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1 week ago

Harvard Astronomer Says Mysterious Interstellar Object May Be Blasting Its Thrusters to Get Away From Us as Fast as Possible

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, likely a carbon-dioxide ice comet, survived perihelion intact and displays jets and an anti-tail; some suggest possible technological thrusters.
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fromFuturism
2 months ago

The Mysterious Object Cruising Toward Mars Just Did Something Very Peculiar

And intriguingly, according to images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the object isn't just growing one tail - it's also sprouting a separate "anti-tail," pointing in the direction of the Sun,as Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb suggests in a new, yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper. "The anti-tail is an extension of the glow of scattered sunlight around 3I/ATLAS towards the Sun and not away from it - as typically the case for comets," Loeb explained in a new blog post. "This anomalous anti-tail, not a result of geometric perspective, had never been reported before for solar system comets."
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