The mysterious Manhattan-sized interstellar object 3I/ATLAS appears to have no cometary tail in new images, which would eliminate the conventional explanation for the surprising “non-gravitational acceleration” it exhibited last week, startling new images show.

Photographs taken by the R. Naves Observatory in Spain on Nov. 5, showed no sign of a tail of debris which was expected to be shooting off behind the object as it encountered the force of the sun.

An estimated 13% of the nucleus should be visibly trailing the 33 billion-ton object as it reemerged into view of planet Earth’s telescopes, Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb said.

But with no tail in sight, Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb is suggesting that this is yet another indicator that the object could be an artificial alien cr

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