Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb told Newsmax on Thursday that the interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS has exhibited unexpected behavior, including an increase in brightness and a shift to a bluer hue, while raising concerns that key images taken during the object’s Mars fly-by have yet to be released by NASA.
On “Finnerty,” Loeb said that “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’s perihelion, so to speak.”
He added: “Moreover, the color of the object is blue, bluer than the sun. And that’s very surprising, because usually when there is dust around an object, it should make it red.
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