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Newly released images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS appear to show the alien object spitting out an enormous jet of…

Fragments of the hellish, lava-covered “proto-planet” that existed before Earth 4.5 billion years ago have survived unaltered in ancient rocks,…