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Snapshot of a new interstellar comet: 3I/ATLAS has a red and featureless spectrum

Cyrielle Opitom, Colin Snodgrass, Emmanuel Jehin, 2025. MNRAS Letters 544, L31-L36.

VLT/MUSE on 2025-07-03 at 4.47 au: red coma, slope (18+/-4)%/1000 A; no C2, NH2, CN or [OI] detected; coma entirely dusty.

MYS0DFPTE25MVWR · mystery · click to copyM3I/ATLASArticledoi: 10.1093/mnrasl/slaf0950

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Opitom, C., Snodgrass, C., & Jehin, E. (2025). Snapshot of a new interstellar comet: 3I/ATLAS has a red and featureless spectrum. MNRAS Letters 544, L31-L36. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slaf095
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