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The American flags planted during the Apollo missions are far too small to be resolved by any Earthbound telescope; at lunar distance . High-resolution imagery from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter...
3I/ATLAS is a real, observed interstellar comet first spotted by the ATLAS survey on 1 July 2025; space telescopes including Hubble and JWST have imaged and measured it (e.g., Hubble imaged it at abou...
Avi Loeb has argued that 3I/ATLAS shows multiple anomalies — non-gravitational acceleration, large-scale jets/coma extending hundreds of thousands to millions of kilometers, unusual composition and ch...
The balance of observational evidence and expert analysis identifies 3I/ATLAS as an interstellar comet, not an alien ship: multiple telescopes and spacecraft recorded cometary behavior and chemistry c...
3I/ATLAS is an interstellar comet discovered by ATLAS in July 2025 that reached perihelion around Oct. 29–30, 2025 at roughly 1.4 AU from the Sun and made a closest approach to Earth of about 1.8 AU o...
Available reporting shows 3I/ATLAS is an interstellar comet that passed perihelion on 29–30 October 2025 and has been observed moving away from the Sun at high speed; mainstream agencies describe it a...
Dr. Michio Kaku has publicly characterized 3I/ATLAS as a “highly observable mystery” worthy of sober attention, emphasizing its unusual hyperbolic trajectory and high relative speed while urging clari...
Independent, non‑NASA observations — radio recordings by observatories and amateurs, radar tracking by multiple nations, laser retroreflector returns, and optical imaging from spacecraft and telescope...
Comet-related criminal charges being “dropped” is not discussed in the supplied sources; available reporting focuses on observational news about comets in 2025 such as interstellar 3I/ATLAS and bright...
Western telescopes and spacecraft have produced multi-instrument observations of 3I/ATLAS — imaging, UV and IR spectroscopy, and astrometry that improved its trajectory by roughly 10× — and have measu...
3I/ATLAS is an interstellar comet that passed perihelion on about 29–30 October 2025 and made relatively close passes to Mars and Venus (roughly 29 million km from Mars on 3 October and ~97 million km...
C/2025 R2 (SWAN) is a Solar System long‑period comet discovered in SWAN/SOHO imagery on 11 September 2025 and reached a reported peak brightness near magnitude ~5.9 during an outburst; it made closest...
Reported size estimates for interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS during 2023–2025 vary widely: Hubble-based papers and major press summaries place the nucleus diameter between roughly 320 meters and 5.6 kilome...
3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1) is an interstellar comet first reported on 1 July 2025 by the ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile; it is the third confirmed interstellar object and posed no threat to Ea...
Astronomers know black holes exist because multiple, independent observational lines converge on the same conclusion: , even though the holes themselves emit no light. Direct radio imaging of black-ho...
Two clear camps appear in expert commentary on 3I/ATLAS: a mainstream majority treating it as an unusual but natural interstellar , and a smaller set of researchers proposing speculative, testable hyp...
The claim that a “resolution of the 3I/ATLAS telescope” exists is incorrect: , and none of the supplied analyses or documents specify a telescope named “3I/ATLAS” or list a resolution for such an inst...
China’s digitized photographic plates and new imaging capabilities, including data tied to 3I/ATLAS observations, present clear potential to yield novel astronomical discoveries by enabling long-basel...