Tag: comet

  • 3I/Atlas’ quiet passing: Maybe the aliens just need gas from Jupiter after all

    3I/Atlas’ quiet passing: Maybe the aliens just need gas from Jupiter after all

    So… is everyone good?

    December 19 was the newest conspiracy day.. the big one. HUGE changes, we were told.. stay indoors and hide! The Comet is passing by! The world will be hit! Aliens will land!

    Just a few days ago we were told by the media that Comet ATLAS was going to pass closer to Earth than ever before. And when you hear that, you’re led to believe that “close” means visible. Like it’s in our neighborhood. Our backyard. Something you’ll look up and actually see.


    But no. Not really.


    “Closest” here doesn’t mean close in any practical sense. It means close in science and space terms. The closest point of its trajectory relative to us, not close enough to matter in the way people immediately imagine. We’re talking really far away.


    So we’re good, right?


    Aliens didn’t land. Although, of course, some of the seers and psychics among us are claiming a path has shifted, a cycle has changed, or that we’ve entered some new phase of existence. Maybe we did. Still feels the same to me. I don’t know about you, but there’s not much difference between yesterday and today.
    That said, there is still a mystery here.


    The more sensational idea is that this comet—or whatever it actually is, because we don’t truly know—was detected emitting a strange radio signal. That discovery reportedly happened back in October, when a radio telescope in South Africa picked up something unusual. Now that is where things get interesting, because comets don’t typically behave that way.


    The object is expected to pass about 33.3 million miles from Jupiter on March 16, 2026. After that, it should be on its merry way out of our solar system. We think.


    Unless, of course, the aliens onboard are more interested in a gas giant than us. Maybe they just need more fuel.
    It’s funny, though. We really do have a tendency to make everything about ourselves, don’t we?

  • Nasa blurs the lines

    Nasa blurs the lines

    NASA hosted a special press conference yesterday to unveil images and to answer questions around the mysterious interstellar 3I/Atlas object that’s caught the attention of the public and the imagination of some scientists that believe this may be an alien spacecraft.

    NASA only shared very blurry or very pixelated images of the  object..

    Keep in mind that we were told the budget issue and government closure was delaying images coming out. We had to rely on amateur astronomers or other countries..

    We all waited holding our breath for the big giant reveal from NASA of the images that would absolutely showcase this being a comment. Instead the mystery now deepens because NASA gave us things that clearly are worse than what even amateur astronomers gave us.

    Like Jordan Crowder said … Very embarrassing

  • A new image of 3I/Atlas raises eyebrows

    A new image of 3I/Atlas raises eyebrows

    The photo appears to show a plume of some kind of material on one side, along with emissions  off the opposite side. 

    Cue Harvard scientist, Avi Loeb.. he believes these images of the  mysterious interstellar object named 3I/ATLAS could be additional evidence of  a type of jet engine or propulsion system on board an alien spacecraft.  In recent weeks, the object has captivated scientists’ attentions and peoples’ imaginations on what exactly this thing moving through our solar system is.

    And as new imagery has become available, Loeb continues to express concern that this object, which should near Earth in mid-December, may not be a comet but rather an alien spacecraft instead.

    MORE..

    In his blog on Medium, with new imagery in hand, Loeb writes, “The image shows two anti-tail jets out to 10 arcminutes towards the Sun accompanied by a longer collimated jet, extending away from the Sun out to an angular separation of 30 arcminutes, roughly the diameter of the Sun or the Moon. At the current distance of 3I/ATLAS from Earth, 326 million kilometers, these angular extents correspond to spatial sizes of 0.95 million kilometers for the sunward anti-tail jets and 2.85 million kilometers for the tail jet away from the Sun. This enormous spatial scale is three orders of magnitude larger than the scale of the glowing halo around 3I/ATLAS in the Hubble Space Telescope image from July 21, 2025.”..

  • The comet may not have a tail but it could have small alien ships deployed

    The comet may not have a tail but it could have small alien ships deployed

    Avi Loeb is back — at this point he’s basically our best friend in the UFO world. In his latest review of the 3I/ATLAS comet, he indicates that the newest photographs show evidence of thrusters. Yes, thrusters. And there are even claims that additional “ships” may have separated from a so-called “main mothership.”

    On the surface, it all sounds like pure science fiction. Total fantasy. But here we are in 2025. We’ve all lived through enough strangeness to know that nothing is off the table anymore. And the thing about Loeb is — he actually backs this with data.

