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Briane Nebria

3I/ATLAS Update: Data Suggest 'Artificially Guided' Object Defying Physics

Hubble captured this image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on July 21, 2025, when the comet was 277 million miles from Earth. Hubble shows that the comet has a teardrop-shaped cocoon of dust coming off its solid, icy nucleus. (Credit: NASA, ESA, David Jewitt UCLA/NASA)

A massive, Manhattan-sized object is speeding through our solar system, and it is behaving strangely. Designated 3I/ATLAS (discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System telescope), this interstellar visitor is accelerating without a visible, gravitational cause and has recently turned a 'startlingly blue' colour.

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