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By Samuel Lopez
USA Herald

Avi Loeb did not mince words after reviewing NASA’s newly released SOHO/LASCO C3 images of 3I/ATLAS. He said there was “nothing major in terms of their insights as to the nature of the object,” adding that the imagery appeared “fuzzy” and offered “no new insight.”

Loeb acknowledged that NASA detected hydrogen using MAVEN’s spectrograph, which confirms the presence and breakup of water molecules. However, he emphasized that the real story lies in the data associated with the comet’s jets, noting that multiple jets are firing in different directions and that the scientific community still lacks a high-resolution telescope image capable of settling the deeper questions.

To understand NASA’s newly released SOHO image, a rigorous forensic review was conducted on the frame captured between October 15 and 26, 2025. The image is faint, heavily textured by SOHO’s dense solar-coronal background, and shows 3I/ATLAS only as a subtle brightening in the center.

Even with careful digital enhancement and layered contrast analysis, the central object behaves more like a soft sphere than a sharply defined cometary core. Nothing in the image indicates rapid spin, rotational smearing, or any clear structural divisions inside the nucleus. The central brightness holds its shape, but its outline is swallowed by low-resolution blur, creating a uniform glow rather than any distinct architecture.