Avi Loeb Responds To NASA’s New 3I/ATLAS Imagery – Lands With a Thud As Forensic Review Shows Only a Faint, Uneven Glow

A mild asymmetry does appear around the nucleus. There is a slightly thicker haze drifting to the left side of the object. This could be a very faint dust release, or it might simply be SOHO’s camera noise along the coronal gradient. The image is too degraded to determine which is true.

The lack of observable features does not mean those features are absent. It simply means this camera lacks the precision to reveal them. The instrument was designed primarily for detecting large, bright, sun-skirting objects through a saturated corona, not for resolving fine-scaled cometary morphology.

Searches for signs of acceleration, brightening, or fragmentation also yielded nothing definitive. There are no directional streaks, no decoupled fragments, and no pulses of reflected light that would suggest sudden motion or activity.

If 3I/ATLAS is accelerating or maneuvering in a way that hints at non-gravitational forces, the SOHO image cannot confirm it. The background noise overwhelms the minute details that higher-powered ground-based telescopes have already confirmed.