Warning,
built in bias alert on its way:
Our Best View Yet of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
The Gemini North telescope in Hawaii
recently snapped a close-up of the comet that's captured the world’s attention.
Gizmodo 7/17/25
(Notice that it doesn't say when
the image was taken
just that it was:
Recently.)
Here is the image
"This image of interstellar comet 31/ATLAS was captured by the Gemini North telescope in Maunakea, Hawaii, revealing the comet's compact coma
International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/K. Meech (IfA/U. Hawaii) Image Processing: Jen Miller & Mahdi Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)'
"A comet unlike any seen before has fixated astronomers around the world. An observatory in Hawaii has unveiled the most stunning image of this ancient interstellar visitor yet."
(Then maybe its not a comet?
If it's
"unlike any seen before"
Im gonna apply the same exact logic
to a different situation:
"Hey bob there's a dog
that doesnt look,
or act like,
any other dog
we have ever
witnessed previously."
"Then how do you know its a dog Jim?"
Crickets...
"The telescope’s highly sensitive Multi-Object Spectrograph captured the comet’s compact coma—a cloud of gas and dust surrounding its icy nucleus—in striking detail. 3I/ATLAS is inbound to the inner solar system, and as it approaches the Sun and heats up, its coma will expand and make the comet appear brighter. Observing this uptick in activity, known as cometary outgassing, will allow astronomers to gain more insight into the composition of 3I/ATLAS. Understanding what this interstellar comet is made of will offer a glimpse of the conditions and processes that shaped the distant star system from which it came."
(Im two paragraphs in to this
and its already been called a comet seven times.
Overkill much?
Think thats an accident?
Cause I dont.
In fact, I know that is by design.)
"The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center confirmed that this comet came from outside our solar system on July 2. Since then, astronomers have been racing to gather as much data on it as possible. Preliminary findings suggest 3I/ATLAS is the oldest comet ever found, roughly 2 billion years older than our solar system. What’s more, it appears to have come from an underexplored region of the Milky Way’s galactic disk."
("Oldest ever",
"from an unexplored region"
See above about:
Then maybe its not a comet?
If it's
"unlike any seen before")
"This comet is older, larger, and faster than the two interstellar objects that came before it: ‘Oumuamua and Comet 2I/Borisov.
(I meant to point this out a while back
and have simply been forgetting to,
it's actually the forth
interstellar object
everybody is leaving out:
is Earth's 1st known interstellar visitor
Space.com 11/04/22
So here we go again with,
if the people who publish
articles like this?
Cant even get it right
about how many interstellar visitors
we have been able to confirm?
Then why should we trust them
in regard to what it actually is?
Kinda reminds me of the
"only the B2 can drop the bunker buster"
when easily found
publicly available information says otherwise.)
"One recent study, which has yet to undergo peer review, found that 3I/ATLAS has a hyperbolic velocity of about 37 miles per second (60 kilometers per second). That’s roughly twice the speed of both ‘Oumuamua and Borisov. The researchers also estimated the newly discovered comet to be up to 6 miles (10 kilometers) wide, which would make it 100 times wider than ‘Oumuamua and 10 times wider than Borisov. If 3I/ATLAS truly is that big, this would imply that galaxies are far more efficient at making these kinds of objects than scientists thought. The study authors note, however, that estimations of this comet’s size will likely shrink as astronomers gather more observations."
(It shouldn't exist if its as big as they think it is.)
"The comet should make its closest approach to our home star on October 29 and its closest approach to Earth on October 30. It will keep a safe distance from our planet, but the flyby will still allow astronomers to gather more detailed observations of this comet before it leaves our solar system for good."
"Such studies could begin to unravel the many mysteries of 3I/ATLAS, as its characteristics remain largely unknown. Still, it’s already becoming clear that this interstellar comet is totally different from any we’ve seen before, offering brand new insights into galactic processes beyond our solar system."
("its characteristics remain largely unknown"
"this ...is totally different from any we’ve seen before"
Then how do you know
what it is if:
"it's characteristics remain largely unknown"
"this ...is totally different from any we’ve seen before"
??????????)
And I got:
Comet mentioned 16 times in reference
to our interstellar visitor.
16x.
Overkill much?
Thats not by design?
You really have to have wanted
to say it is a comet a lot
in order for that to appear 16x.
Thats not like taking a sledgehammer
and just beating you over the head with it?
To make you think
it is what the author is saying it is?
If you dont think so?
You are more nuts than me.
Plain and simple.
Heres the thing that gets me,
Remember, this whole thing was about:
Our Best View Yet of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
"The telescope’s highly sensitive Multi-Object Spectrograph captured the comet’s compact coma—a cloud of gas and dust surrounding its icy nucleus—in striking detail. "
WHERE ARE THE RESUTS OF THAT INSTRUMENT?
THAT TOOK THAT PICTURE?
THEY ARE NOWHERE TO BE FOUND
IN THIS ARTICLE
JUST COMPLETELY MIA?
WHY?
Allow me to go get the only spectropic results
I can find anywhere for you
since
Ellyn is a science writer for Gizmodo primarily covering spaceflight and extreme weather, though she loves reporting on a wide range of topics. Prior to joining Gizmodo in May 2025, Ellyn's work appeared in Business Insider, Scientific American, Smithsonian Magazine online, and other outlets. She earned her master's degree in science journalism from New York University and a dual bachelor's degree in English and environmental science from the University of Vermont. Ellyn grew up skiing, hiking, and horseback riding in rural Vermont and is now based in Brooklyn, where she is always searching for ways to reconnect with nature in and around the city. This tends to include birding in various parks, hiking in the Hudson Valley, or observing backyard squirrels alongside her cat, Franklin.
apparently didn't know how
or had her piece edited by AI after she wrote it
or just plain didn't want to show them to you,
They are as follows:
Is 3I/ATLAS a Comet or Something Else?
Avi Loeb Medium 7/08/25
"...the first spectroscopic data on 3I/ATLAS was shared publicly in a new preprint by Cyrielle Opitom and collaborators.
"The reported observations were conducted on July 3, 2025, using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) spectrograph on the European Very Large Telescope (VLT)
"Opitom’s team searched for the spectral fingerprints of gas emission from various molecules, such as C_2, NH_2, CN, as well as neutral oxygen atoms, but did not detect any.
Well hang on a second now,
lets look again.
More recently:
Near-Discovery Observations of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
with the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
Cornell University 07/16/25
"Like 2I/Borisov, there are no obvious signatures of water ice in the coma of 3I/ATLAS. Observations closer to perihelion will help elucidate whether 3I has less water than anticipated or whether the Interstellar Objects might retain and release their ices somewhat differently than Solar System comets do.
(I know which one of those two options above
I would go with.
And?
Gizmodo or Cornell University?
Again, I know which one of those two options
I would go with.)
"Drew? Buddy,
what is your point?"
My point is this:
The author can call this thing a comet
16 times, when writing a piece about
our best view of it yet,
but doesnt bother to mention
the date the image was taken?
Nor, the results of
"The telescope’s highly sensitive
Multi-Object Spectrograph"
that took the image?
(and maybe they aren't available yet, IDK)
Nor, the previous spectrographic results
from other instruments?
AND NOBODY SEES
THE BUILT IN BIAS HERE?
IT IS BUILT IN
TO SERVE A PURPOSE.
Where I live
we got a saying:
"If it walks like a duck
and quacks like a duck,
it's probably a duck."
This thing simply doesn't walk
nor quack like a duck
but the whole world
has already been sold
on it being one.
WHY?
Think about it for a second.
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