    Loeb writes in his blog

    “Given that a large number of jets appear in many directions, the reported non-gravitational acceleration of 3I/ATLAS requires much more than 10–20% of its initial mass to have been ejected near perihelion. Only a fraction of that mass carries an excess momentum in a preferred direction. This means that the cloud of debris around 3I/ATLAS must represent a substantial fraction of its initial mass for a natural comet. However, technological thrusters could give the object a boost with much less mass jetted out at a higher speed.”

    He then asks the simple but massive question:

    “Is the network of jets associated with pockets of ice on the surface of a natural cometary nucleus, or are they coming from a set of jet thrusters used for navigation of a spacecraft?”

    And the answer Loeb gives?

    “We do not know.”

    3I/ATLAS is expected to make its closest approach to Earth on December 19, 2025.

    Stacked telescope images reportedly show a “large glowing halo extending out to half a million kilometers” with at least seven distinct jet structures. That’s not typical comet behavior. That’s weird behavior. According to Loeb — Harvard astrophysicist, not random guy on Reddit — this thing is acting unlike anything we’ve documented before.

    I’m not sure if the world is paying attention. We are. And a handful of scientists and space-watchers are. But this feels like a much bigger deal than it’s being treated as.

    Even if 3I/ATLAS turns out to be a completely natural comet, the oddities alone suggest something rare — something we don’t commonly see in our solar system. That alone is exciting, possibly even paradigm-shifting.

    But if Loeb is right… and if these jets are not natural outgassing… and if this object is maneuvering…

    Well, then we’re looking at something even more profound.

    A lot of people have laughed at Loeb over the past few years. Some still are. But the more images that come in, the less funny this comet looks. There’s something off about it. Something that doesn’t fit.

    Alien spacecraft? Let’s not go that far yet.

    But weird?
    Yes.
    Deeply, undeniably weird.

    And sometimes weird is where everything starts.

  • NASA is still using the government shutdown as the reason it won’t release 3I/Atlas comet images — but we have another visitor!

    NASA is still using the government shutdown as the reason it won’t release 3I/Atlas comet images — but we have another visitor!

    Avi Loeb and others are stating it is due to the fact that Atlas is an alien craft..

    Well maybe it is.

    But for now the official story continues to be the shut down..

    “NASA is a part of the federal government, which is currently shut down. Communications that do not pertain to the safety of property or life are not excepted,” read a statement sent to LADbible from the agency.

    “Imagery will be released once the government reopens.”

    Hopefully, that will be before the comet passes the sun and heads back out into space.

    So it would be assumed we WILL see Atlas at some point. Maybe edited? Then again.. the editors may be laid off right now, too..

    AND JUST WHEN WE THOUGHT WE ONLY HAD ONE!

    NASA QUIETLY LOGS ANOTHER INTERSTELLAR VISITOR

    Comet C/2025 V1 just appeared in NASA’s official JPL database — and it’s NOT from our solar system.

    🪐 Discovered Oct 29… nearly 100 confirmed observations already… and its orbit is hyperbolic — meaning it’s just passing through.

    Here’s the wild part — it’s NOT connected to 3I/ATLAS, the other interstellar object now in motion.

    That makes TWO unbound travelers moving through our neighborhood at the same time.

  • The comet lost his tail

    The comet lost his tail

    The comet Atlas — or maybe we should say “comet,” because things are getting weird — is back in the news again. For months now, Harvard Professor Avi Loeb has been talking about the strange anomalies surrounding Comet 3I/ATLAS. Researchers have noted unusual behavior, odd trajectories, and now we have the latest curveball.

    Today, Loeb published a new analysis after reviewing the latest post-perihelion images released by NASA. And according to him…

    There’s no comet tail.

    That’s right. This object doesn’t appear to be producing the tail you’d expect at this stage. Which is, naturally, a little strange — considering that comets are known for having tails, especially when they get this close to the Sun. The whole thing raises more questions than answers.

    You can read Loeb’s full write-up here:


    https://avi-loeb.medium.com/no-clear-cometary-tail-in-post-perihelion-images-of-3i-atlas-e3904b352a7a

    So where does that leave us?

    Right now, it leaves us waiting.
    The comet (or object, or whatever label we want to cautiously use) makes its closest approach in December, which means we have plenty of time for more data, more analysis… and probably more conversation from Avi Loeb. He never shies away from wondering aloud when something looks out of place in the cosmos.

    And honestly? We’re here for it.

    Are we saying it’s aliens?
    No.
    Are we saying people who are saying it’s aliens are automatically wrong?
    Also no.

    Let’s just say this:
    The universe is strange.
    Sometimes stranger than we’re prepared for.

    So we’ll watch.
    We’ll wait.
    And we’ll see what this thing in the sky decides to show us next.

