A Tail With a “Jet Spine”—More Like a Thrust Vector Than a Dust Plume

Look closely at the tail.

It is not diffuse.
It is not fanned like a dust plume.
It is not chaotic like an ion tail responding to solar wind.

Instead, it contains a central beamlike structure—what I describe as a “jet spine.” This is a narrow, coherent stream of material or energy that travels a considerable distance without dispersing.

In astrophysics, this behavior is associated with:

• collimated jet propulsion,
• magnetic-field–confined plasma flows, or
• carefully directed venting.

None of these behaviors appear in ordinary solar system comets.

This is why Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has repeatedly pointed to the possibility of technological thrusters to explain the object’s anti-tail and its non-gravitational acceleration.

The Tail Doesn’t Align With Solar Wind Physics

The solar wind should “push” a comet’s tail away from the Sun consistently. But 3I/ATLAS continues to resist this rule.

Murata’s image shows: