Interstellar visitor

[Kenzo1]

A post-Perihelion picture of 3I/Atlas has been released which was taken by the Hubble space telescope on November 30th showing the scale of object's coma and the nucleus within.

The interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS was reobserved by the Hubble Space Telescope from a distance of 286 million kilometers on November 30, 2025, a month after its closest approach to the Sun (perihelion). The image shows a teardrop-shaped glowing halo that extends towards the Sun. This sunward anti-tail extension was also apparent in the pre-perihelion Hubble image of 3I/ATLAS, taken on July 21, 2025, as 3I/ATLAS was approaching the Sun from a distance that is 56% larger from Earth. The new radius of the glow is about 40,000 kilometers and its anti-tail extension goes out to about 60,000 kilometers.

In a recent paper, accessible here, I suggested that the teardrop of the coma in post-perihelion images of 3I/ATLAS is associated with a large number of macroscopic non-volatile objects that separated from it as a result of its measured non-gravitational acceleration away from the Sun. My paper predicted that by November 30th, the swarm of objects would be closer to the Sun than 3I/ATLAS by about 60,000 kilometers if the objects overlapped with 3I/ATLAS at perihelion. This separation is in perfect agreement with the anti-tail extension of the teardrop shape in the new Hubble image.

https://avi-loeb.medium.com/a-new-hubble...6b4c7b2dd0

Just 13 days till its closest pass of Earth.

If the pictures are not getting any better, i will be dissapointed . To me the images we seen are grainy low quality dots that tell`s absolutely not much, or not enough .