Avi Loeb

It's opposite to the direction of dust and gas around comets that is away from the sun.

And moreover, we see that, in fact, I have a paper that I'm about to publish where we analyze the...

images from the Hubble Space Telescope, 17 images that were obtained between November 30th and December 27th, 2025.

And we measured the orientation of the jet structure around Triadlas, and we saw that it's wobbling.

by 20 degrees.

So the situation is similar to the beam coming from a lighthouse.

As the lighthouse rotates, the beam is not aligned with the rotation axis, so it sweeps along a cone.

That's what happens in a lighthouse.

And so the same is true about an object like Triatlus that is launching a jet.

The jet is wobbling as a result of its rotation.

And we can tell

that the rotation period is 7.1 hours.

We also see it in the brightness of the object that is periodically changing over a period of about 7.1 hours.

And then we can infer the rotation axis just from the average of the wobbling.

And we find that the rotation axis is within 10 to 20 degrees.

aligned with the direction to the sun at large distances.

So once again, there is this geometric coincidence that Trier Atlas has a very low probability of having its rotation axis in the direction of the sun.

If it was perfectly aligned with the direction of the sun at large distances, it would mean that it has a permanent day side, a permanent night side as it approaches the sun.

And then when it recedes, the two poles of the rotation axis

reversed and you get the pole that was previously in the night side becoming the day side and so forth.