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🔭 History does repeat!
December 9, 2025 at 10:35 AM
🔭 History does repeat!
This sort of behavior can be dangerous
Imagine a chilling alternate timeline where Heaven's Gate had a "credible" Loeb-style figure who proclaimed that the collimated jets on Hale-Bopp despite it's 11 hour spin were proof of gimballed technological thrusters....
Imagine a chilling alternate timeline where Heaven's Gate had a "credible" Loeb-style figure who proclaimed that the collimated jets on Hale-Bopp despite it's 11 hour spin were proof of gimballed technological thrusters....
December 9, 2025 at 4:46 AM
This sort of behavior can be dangerous
Imagine a chilling alternate timeline where Heaven's Gate had a "credible" Loeb-style figure who proclaimed that the collimated jets on Hale-Bopp despite it's 11 hour spin were proof of gimballed technological thrusters....
Imagine a chilling alternate timeline where Heaven's Gate had a "credible" Loeb-style figure who proclaimed that the collimated jets on Hale-Bopp despite it's 11 hour spin were proof of gimballed technological thrusters....
🔭 In reality, Hale-Bopp did have smeared jets. But they were much fainter and appeared alongside the collimated jets
(wirtanen.astro.umd.edu/46P/coma_mor...)
This article lists the nuances of coma morphology and why smeared jets can be hard to capture (Filters, spin axis, geometry, nuclei sources)
(wirtanen.astro.umd.edu/46P/coma_mor...)
This article lists the nuances of coma morphology and why smeared jets can be hard to capture (Filters, spin axis, geometry, nuclei sources)
December 9, 2025 at 4:46 AM
🔭 In reality, Hale-Bopp did have smeared jets. But they were much fainter and appeared alongside the collimated jets
(wirtanen.astro.umd.edu/46P/coma_mor...)
This article lists the nuances of coma morphology and why smeared jets can be hard to capture (Filters, spin axis, geometry, nuclei sources)
(wirtanen.astro.umd.edu/46P/coma_mor...)
This article lists the nuances of coma morphology and why smeared jets can be hard to capture (Filters, spin axis, geometry, nuclei sources)
🔭☄️Notably, one of Loeb's "anomalies" of 3I/Atlas is that it's jets are collimated and unsmeared by its 16 hour spin
Yet Hale-Bopp also exhibited a similar phenomenon of collimated jets despite it's faster 11 hour spin
Yet Hale-Bopp also exhibited a similar phenomenon of collimated jets despite it's faster 11 hour spin
December 9, 2025 at 4:46 AM
🔭☄️Notably, one of Loeb's "anomalies" of 3I/Atlas is that it's jets are collimated and unsmeared by its 16 hour spin
Yet Hale-Bopp also exhibited a similar phenomenon of collimated jets despite it's faster 11 hour spin
Yet Hale-Bopp also exhibited a similar phenomenon of collimated jets despite it's faster 11 hour spin
🔭 Random astronomy project (too much cloudy skies for telescope)
Trying to model the nucleus of Halley's comet based on flyby missions, I hope I'll live long enough to see a mission to Halley comet 🤞
Trying to model the nucleus of Halley's comet based on flyby missions, I hope I'll live long enough to see a mission to Halley comet 🤞
December 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
🔭 Random astronomy project (too much cloudy skies for telescope)
Trying to model the nucleus of Halley's comet based on flyby missions, I hope I'll live long enough to see a mission to Halley comet 🤞
Trying to model the nucleus of Halley's comet based on flyby missions, I hope I'll live long enough to see a mission to Halley comet 🤞
🔭 I'm surprised I was still able to capture the moons of Saturn, despite our own full moon's glow
#astronomy #space #science
#astronomy #space #science
December 4, 2025 at 1:28 AM
🔭 I'm surprised I was still able to capture the moons of Saturn, despite our own full moon's glow
#astronomy #space #science
#astronomy #space #science
Anyways the JPL model actually relates to CO2 outgassing and not luminosity. But it's funny that his own idea of using a steeper 1/r^{7.5} is shot dead by his own source. And it's literally possible to have a "short segment" that's "steeper" than the average. That's the basics in Calculus
November 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Anyways the JPL model actually relates to CO2 outgassing and not luminosity. But it's funny that his own idea of using a steeper 1/r^{7.5} is shot dead by his own source. And it's literally possible to have a "short segment" that's "steeper" than the average. That's the basics in Calculus
🔭 Blud (Avi) "forgot" about calculus 😭🙏
November 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM
🔭 Blud (Avi) "forgot" about calculus 😭🙏
☄️🔭 Of course, it is not astronomically rare for a satellite to appear to streak across the center of a comet. Upon brief searching I've found a similar occurrence on another comet, it is possible there are even more examples in other comet pics too:
November 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
☄️🔭 Of course, it is not astronomically rare for a satellite to appear to streak across the center of a comet. Upon brief searching I've found a similar occurrence on another comet, it is possible there are even more examples in other comet pics too:
