No, Prof. Loeb -- 3I/ATLAS Is No More Than A Large Interstellar Ball Of Primordial Ices... And, Yet Our Last Great Chance To View It, Arrives Soon...

This is just a shortish late evening squib -- to make plain that Harvard's Prof. Avi Loeb is. . . not very credible, in his push to argue that the ice ball shows "signs of being the product of intelligent design".

But come mid-December, it will have moved far enough away from the Sun that the JWST will get a very good set of eyes on it -- the JWST has by far the best eyes human=kind has ever launched. And its infrared images -- at very high resolution, too -- of the supposed twin tails 3I/ATLAS now spouts. . . will be the definitive word on the subject.

No other telescope (on Earth, or in space) will have nearly as fine imagery of it. So do stay tuned, so we might definitively put this stuff to bed, with JWST data -- in a couple more months:

. . .NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Nov. 30, with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument. At the time, the comet was about 178 million miles (286 million kilometers) from Earth. Hubble tracked the comet as it moved across the sky. As a result, background stars appear as streaks of light.

Hubble previously observed 3I/ATLAS in July, shortly after its discovery, and a number of NASA missions have since studied the comet as well. Observations are expected to continue for several more months as 3I/ATLAS heads out of the solar system. . . .

Onward, smiling just the same. . . as Prof. Loeb does challenge us to think out of the box, to be sure.

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