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Servia Martia Nemoris @nemoris.bsky.social

It's called 3I/ATLAS, named for (*sigh*) the "Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System" which discovered it. It's an interstellar comet which is passing through the solar system. Like ʻOumuamua before it, it's prompted a bunch of fruitcakes to make claims about aliens and prophecies and shit.

aug 31, 2025, 6:26 am • 5 1

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Servia Martia Nemoris @nemoris.bsky.social

The glow they're referring to may be a plume on the object's sun-facing side, where heating is causing outgassing. This has been picked up by conspiracists who claim it's an engine plume or, at least, that it's Mysterious™ because a comet tail should face away from the sun. (It's not a tail.)

aug 31, 2025, 6:29 am • 4 1 • view