Avi Loeb

So that was in the published literature.

Eventually, the statement made that it's obviously natural.

And it illustrates the fact that the carbonyl process used by our industries also happens in nature.

This is very strange.

So we have hypothesis A, well, we've never seen that before, so it's false.

And then hypothesis B, we've never seen that before, so it's true.

Yes.

So that's about the composition.

Then there is an anti-tail that was visible from the beginning, opposite to what you find in comets, where the gas and dust are pushed away from the sun.

In this case, there is a jet pointing at the sun.

And in the most recent 40 or so images from the Hubble Space Telescope in recent months, I analyzed them with a collaborator, an observer from Italy.

And we removed the spherical glow around the nucleus of 3i Atlas, and whatever was left showed three mini jets coming from the nucleus equally separated from each other.

So it looks very symmetric, as if these were meant to balance the object.

This sounds like maneuvering thrusters.

Yeah, it could be thrusters.

And I didn't even bother to publish it in the Astrophysical Journal, because it will be killed, and why would I waste my time?

But I did publish, or submit for publication, the report about the three jets without interpretation.

And the response of the editor was, this is not of interest to the astrophysics community.

But you have images of the jets, yes?

Yeah.