This comet had its sunscreen on.

Recent photos reveal that 3I/ATLAS did not disintegrate during its recent fly-by of the sun, leading Harvard scientist Loeb to double down on suggesting that it could be artificial — although other space experts have their doubts.

The photos, snapped on November 11 by the Nordic Optical Telescope in Spain’s Canary Islands, show that the entity “continues as an active, single body, with no evidence for breakup following the recent perihelion passage (a point in a celestial body’s orbit when it’s closest to the sun).”

Loeb, who previously floated the theory that ATLAS could be fragmenting , argued that this made the natural comet theory seem unlikely.

He claimed that the cosmic body’s gargantuan jets suggested a mass loss rate too high for something o

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