"Instead of a shattered mess, astronomers David Jewitt and Jane Luu found an intact body surrounded by a glowing coma, the fuzzy envelope of gas that is stretched out in two directions, one pointing toward the sun and another pointing away from it The new images captured by the Nordic Optical Telescope in Spain also revealed that 3I/ATLAS still has a mysterious 'anti-tail' pointing toward the sun, despite the object now moving away from our home star."
"However, the new photos taken on Tuesday also spotted two giant jet-like streams blasting out for hundreds of thousands of miles from the object's surface, which defy the laws of science. One has been shooting material out into space in the direction of the sun, while the other is nearly three times as long and appears to be pointing in the opposite direction."
Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS passed close to the Sun and remained intact instead of melting and producing a large dust cloud as expected. Observations show a single bright body with no fragments and a glowing coma stretched both toward and away from the Sun. New images record a persistent anti-tail pointing sunward even as the object moves away. Two enormous jet-like streams extend hundreds of thousands of miles in opposite directions, with one nearly three times the other's length. Given an estimated size near 3.5 miles, the jets cannot be readily explained by water-vapor outgassing and suggest a non-natural origin.
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