{"id":135830,"date":"2025-11-16T05:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T05:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/135830\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T05:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T05:16:08","slug":"nasa-to-release-best-quality-images-of-manhattan-sized-interstellar-object-3i-atlas-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/135830\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA to release best quality images of Manhattan-sized interstellar object 3I\/ATLAS next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is set to release the much-anticipated images of the Manhattan-sized interstellar object 3I\/ATLAS within days, an agency source told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>The snaps of the mysterious object were taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter\u2019s HiRISE camera as it passed by the Red Planet from Oct.1 to Oct. 7 were not released because of the government shutdown, which ended late Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The source said the release of the snaps \u2014 expected to be the highest resolution of any image of 3I\/ATLAS yet \u2014 come come as early as next week.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.6516129;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37672174\" width=\"974\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3i-atlas-break-apart-suggest-115325381_876cf7.jpg\" alt=\"Image of the interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS.\" class=\"wp-image-37672174\"  \/>New images of 3I\/ATLAS released earlier this week in the Astronomer\u2019s Telegram showed. David Jewitt \/ Jane Luu \/ The Astronomer&#8217;s Telegram<\/p>\n<p>Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, who has conjectured that the object could potentially be an alien spaceship, panned the long-delayed release as a symptom of government inefficiency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScience should have been prioritized over bureaucracy,\u201d Loeb told The Post. \u201cThe truth about the nature of 3I\/ATLAS will be revealed by the sharing of data, not by the storyline of gatekeepers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The HiRISE camera images will be the clearest yet, surpassing the snaps taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on July 21, which to date have provided the most stark pictures of 3I\/ATLAS.<\/p>\n<p>Loeb stated that the HiRISE images will present one of the best opportunities to learn about the nucleus of the massive object, which will reveal its true nature.<\/p>\n<p>Loeb has previously sounded the alarm over the mysterious <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/13\/science\/avi-loeb-claims-comet-3i-atlas-structural-integrity-supports-alien-theory\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">anti-tail of 3I\/ATLAS<\/a>, which is a unique extension in the direction of the Sun, and not seen in normal, everyday comets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe HiRISE image would give us a side-view as well as a spatial resolution that is three times better than that of the Hubble Space Telescope,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.65964344;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37672173\" width=\"979\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3i-atlas-break-apart-suggest-115325378_c3ece5.jpg\" alt=\"Image of the interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS, showing its nucleus as a bright yellow sphere surrounded by a pink and then green halo, against a dark green background.\" class=\"wp-image-37672173\"  \/>The new images set to be released by NASA in a \u201cmatter of days\u201d will be the best of the object taken during its pass through our inner solar system. David Jewitt \/ Jane Luu \/ The Astronomer&#8217;s Telegram<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though the image is unlikely to resolve the solid nucleus itself, it can set a tight constraint on its diameter based on the brightest pixel,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cA picture is worth a thousand words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sky watchers celebrated earlier this week when, after speculation that the object had broken apart, 3I\/ATLAS <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/13\/science\/avi-loeb-claims-comet-3i-atlas-structural-integrity-supports-alien-theory\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">emerged fully intact<\/a> after its close encounter with the Sun.<\/p>\n<p>The object is now hurtling towards Jupiter where it will be surveilled by NASA\u2019s Juno space probe and the European Space Agency\u2019s JUICE spacecraft until it exits our solar system on in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA is set to release the much-anticipated images of the Manhattan-sized interstellar object 3I\/ATLAS within days, an agency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[7785,17602,7809,85,46,141,145,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-135830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-3i-atlas","9":"tag-aliens","10":"tag-comets","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-space","15":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}