{"id":3928068,"date":"2026-09-22T11:03:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T16:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/3i-atlas-has-an-extreme-taste-for-heavy-water\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T11:03:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T16:03:56","slug":"3i-atlas-has-an-extreme-taste-for-heavy-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/3i-atlas-has-an-extreme-taste-for-heavy-water\/","title":{"rendered":"3I\/ATLAS has an extreme taste for heavy water"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>More and more details about 3I\/ATLAS are filtering through the scientific process as time goes on. Our third known interstellar visitor attracted the attention of some of the world&#8217;s most powerful observatories when it was discovered in July 2025, and some of those telescopes found something peculiar\u2014the isotopes it contained appeared different. A new paper submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters (and available as a preprint on arXiv) by Kenji Furuya of the RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute in Japan and his co-authors shows that the isotopic discrepancy is likely due to the &#8220;low metallicity&#8221; of the stellar nursery in which 3I\/ATLAS was born.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-09-3iatlas-extreme-heavy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More and more details about 3I\/ATLAS are filtering through the scientific process as time goes on. Our third known interstellar visitor attracted the attention of some of the world&#8217;s most powerful observatories when it was discovered in July 2025, and some of those telescopes found something peculiar\u2014the isotopes it contained appeared different. A new paper [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}