Press enter or click to view image in full size An image of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS from the Two-meter Twin Telescope in the Canary Islands, Spain. The image, composed of 159 exposures of 50 seconds each, was taken on August 2, 2025. It shows a faint jet pointed towards the Sun (marked by a purple line), extending out to …
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The Sunward Glow in the Hubble Image of 3I/ATLAS is Ten Times Longer Than It is Wide | by Avi Loeb | Sep, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full size Hubble Space Telescope image of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS on July 21, 2025. The brightness contours feature an elongation of scattered sunlight towards the Sun and not away from it as previously observed for solar system comets. The yellow and green arrows mark, respectively, the projected negative heliocentric velocity vector …
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