I see some people bashing NASA for the blurry HiRise images of 3I/Atlas because amateur astronomers were able to take better photos of it. But correct me if I'm wrong, HiRise is meant to photograph the martian surface, so it's like expecting a nearsighted person to see a distant thing clearly? 🔭
November 20, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I see some people bashing NASA for the blurry HiRise images of 3I/Atlas because amateur astronomers were able to take better photos of it. But correct me if I'm wrong, HiRise is meant to photograph the martian surface, so it's like expecting a nearsighted person to see a distant thing clearly? 🔭
It seems Avi Loeb is convinced the Optical anti tail, are the same ''Real anti tail''. Someone better correct him as soon as possible (preferably on live tv or something)
November 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
It seems Avi Loeb is convinced the Optical anti tail, are the same ''Real anti tail''. Someone better correct him as soon as possible (preferably on live tv or something)
🔭☄️I should note since early observations of 3I/Atlas were performed when it was in a low phase angle relative to the earth, the ''real'' anti-tail would appear Infront of the coma and nucleus while the tail would be behind it. Thus, the real anti-tail would seem more prominent over the actual tails
November 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM
🔭☄️I should note since early observations of 3I/Atlas were performed when it was in a low phase angle relative to the earth, the ''real'' anti-tail would appear Infront of the coma and nucleus while the tail would be behind it. Thus, the real anti-tail would seem more prominent over the actual tails
🔭☄️ Now given 3I/ATLAS' current trajectory in Nov, we should be seeing an Optical anti tail too, I've drawn over this image from the Sky live website to show the Optical anti tail effect on 3I/ATLAS caused by the position of earth (thus viewer) relative to 3I/ATLAS moving away from the sun.
November 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM
🔭☄️ Now given 3I/ATLAS' current trajectory in Nov, we should be seeing an Optical anti tail too, I've drawn over this image from the Sky live website to show the Optical anti tail effect on 3I/ATLAS caused by the position of earth (thus viewer) relative to 3I/ATLAS moving away from the sun.
🔭☄️I've found some other pictures and info relating to ''Real'' anti tails. C/2012 S1 ISON generated plumes of dust sunwards in the months before its perihelion (left image). 67p/C-G observed by Rosetta undergoing a sunward outburst which could be happening on 3I/Atlas (Right image)
November 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM
🔭☄️I've found some other pictures and info relating to ''Real'' anti tails. C/2012 S1 ISON generated plumes of dust sunwards in the months before its perihelion (left image). 67p/C-G observed by Rosetta undergoing a sunward outburst which could be happening on 3I/Atlas (Right image)
So a Real anti tail is more like a sunward coma, not as long as a tail. Right image shows a temporary sunward coma of the B-B comet currently pre-perihelion (at 20+ au), likely caused by anisotropic heating. To the right we see a different comet C/2023 A3 at post perihelion with an Optical anti tail
November 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
So a Real anti tail is more like a sunward coma, not as long as a tail. Right image shows a temporary sunward coma of the B-B comet currently pre-perihelion (at 20+ au), likely caused by anisotropic heating. To the right we see a different comet C/2023 A3 at post perihelion with an Optical anti tail
I think it's important to clarify the tails of 3I ATLAS, its showing both the "Real" and Optical anti-tail, which have different causes.
The left image shows ATLAS Real anti tail, pre-perihelion.
And the right image we see an Optical anti tail post-perihelion (which it when typically appears)
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The left image shows ATLAS Real anti tail, pre-perihelion.
And the right image we see an Optical anti tail post-perihelion (which it when typically appears)
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November 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I think it's important to clarify the tails of 3I ATLAS, its showing both the "Real" and Optical anti-tail, which have different causes.
The left image shows ATLAS Real anti tail, pre-perihelion.
And the right image we see an Optical anti tail post-perihelion (which it when typically appears)
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The left image shows ATLAS Real anti tail, pre-perihelion.
And the right image we see an Optical anti tail post-perihelion (which it when typically appears)
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November 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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🔭 I think I made a mistake 🤔
November 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🔭 I think I made a mistake 🤔
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