Comet 3I/ATLAS is losing water 'like a fire hose' on full blast, 'rewriting what we thought we knew' about alien star systems

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is blasting water "like a fire hose" at an unprecedented distance from the sun, shedding about 88 pounds of water per second when it was nearly three times farther from the sun than Earth. This behavior is unusual because water ice typically doesn't turn to gas until comets get much closer to the sun, forcing scientists to reconsider their understanding of how comets form around other stars. The comet is possibly the largest and oldest interstellar object ever seen at 3 billion years older than our solar system. This discovery suggests that the ingredients for life's chemistry exist throughout other planetary systems, providing new insights into how planets and comets develop around distant stars.