Comet 3I/ATLAS Turned Green But We Don't Know Why + Other Updates

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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about recent updates about the comet 3I/ATLAS that are based on legit scientific findings and not speculations or guesswork
Links:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18382
https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1994ApJ...436..885K/0000889.000.html
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.07678
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18382
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05181
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05562
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.07678
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08792
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18209
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.02813
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01647
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1098124
https://www.swri.org/newsroom/press-releases/swri-proposed-mission-could-encounter-explore-future-interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-close
Previous updates:
https://youtu.be/arOgYkzMlp0
https://youtu.be/IRAQFWnY6uI
https://youtu.be/21HSmydkxaE

0:00 3I/ATLAS Updates!
1:25 Coma and tail discoveries
3:30 Composition and surface is strange
5:30 No dicarbon found, this matters
6:10 It's green! But why though?
7:00 Media hype is wrong again
8:25 Polarization strangeness
9:20 Plutoid chunks
10:00 Where did this come from and how old is it?
11:05 Shift in the color profile
11:50 Collision with a coronal mass ejection
12:30 What's next?

#3iatlas #comet #science

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Credit:
NASA, ESA, and J. Olmsted and F. Summers (STScI)
NOIRLab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gMxDO0j3J4
Davidjessop CC BY-SA 4.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarization_(waves)#/media/File:Wave_Polarisation.gif
Michael Jäger/Gerald Rhemann
 David Jewitt/NASA/ESA/Space Telescope Science Institute
Miguel R. Alarcon, Miquel Serra-Ricart, Javier Licandro, Sergio Guerra Arencibia, Ignacio Ruiz Cejudo, and Ignacio Trujillo
Alessandro Bianconi CC BY SA 2.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C2022_E3_%28ZTF%29-_Alessandro_Bianconi.png

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