Mystery deepens as 3I/ATLAS' tail could be comprised of a 'swarm' of unknown objects: Harvard scientist

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 Scientist Avi Loeb claims he’s discovered another non-cometary anomaly: a sun-facing “anti-tail” comprised of a swarm of objects.

In a new Medium blog post , the astrophysicist wrote that November images of ATLAS shot after perihelion showed a teardrop shape in its coma — the halo of gas and dust that forms around the solid nucleus when the comet approaches the solar star — that was pointed toward the sun.

“If the anti-tail is indeed associated with a swarm of non-evaporating objects around 3I/ATLAS, the interesting question is what is the nature of these objects?” Loeb wrote. “Are th