solar. Los astrónomos lo localizaron hace menos de un año y rápidamente comenzaron estudios de seguimiento detallados. Un equipo dirigido por la Universidad de Michigan analizó su composición de agua y encontró niveles de deuterio aproximadamente 30 veces más altos que en los cometas del sistema solar y 40 veces más altos que en los océanos de la Tierra.

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