Posted on 11/11/2025 12:52:07 AM PST by blueplum
For the first time, astronomers have picked up a radio signal from the mysterious interstellar visitor as it speeds through our Solar System.
South Africa's MeerKAT radio telescope detected absorption lines from OH molecules...Harvard professor Avi Loeb, who has been studying 3I/ATLAS since the summer, said: 'These molecules leave a distinct radio signature that telescopes like MeerKAT can pick up.'...
Optical images captured on November 9 reveal that 3I/ATLAS is ejecting enormous jets of material both toward and away from the sun. The jets stretch nearly 600,000 miles sunward and almost 1.8 million miles in the opposite direction, roughly the diameter of the sun or the moon in the sky.
At its current distance of 203 million miles from Earth, these distances represent the first clear measurements of the vast size of 3I/ATLAS's activity....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
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It’s coming to see Harry and Meghan.....
“What’s the cost of a gallon of gas on your planet?”
“absorption lines from OH molecules” — uh-oh, I was afraid this moment would come... oxygen? hydrogen? We’re doooooomed! ✨
To serve man.
E.T phone home.
What's the frequency Kennith.....?
***South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope****
Sounds too much like the 1835 Men in the Moon hoax by the NY SUN newspaper. I believe their “telescope” was also in South Africa. There was no telescope.
https://www.britannica.com/story/the-great-moon-hoax-of-1835-was-sci-fi-passed-off-as-news
Alien: "Let's create a probe to spy on those humans, but we'll make it look and act just like a comet, so they won't even be suspicious...but, then we'll have it do all kinds of crazy stuff that comets don't normally do just for the fun of it."
“Send More Chuck Berry!”
Let’s hope these aliens are not ostrich-like creatures.
But we do have direct data, not directly of its density, but the composition of its gaseous emissions.
The spectrography of its tail and halo suggest that the composition of this 'comet' is very different than other comets.
We may have to come up with another term for interstellar objects of this kind. Its makeup and behavior are very different. Or maybe our understanding of celestial mechanics are incorrect.
3I-Atlas raises a lot of questions.
If this is the third such object, then it should be the last one. Unless they are planning something BIG.
Ramans always do things in threes.
If this is the third such object, then it should be the last one. Unless they are planning something BIG.
Ramans always do things in threes.
Didn’t you READ the article?? it is from the ionization of an OH molecule. (oxygen-hydrogen)
Get those Slim Whitman records ready
“They blew up Congress....HAHAHAHAHA!”
Mars Attacks 2: Mars and Uranus strike back
humankind is full of assumptions, in the big scheme of things, we know nothing.
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