Unprecedented Brightening Stuns Scientists
The interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS continues to astonish researchers as it brightens at an unexpectedly rapid pace during its closest approach to the Sun. While comets commonly glow brighter as they shed dust and gas when heated by solar radiation, the rapid surge in brightness of this alien object has left astronomers scratching their heads and rethinking how such bodies behave in extreme solar conditions.
Traditional models predict a gradual increase in activity as a comet nears perihelion, driven by the sublimation of ices within its nucleus. But 3I/ATLAS seems to have defied expectations, showing a sudden uptick in brightness that some observers described as
