3I/ATLAS Undergoes JAW-DROPPING Changes

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The unexpected happened. Three iat lists changed. It went from glowing green to glowing in the blue spectrum. We thought Three Eye Atlas would be hidden behind the Sun for weeks because most of our technology cannot observe it.

During this time, scientists expected it to either break apart from the intense heat or simply fade as it made its closest approach. And now fresh data suggests something even stranger is going on with this interstellar visitor. Today we're breaking down the newest scientific paper examining what NASA's instruments captured at closest approach to the Sun and exploring why some researchers are raising eyebrows about data that keeps getting stranger. As always, I'm here to report the information without bias, and you can decide what to believe.

You can find the sources in my detailed articles at ufonews dot com along within the description box below. Hey you follow yours. I'm Christina Gomez and welcome to this episode of UFO News Updates. A new paper published on October twenty eighth by researchers G.

Chung Shong from Low Observatory and Carl Badams from the US Naval Research Laboratory documents something that is crazy. Between September and October of this year, as three eye atlasts approached its closest point to the Sun, a brightened at a rate never before recorded of any commet. The team analyzed data from multiple space instruments, including Stereo a's camera, the SOHO observatory, and GO nineteen's coronagraph. These are satellites that continuously monitor the Sun and happened to capture three I Atlas during a period when Earth based telescopes couldn't observe it due to the solar glare.

The comet's brightness increased with the power scaling of negative seven point five to put them into contacts. Typical commets brightened at rates between negative two and negative four as they approach the Sun. This means three I Atlas was getting dramatically brighter, far faster than any known solar system comment what could be the conventional rent for that? Either way, getting data is challenging.

Here's what Avi Lop had to say on NEWSMACS. I corresponded with Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, who promised to get in touch with NASA and encourage them to release the data because the principal investigator is at the University of Arizona, is not a NASA employee, and moreover, it's time to share the data with the scientific community, even if they don't want to make a press release. That it has nothing to do with communicating it to the media. It has to do with scientific practice allowing us to plan the observations ahead or what we already know.

Beyond the unusual brightening, the research paper documents something even more bizarre. When scientists analyze the color of three ialysts using different filters on the Alasco Corona graph, they discovered the comment appeared distinctly bluer than the Sun, and this finding contradicts basic physics. Helmets are covered in dust and ice. Dust scatters light in a way that makes objects appear redder, not bluer.

Additionally, the surface temperature of three eye atlas should be approximately twenty times cooler than the Sun's photosphere, which sits at about five eight hundred degrees kelvin. The research paper suggests two possible explanations. First, gas emissions from molecules like carbon monoxide when heated. Carbon dioxide and ammonia could be contributing significant visual light.

These gases can produce blue wavelengths when excited by solar radiation. The second possibility involves heat sources we have not yet identified. If three Eye Atlas is predominantly ice and dusty as expected, explaining temperatures high enough to produce blue light becomes extremely difficult. But if you thought that was weird, it only gets more weird, So stay with me on this.

The day after three Eye Atlas reached its closest approach to the Sun, a NASA engineer by the name of David Pharnosia reported something rather unusual. He discovered that forces other than just gravity are now pushing and pulling on this object as it travels through space. The measurements showed the comet is being pushed away from the Sun at one hundred and thirty five kilometers per day squared, and it is also being nudged sideways at sixty kilometers per day squared. Now, for normal comets, this kind of push usually comes from ice heating up and turning into gas, which shoots off the surface like a rocket engine in slow motion.

If this pushing force is coming from normal ice turning to gas, the math tells us something important. At the speed this is happening, three I Atlas would be losing about half of its total mass every six months. That is a massive amount of material being thrown off in a very short time. If this continues, scientists should be able to see a huge cloud of gas and dust around the comet when it gets closer to Earth in December, which would prove is what is actually happening.

You know, yesterday was a special day. That was the day when three I Atlas came closest to the Sun. We cannot observe it from Earth because the Sun is between us and this object. However, there are several instruments that were able to observe it that are looking at the Sun, and some of them are satellites.

And as of this morning, we have a report that the object got much brighter than expected, much brighter than any previous comet from the Solar System did as it approached the sun perihelium, so to speak. And moreover, the color of the object is blue, bluer than the Sun, and that's very surprising. The scientific paper projects that if these trends continue, three I Atlasts should be visible at approximately magnitude nine invisible light as it emerges from behind the Sun, and that is bright enough to be seen through amateur telescopes. The European Space Agencies Juice spacecraft, currently traveling toward Jupiter, is positioned to make observations in early November.

However, because Juice uses its communication dish as a heat shield when pointed at the Sun, the data will not be transmitted back to Earth until February twenty twenty six surprise prize. The real test comes on December nineteenth, when three I Atlas makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance of two hundred and sixty nine million kilometers, and at that point, hundreds of ground based telescopes, along with the Hubble Space Telescope and potentially the James Web Space Telescope, will have clear views. If three I Atlists lost ten percent of its mass throughout gassing, as the math suggests that should be obvious, there should be a massive plume of gas and dust visible surrounding the odd Scientists will be able to measure the composition of that material through spectroscopy, breaking down the line into its component wavelengths to identify specific molecules.

The observation will also reveal whether the blue color persists or was a temporary phenomenon related to peak heating. If it was ionized carbon monoxide, as some researchers suggest, we should see specific emission lines in that spectrum. If it was something else, the December observation might give us our first real clues. However, one critical piece of information remains missing.

Despite multiple requests from scientists and even congressional representatives, NASA has not released high resolution images taken by the high rise camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance orbiter on October seconds. That instrument captured three i atlasts at a distance where its thirty megapixel camera could potentially resolve surface features. Hmm, I wonder why acting NASA had Sean Duffy mentioned time and time again how transparent NASA is, but his words are not matching the actions. We are ultra transparent well.

Either way, The delay in releasing this data has raised questions, as it should. According to reporting from the IFL Science published on October thirtieth, three i at lists passed both solar conjunction and closest approach without breaking apart. The object remains intact, which is kind of unusual. It is currently within the orbit of Mars, but moving away from the Sun each day.

Now, what makes this object so valuable to science is where it came from. Three i Atlats formed around a completely different star in another solar system, potentially billions of years ago. Some scientists think it could be twice as old as our own solar system. By studying it, we get a very rare glimpse into how planets and comets formed highly different cosmic neighborhood, and that is one of the biggest takeaways from the object.

If it is natural, it still has so much to offer humanity to help us better understand space. As December approaches and more telescopes point towards three i at lists, we will be covering every major development, so make sure you're subscribed with notifications on so you do not miss any of the analysis. With those crucial observations coming in the next few months could answer a lot of our questions or raise entirely new ones. I'm christian Na Gomez and let's it for today.

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