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Posted on 08/27/2025 6:36:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Both the James Webb Space Telescope and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory observatory SPHEREx snapped new images of 3I/ATLAS this week, almost two months after it was first spotted in the skies above Chile.
3I/ATLAS glows red in the new images with a seemingly threatening aura, though most scientists believe the object to be merely a 12-mile-wide interstellar comet.
The snaps showed that 3I/ATLAS is “outgassing” as it approaches the Sun, which was expected. However, the object is dumping out a conspicuous amount of carbon dioxide and a surprisingly small amount of water and carbon monoxide, according to experts, including Harvard astrophysicist Avie Loeb.
“The H2O mass loss rate is only 5% of the CO2 output. This is 16 times more extreme than expected for a typical comet at the same distance from the Sun,” Loeb wrote in a Medium post Tuesday.
The object is shrouded in a layer of CO2, preventing deeper observation of what it is constitutionally composed of, according to Loeb.
The amount of the gas lost off the object as it travels is just a minuscule fraction of its overall massive size — possibly indicating that the design could be intentional.
“The CO2 mass loss amounts to the ablation of a millimeter thick layer from the surface of a 46-kilometer object over a period of a few years.”
“In other words, a relatively thin outer layer is sufficient to maintain the observed cloud of CO2 gas around 3I/ATLAS. What lies under this outer skin remains unknown,”
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who was driving SUVs on that comet?
Why can't they just concede that they don't know everything about the solar system and comets yet? This whole spacecraft mystery stuff is dumb. They should be better than that with all the money we spend on them. They're probably just sensationalizing this to keep the research money flowing to themselves.
Cows? Methane powered?
AHAH! The aliens have camouflaged their vessel to stymie prying eyes.
Well what we know is that CO2 is caused by white racists [right wing fascists] and their cars and cows.
Okay...white racist Aliens. Maybe we need some white aliens to balance out the usual crop.
More horsepuckey from Horsepuckey Central.
From the so-called “article:”
“”3I/ATLAS glows red in the new images with a seemingly threatening aura.””
It “glows” red because the Webb Space Telescope is an infrared telescope!
C’mon, Man!
One of the best places for real science is
The quote below comes from this specific article:
“”These results, along with all the observations by multiple other telescopes in space and on the ground, are in line with what is expected from a comet, with the kind of unique differences expected from each object. There is nothing seen so far from the data to suggest anything alien about it, despite the claims of some publicity-seeking scientists who don’t even specialize in comet research.””
If it ever DOES change direction and head for us, I’m sure everyone will be broadcasting it.
So frozen carbon dioxide. Oh no! It’s gonna cause solar system wide warming.
-PJ
Beer on dry ice? Now, that is a peace offering!
Loeb needs a psychiatric intervention. OBSESSIVE UFO ideation.
Consider the source of this uber-low IQ statement of “intentional” design from the NYP. The NYP has no shortage of retards that call themselves writers as they can’t even tell a girl from a boy.
Who said anything about aliens?
Settle down.
I took it that they’re reporting the info they got from the astronomers/scientists. This whole ‘possible alien spacecraft’ farce started from them, right?
Much of this is nonsense such as an “interstellar comet” as there is really no such thing as they would disintegrate over the tens of thousands of years it would take for a single straight line trip. Astronomers and astrophysicists would never make such a foolish comment.
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