Tail of Comet 3I/ATLAS points at sun, has strange wobbling jets

Rare interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is challenging scientists with new observations showing a Sun-facing tail, known as an anti-tail, containing shifting jet-like structures. Researchers found the jets wobble rhythmically rather than staying fixed. In some images, the anti-tail stretched nearly 1 million km, making it an unexpectedly prominent feature for such a distant and fleeting object.

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