Through his research at Caltech, a local high school student revealed 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space, broadened the potential of a NASA mission, and published a single-author paper.
Now, Harvard scientist Avi Loeb has added a new and surprising idea: the tail of 3I/ATLAS may not be a normal tail at all. Instead, he thinks it could be made up of a swarm of unknown objects ...
This might be more than a tail of fire and ice? Comet 3I/ATLAS has displayed a variety of atypical traits, from its bizarre trajectory through our solar system to a complex jet structure. Now, Harvard ...