Paul Craggs, a Canadian astrophotographer, took a few pictures of 3I/ATLAS on November 22, which seemed like one of the clearest images of the exocomet. Netizens went gaga over the image of the interstellar object captured via a budget Dwarf 3 portable smart telescope. Craggs’ portrait of 3I/ATLAS had the most prominent features of any natural comet amiss—tail and anti-tail. The glam snapshot of the drifting icy dusty rock seemed more glamorous than NASA’s HiRISE fuzzy visual of 3I/ATLAS that riled up the internet, who were expecting better.

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While NASA did explain the reason behind the resolution of the image, netizens keep flocking to stargazers dropping illuminated pictures of the exocomet, and Craggs’ picture added fuel to the fire. Meanwhile, Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, who has so far enlisted 13 anomalies of 3I/ATLAS that speculate a technological origin, unpacked Paul Craggs’ image in his latest blog. He noted

The unusually elongated appearance of 3I/ATLAS, as reported by Paul Craggs on November 22, 2025, might have resulted from motion smearing of the image.

Reacting to another picture of 3I/ATLAS by Mitsunori Tsumura, Prof. Loeb commented,

The best image was taken by Mitsunori Tsumura on November 22 at 19:25 UTC with a 0.5-meter telescope. Given the current distance of 3I/ATLAS from Earth of 300 million kilometers, its tail appears to extend out to 5 million kilometers, whereas the sunward anti-tail extends out to about a million kilometers. It takes a month to cross a million kilometers at a speed of 400 meters per second.

Loeb further writes,

We are all awaiting better images from the largest telescopes on Earth, as well as from the Hubble and Webb Space Telescopes, near 3I/ATLAS’s closest approach to Earth on December 19, 2025 at a minimum distance of 269 million kilometers.

The best is yet to come. The data collected in December 2025 will set the verdict on the nature of 3I/ATLAS.

Captured 3I Atlas last night with my Dwarf 3.#3IATLAS pic.twitter.com/NPlbLfIHwI
— Paul Craggs (@craggs_paul) November 22, 2025

📸 NEW 3i/ATLAS IMAGE 📸

Mitsunoi Tsumura has done it again and captured a jaw-droppingly beautiful image of 3I/ATLAS. This was captured on 11/22, but was just released hours ago.

This one will be sure to stir up some conversation as its anti-tail and alignment with NGC4454… pic.twitter.com/sTqvYLkWXf
— Drew Doss (@drew4worldruler) November 25, 2025

Images of 3I/ATLAS on November 22–24, 2025 https://t.co/BBWf1bBmYv
— Galileo Project (@GalileoProject1) November 25, 2025

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Cover: Paul Craggs/Mitsunori Tsumura/AviLoeb