Catching up with some new stunning images courtesy of
David Lewitt and Jane Luu / Nordic Optical Telescope on 11 November 2025.
Avi Loeb referenced these images, so here are the two relevant links:
https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17490
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/3i-atlas-is-still-a-single-body-with-a-sunward-anti-tail-after-perihelion-667fe41c0071
Here is the pdf just for the images:
https://faculty.epss.ucla.edu/~jewitt/NOTpictures.pdf
New images of 3I/ATLAS from the Nordic Optical Telescope on November 11,
2025. The jet is pointing towards the Sun. North is to the top, East to
the left, and the imaged region is approximately 0.5 million km wide.
The projected anti-solar direction (-S) and negative heliocentric
velocity vector (-V) are marked. The diffuse object to the upper left of
3I/ATLAS is a galaxy. Other discrete objects are stars. The images are:
linear stretch (top panel), contoured (second from top), color
contoured (third from top), and spatially filtered within a 0.13 million
km radius region by subtracting the median signal in concentric annuli
centered on the brightest pixel (bottom panel). (Credit: David Jewitt
and Jane Luu, posted here) Namarie! 💗
