3I/ATLAS Is Bleeding Matter In A Way No Comet Should

My own forensic review of the Laplacian-filtered Tenerife images reinforces this point. The anti-tail is not diffuse. It is collimated. Its axis does not wander randomly. It does not fan out under solar pressure the way a loose dust plume should. The brightness peak remains sharply defined, and the jet orientation shifts smoothly rather than erratically as viewing geometry changes. In legal terms, this is pattern evidence. It points to an internal mechanism that is repeatable and constrained.

Equally telling is what we do not see. There is no evidence of rotational shedding, no chaotic torque-driven breakup, and no episodic venting typical of volatile-rich nuclei. The object is losing mass, but it is doing so conservatively — as if preserving structural integrity were a priority rather than an accident.

This raises an unavoidable transparency issue. While ground-based observatories have released detailed data products, higher-resolution observations from space-based platforms remain conspicuously sparse. NASA and its partners possess instruments capable of resolving finer dust dynamics, compositional gradients, and near-nucleus behavior — precisely the data needed to test whether this mass-loss regime is truly unprecedented. The absence of that information from the public record invites scrutiny, not speculation.