Press enter or click to view image in full size An image of 3I/ATLAS on August 24, 2025, taken by the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI) on the Keck II telescope in Hawaii at the wavelength range of 0.3425 to 0.55 micrometers. The yellow arrow points in the direction of the Sun. (Credit: W. B. Hoogendam et al. 2025) A …
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A Steeply-Rising Production of Cyanide and Nickel Without Iron in the Gas Plume Around 3I/ATLAS | by Avi Loeb | Aug, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full size Logarithm of the nickel mass loss rate from 3I/ATLAS (vertical axis) as a function of heliocentric distance (horizontal axis). Blue circles show Very Large Telescope/X-shooter measurements of 3I/ATLAS and the black solid curve is a power–law fit to the data with a power-law index of −8.43±0.79. Colored symbols compare with …
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