Astronomers at South Africa's MeerKAT radio telescope have detected the first radio waves coming from the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. But while this sounds suspiciously like alien activity, it is actually further proof of its completely natural origins.
  • eleitl@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 days ago

    They are not “radio signals” “coming from” the comet. It’s banal hydroxyl radical band absorption of sunlight, spectroscopy.