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Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS's Tail Appears To Have Changed Direction, Nordic Optical Telescope Finds - IFLScience

"If the object is an alien spacecraft slowing down, and the anti-tail is braking thrust, then this change from anti-tail to tail would be entirely expected near perihelion," Avi Loeb wrote, but there is a better explanation.

Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS's Tail Appears To Have Changed Direction, Nordic Optical Telescope Finds - IFLScience

New observations from the Nordic Optical Telescope, in the Canary Islands, Spain, suggest that 3I/ATLAS's unusual anti-solar tail has changed direction, becoming dominated by a tail that faces away f… [+6452 chars]

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