KEY FINDINGS
The image exposes something new.
The geometry refuses to behave.
And the explanation grows narrower, not broader.
[USA HERALD] – The image now under examination was captured on December 27, 2025, between 04h06m and 04h22m UT, by Belgian astronomer Alfons Diepvens using a 20cm f/9 apochromatic refractor, and it adds another critical data point to a pattern that has been building for months. Near the center of the false-color frame sits interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, surrounded by a compact glowing coma. What immediately draws the trained eye, however, is not the coma itself—but a long, narrow, oddly placed sunward structure extending away from the nucleus at a scale and rigidity that does not naturally follow from standard comet physics.
This is not the broad fan of dust commonly seen in comets near perihelion. Nor is it a transient puff or stochastic outburst. The structure is elongated, sharply defined, and directionally coherent. It points toward the Sun—forming what is known as an anti-tail—yet it persists with a straightness and reach that demand closer scrutiny.
