3I/ATLAS Generating Own Light?

[Scottmi]

got popcorn? gonna be interesting

Does 3I/ATLAS Generate Its Own Light?

The best image we have so far of the new interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, was obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope on July 21, 2025. The…

avi-loeb.medium.com

 

[Waning Embers]

The image shows a glow of light, likely from a coma, ahead of the motion of 3I/ATLAS towards the Sun. There is no evidence for a bright cometary tail in the opposite direction.

Probably just a big ball of metal.

 

[georged]

The big question, of course, is "Will it land in Washington, DC?"

 

[lraisch]

The big question, of course, is "Will it land in Washington, DC?"



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One can only hope.

 

[Scottmi]

The big question, of course, is "Will it land in Washington, DC?"



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"Gort only knows."

 

[BingBong]

We have to take Avi Loeb with a grain of salt, but he is the one asking interesting questions. The mainstream scientists are handwaving like mad, the data keep being "awkward", let's say.

Popcorn time.

 

[BingBong]

Doop

 

[Pypkė]

It is interesting, but it's too far away to completely discern what's going on with this object.

 

[The Benedictine]

 

[Peter Turbo]

I have a passing interest in astronomy and stellar phenomenon but they will do/say anything at this point to move the conversation away from the Epstein files.

Quick, tell them it has lights, tell them an asteroid might hit the earth or moon in 2032!
Distract
Distract
Distract!

 

[Auxsender]

Probably just a big ball of metal.

 

[Alejo R.]

The big question, of course, is "Will it land in Washington, DC?"



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only if that has a very good insurance

 

[Alejo R.]

We have to take Avi Loeb with a grain of salt, but he is the one asking interesting questions. The mainstream scientists are handwaving like mad, the data keep being "awkward", let's say.

Popcorn time.

Loeb has been declaring that everything is of extraterrestrial intelligence origin for 10 years.

 

[Alejo R.]

Probably just a big ball of metal.

probably hydrogen.

 

[Alejo R.]

It's a very interesting topic. It's the third interstellar object we've detected. Some will say it's curious that we suddenly found three such objects in just a few years, and others will say we've just reached the technological point where we can detect them and that they've always existed. I'm more interested in the hypothetical ninth planet.

 

[PA Piper Mike]

I'm more interested in the hypothetical ninth planet.

Same here...I saw an Episode of How the Universe works a while ago and Mike Brown (1 of the astronomers that demoted Pluto to a dwarf planet) said that they found evidence that Planet 9 really exists and it's only a matter of time when they find it. The did a scale of the solar system which had the sun as the size of a kick ball and the Earth being something like 50 yards away....and that put Planet 9 on that scale, the size of a bb at 18 MILES away at it's furthest point.

 

[anantaandroscoggin]

only if that has a very good insurance

The object, or Washington DC?

 

[Alejo R.]

The object, or Washington DC?

The flying saucer of course

 

[Alejo R.]

The big question, of course, is "Will it land in Washington, DC?"



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If a star civilization were to arrive on Earth today, it would probably be a Strugatsky-style situation in Picnic by the Roadside.

 

[sablebrush52]

It’s a cookbook.