Comet 3i Atlas Core Appears Strange in Photos 🪐

When I processed the core in planetary software, the nucleus showed up as a pure bright point — almost featureless — which is extremely unusual for an interstellar comet.

But when I took the video of the coma, lowered the brightness in Adobe Premiere Pro, and enhanced the mid-tones, suddenly layers of color, structure, and jet-like patterns began to appear around the core.
It almost looks like something is happening inside the inner coma that the raw image doesn’t reveal.

In this video, I show:
🌟 The “weird” bright core after planetary-style processing
🌟 The color structures that appear only when brightness is reduced
🌟 The unusual gradients and shapes inside the inner coma
🌟 A clean side-by-side comparison
🌟 The exact method I used so you can verify it yourself

Captured from my backyard in Leander, Texas, using my standard deep-sky imaging workflow.
Every night, this interstellar visitor keeps surprising us.

Thank you for all the explosive growth on the channel — I appreciate every single one of you. 🙏
More data coming tonight.