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<\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div>\nDeep imaging of the glow around 3I\/ATLAS on September 7, 2025 displays a green color. (Credit:\u00a0M. J\u00e4ger and Gerlad Rhemann<\/a>)<\/h5>\nUntil recently, all spectroscopic studies of\u00a03I\/ATLAS<\/a>\u00a0indicated a reddish color. The latest image of 3I\/ATLAS from September 7, 2025 (reported by\u00a0Michael J\u00e4ger<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Gerald Rhemann<\/a>\u00a0here<\/a>), suggests that the glow around it turned green.<\/p>\nThe transition from red to green-blue colors might be associated with the steep rise in the production of cyanide (CN) as reported by the Very Large Telescope on August 25, 2025 (here<\/a>). The production of both cyanide and nickel without iron was found to increase dramatically\u00a0with decreasing heliocentric distance to the power of about 9<\/mark>\u00a0(+\/-1).<\/p>\nThis morning, the ATLAS telescope team released data dating back to March 28, 2025 (accessible\u00a0here<\/a>), showing that the cross section of scattered light around 3I\/ATLAS grew inversely with heliocentric distance to the power of 3.9 when the object was farther than 3.3 times the Earth-Sun separation (AU). Once 3I\/ATLAS got closer, the growth was moderated to a power-law index of 1.2. The ATLAS team interprets this anomalous evolution as a shift from scattering of sunlight by dust lifted from a reddened surface to the production of small, optically bright icy grains, which changed the opacity of the plume of materials shed off by 3I\/ATLAS.<\/p>\nThe Hubble Space Telescope image of 3I\/ATLAS from July 21, 2025 (reported\u00a0here<\/a>) when 3I\/ATLAS was at a heliocentric distance of 3.8 AU, shows an extension of scattered light towards the Sun and not away from it \u2014 as typically for comets. The Webb Space Telescope data from August 6, 2025 (reported\u00a0here<\/a>) and the SPHEREx space observatory from August 8\u201312, 2025 (reported\u00a0here<\/a>) showed that the plume of gas around 3I\/ATLAS is dominated by carbon dioxide \u2014 CO2 (87% by mass) with traces of carbon monoxide \u2014 CO (9%), and water \u2014 H2O (most of the remaining 4%). Combined with the path of 3I\/ATLAS being aligned with the ecliptic plane of the planets around the Sun, having a chance probability of a fifth of a percent, these facts make 3I\/ATLAS interestingly anomalous relative to familiar icy rocks. 3I\/ATLAS is different from the first interstellar object\u00a01I\/`Oumuamua<\/a>\u00a0which displayed no signs of evaporation but exhibited non-gravitational acceleration and also from the second interstellar object\u00a02I\/Borisov<\/a> which behaved like a familiar comet.<\/p>\nRegarding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) closer to Earth, congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna will chair today at 10 AM EST a hearing of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets in the U.S. Congress, titled: \u201cRestoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection\u201d (livestream video and written testimonies available\u00a0here<\/a>). The first recommendation to congress in the testimony of the U.S. Air Force Veteran Jeffrey Nuccetelli is: \u201cFund independent research and treat UAP study with the same seriousness as any other scientific field.\u201d This is exactly the narrative of the\u00a0Galileo Project<\/a>\u00a0under my leadership.<\/p>\n
The transition from red to green-blue colors might be associated with the steep rise in the production of cyanide (CN) as reported by the Very Large Telescope on August 25, 2025 (here<\/a>). The production of both cyanide and nickel without iron was found to increase dramatically\u00a0with decreasing heliocentric distance to the power of about 9<\/mark>\u00a0(+\/-1).<\/p>\n This morning, the ATLAS telescope team released data dating back to March 28, 2025 (accessible\u00a0here<\/a>), showing that the cross section of scattered light around 3I\/ATLAS grew inversely with heliocentric distance to the power of 3.9 when the object was farther than 3.3 times the Earth-Sun separation (AU). Once 3I\/ATLAS got closer, the growth was moderated to a power-law index of 1.2. The ATLAS team interprets this anomalous evolution as a shift from scattering of sunlight by dust lifted from a reddened surface to the production of small, optically bright icy grains, which changed the opacity of the plume of materials shed off by 3I\/ATLAS.<\/p>\n The Hubble Space Telescope image of 3I\/ATLAS from July 21, 2025 (reported\u00a0here<\/a>) when 3I\/ATLAS was at a heliocentric distance of 3.8 AU, shows an extension of scattered light towards the Sun and not away from it \u2014 as typically for comets. The Webb Space Telescope data from August 6, 2025 (reported\u00a0here<\/a>) and the SPHEREx space observatory from August 8\u201312, 2025 (reported\u00a0here<\/a>) showed that the plume of gas around 3I\/ATLAS is dominated by carbon dioxide \u2014 CO2 (87% by mass) with traces of carbon monoxide \u2014 CO (9%), and water \u2014 H2O (most of the remaining 4%). Combined with the path of 3I\/ATLAS being aligned with the ecliptic plane of the planets around the Sun, having a chance probability of a fifth of a percent, these facts make 3I\/ATLAS interestingly anomalous relative to familiar icy rocks. 3I\/ATLAS is different from the first interstellar object\u00a01I\/`Oumuamua<\/a>\u00a0which displayed no signs of evaporation but exhibited non-gravitational acceleration and also from the second interstellar object\u00a02I\/Borisov<\/a> which behaved like a familiar comet.<\/p>\n Regarding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) closer to Earth, congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna will chair today at 10 AM EST a hearing of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets in the U.S. Congress, titled: \u201cRestoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection\u201d (livestream video and written testimonies available\u00a0here<\/a>). The first recommendation to congress in the testimony of the U.S. Air Force Veteran Jeffrey Nuccetelli is: \u201cFund independent research and treat UAP study with the same seriousness as any other scientific field.\u201d This is exactly the narrative of the\u00a0Galileo Project<\/a>\u00a0under my leadership.<\/p>\n