    December is going to be interesting.

  • BLUE LIGHT SPECIAL: 3I/ATLAS gets hot

    BLUE LIGHT SPECIAL: 3I/ATLAS gets hot

    Here is what we know now..

    The Manhattan-sized interstellar object 3I/ATLAS exhibited signs of non-gravitational acceleration and appeared “bluer than the Sun” as it passed our local star — which could be signs of an alien craft “engine,” according to Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb.

    The object’s non-gravitational acceleration was recorded by NASA this week and indicated a dramatic outgassing which would be expected from a comet — and would mean the object would lose half its mass and exhibit a huge plume of debris in the coming months.

    And here is what professor Avi Loeb had to say..

    “Alternatively, the non-gravitational acceleration might be the technological signature of an internal engine,” he wrote in a Medium post Friday. “This might also explain the report on 3I/ATLAS getting ‘bluer than Sun.’” “It could potentially be explained by a hot engine or source of artificial light,” he wrote, adding that it could also be a natural signature of a comet.

    Loab keeps making the scientific community a bit nervous openly discussing just how weird this comet is. Whether it is an alien on a ship or just something we have never experienced before –maybe new elements not on our periodic table!– it is exciting and really admirable that he was able to put this comet into the lexicon of our lives…

    SPACE.COM has a more conservative approach to the blue light special:

    “The reason for 3I’s rapid brightening, which far exceeds the brightening rate of most Oort cloud comets at similar r [radial distance], remains unclear,” the scientists behind the research, Qicheng Zhang of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and Karl Battams, an astrophysicist at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington DC, write in a paper discussing the observation published on the research repository site arXiv.

    The rapid brightening of 3I/ATLAS was observed by STEREO-A and STEREO-B, the twin spacecraft that make up Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), by the sun observing Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), and the weather satellite GOES-19. The space-based observations were necessary because ground-based instruments won’t be able to observe the interstellar comet again until it passes out from the other side of the sun into its “postperihelion” phase, escaping the glare of starlight in mid- to late-November 2025.


    Some have become worried about a path change..,


    And at least one person in government says she wants NASA to reveal more.. a letter from Rep Ana Paulina Luna goes public:

    DEVELOPING..

  • Avi Loeb suggests to take a vacation while money still matters

    Avi Loeb suggests to take a vacation while money still matters

    Professor Avi Loeb says 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object from beyond our solar system, is closing in fast.

    “I don’t know if there will be meaning to money if this object turns out to be technological, after October 29th.

    If you want to take a vacation, take it before that date. Because who knows what will happen.”

    Developing…

  • The light from Atlas

    The light from Atlas

    So we were not necessarily incredulous about it, we did offer some guarded doubt regarding Atlas being an alien craft…

    So … then there is this!

    It has been observed that the ‘comet’ is now generating its own light..

    In a blog post over the weekend, Loeb pointed to observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, which showed a “glow of light, likely from a coma, ahead of the motion of 3I/ATLAS towards the Sun.”

    A coma is the hazy and luminous cloud that surrounds the nucleus of a comet.

    However, there’s “no evidence for a bright cometary tail in the opposite direction,” he wrote, with scientists suggesting it was evidence that dust was evaporating from the object’s Sun-facing side.

    The observations led Loeb and his colleagues to an intriguing, albeit far-fetched possibility: is the mysterious space object generating “its own light?”

    ….let’s get ready!

  • 2023 is the year of the Green comet!

    2023 is the year of the Green comet!

    This seems to be pretty historic!

    A green bright comet named C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is set to make its closest approach to Earth in two weeks, the comet was discovered in March when transiting through Jupiter’s orbit, E3 will reach perihelion on January 8, after that will be visible without glasses..

    This is pretty rare, as space sites are reporting.

    Here is what is known:

    It was discovered in March 2022. NASA reported that the rare green comet was spotted using a wide-field survey camera at CalTech’s Zwicky Transient Facility within Jupiter’s orbit.

    Since then, it has hurdled ever closer to the Sun, and as NASA noted in a post about the comet, it will reach its perigee, or closest point to us on Earth, on February 1.

    From everything mainstream sources are reporting, This phenomenon has not happened in 10,000 years..

    And get this!

    NASA data suggests that the last time this gorgeous green goblin came this close to Earth was about 50,000 years ago..

    In reality that means that the last humans to ever witness it were likely Ice Age-era Neanderthals..

    And how many times was it seen prior than 50,000 years back? Did dinosaurs witness it as they roamed the earth..? Amazing stuff, this space .. and amazing what we will soon see with our naked earthly eyes.