INVESTIGATINGScienceSpectroscopic analysis of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS detected deuterium, a nuclear fuel. Additionally, thermal data shows the object's dark side is hotter than the side facing the Sun — a phenomenon NASA simulations cannot explain.
“Spectroscopic analysis of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS detected deuterium, a nuclear fuel. Additionally, thermal data shows the object's dark side is hotter than the side facing the Sun — a phenomenon NASA simulations cannot explain.”
The third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system is behaving in ways that defy conventional physics — and the anomalies are piling up.
Futurism reported that spectroscopic scans of 3I/ATLAS detected deuterium — a form of hydrogen used as nuclear fuel. While deuterium exists naturally, its presence in an interstellar object at detectable concentrations is unexpected.
Perhaps more striking: the dark side of 3I/ATLAS (facing away from the Sun) is hotter than the sun-facing side. This is thermodynamically bizarre. NASA's own simulations cannot reproduce this observation.
This is the third interstellar object detected — after Oumuamua (which also exhibited anomalous acceleration) and 2I/Borisov. The pattern of interstellar objects behaving unexpectedly is becoming harder to dismiss.
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