All that you must know as ‘alien spaceship’ 3I/ATLAS ‘grows tail’ pointed on the Sun

A mysterious space lump hurtling through our solar system dubbed 31/ATLAS is yet again raising fears it is an alien spaceship and not a comet as boffins found it has an ‘anti-tail’ pointed at the Sun

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Everything you need to know about the ‘alien spaceship’ 3I/ATLAS as boffins discover it has alarming ‘anti-tail’ pointed at the Sun

• Boffins were sent into a tizzy after an ‘anti-tail’ pointed directly at the Sun was discovered on the much-talked about ‘alien spaceship’ or comet 3I/ATLAS.
• Astronomers immediately picked up on a weird feature which sets it apart from normal comets after Austrian astrophotographer Michael Jäger released his latest image of the Manhattan-sized interstellar visitor.
• “What looks at first like a beautifully extended comet tail becomes, under closer inspection, a forensic puzzle,” wrote an expert. “An unnaturally sharp anti-tail pointing directly toward the sun… violates the basic physics that govern ordinary comet behaviour.”
• Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has warned several times that 31/ATLAS doesn’t look or act like a comet.
• Loeb’s pointed to a host of weird features, including evidence of thrusters. He recently suggested the spaceship may have dropped off probes to study Jupiter.
• However, the ball busters at NASA held a conference to specifically address the rumours around 3I/ATLAS where they said it was “just a comet”.
• But legal expert Samuel Lopez is now backing Loeb’s claims as the object nears its closest point to Earth on December 19.
• Reviewing the latest image using techniques from legal cases, he claims to have reached an “unavoidable” conclusion. “This object continues to defy the natural explanations expected of icy debris passing through our solar system,” he writes.
• READ FULL STGORY HERE: ‘Alien ship’ 3I/ATLAS grows dagger-sharp anti-tail pointing directly towards the Sun

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