08/26/25
"To put 3I/ATLAS in perspective, a human produces about 1 kilogram of CO2 per day. The mass loss rate from 3I/ATLAS of 129 kilogram per second amounts to the CO2 output of about 10 million people. A space platform which measures 46 kilometers in diameter could potentially host the needed population of biological passengers if they are packed as densely as humans are on Manhattan Island." Avi Loeb at https://avi-loeb.medium.com/3i-atlas-is-large-and-emits-carbon-dioxide-co2-22fe3a31b3e5
The Angry Astronaut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv7XBm5XbtY
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https://youtu.be/V4LHt7ZkibE?si=Bvwi6vvBFaCch5DL Note: Fascinating and energetic discussions from a really engaging youtuber. Abraham (Avi) Loeb on Fox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziXu8xvl9ek Editor note: Fascinating discussion. Excellent questions from Fox Newscaster.
Dr. Loeb gives an excellent speech on what defines an energetic and inquisitive science.
Maybe the best short speech on the value of unfettered thought and science I have heard in awhile! Thirty 3I/Atlas links on ARXIV: https://arxiv.org/search/?query=3I%2FATLAS&searchtype=all&source=header Some recent ARXIV highlighted Papers: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.05252 Interstellar comet 3I/Atlas: discovery and physical description https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02777 Spectral Characteristics of Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS from SOAR Observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08829 Simultaneous visible spectrophotometry of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS with Seimei/TriCCS Abraham (Avi) Loeb recent publications on 3I/Atlas from ARXIV: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05881 https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12213 https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21402 Abraham (Avi) Loeb from Harvard: https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/HCL25.pdf Abraham (Avi) Loeb on Medium: https://avi-loeb.medium.com/3i-atlas-is-large-and-emits-carbon-dioxide-co2-22fe3a31b3e5 https://avi-loeb.medium.com/the-media-tsunami-of-3i-atlas-b3695f0ae4e2 https://avi-loeb.medium.com/the-visionary-letter-from-congresswoman-anna-paulina-luna-to-nasa-regarding-3i-atlas-ddb56dce69f0
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/the-first-webb-telescope-observations-of-3i-atlas-8cd89e872870
Congressional Representative Luna tweets to NASA on 3I/Atlas asking to investigate the use of
Juno to photograph 3I/Atlas: https://x.com/RepLuna/status/1951379349128815062.
Go, Go, Go Congressperson Luna!! Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3I/ATLAS NASA: https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/3i-atlas/ SphereX (Infrared) Telescope: https://spherex.caltech.edu/news/3i-atlas-co2-coma https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:3I-ATLAS_SPHEREx_spectrum_Lisse_et_al._2025_Fig_1.png Film from ESO (European Southern Observatory) VLT: https://www.eso.org/public/videos/potw2527a/ Gemini North Images (NOIRLab): https://noirlab.edu/public/images/?search=3I%2FAtlas Hubble Photograph of 3I/Atlas https://esahubble.org/images/heic2509a/ Virtual Telescope Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOtp16YKweM From JWST (https://webbtelescope.org/home and soon https://science.nasa.gov/mission/webb ) Note: (7:27 AM 8/25/2025) JWST turned its massive infrared telescope on 3I/Atlas on August 6th. Results not yet published. https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/3iatlas/2025/08/25/nasas-webb-space-telescope-observes-interstellar-comet
"JWST detection of a carbon dioxide dominated gas coma surrounding interstellar object 3I/ATLAS1"
https://zenodo.org/records/16941949 and
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18209 https://avi-loeb.medium.com/the-first-webb-telescope-observations-of-3i-atlas-8cd89e872870
