Interstellar visitor

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Data from NASA's SPHEREx space telescope suggest Atlas is an Interstellar seed spreading building blocks of life to the Planets and Moons in our solar system.

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS shed the building blocks of life as it flew past Earth last year, according to new data from NASA's SPHEREx space telescope.
From its position in orbit, SPHEREx watched the rare interstellar visitor swing around the sun and make its closest approach to Earth in December, before the comet began its long journey back out of our solar system.
The organic molecules seen emanating from the comet include methanol, cyanide and methane. These molecules are fundamental for biological processes on Earth, but can also be the product of non-biological processes, according to a statement released by NASA. In other words, organic doesn't mean aliens.

 

"Comet 3I/ATLAS was full-on erupting into space in December 2025, after its close flyby of the Sun, causing it to significantly brighten," study lead author Carey Lisse, an astronomer at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland, said in the NASA statement. "Even water ice was quickly sublimating into gas in interplanetary space. And since comets consist of about one-third bulk water ice, it was releasing an abundance of new, carbon-rich material that had remained locked in ice deep below the surface."

"We are now seeing the usual range of early solar system materials, including organic molecules, soot, and rock dust, that are typically emitted by a comet," Lisse added.

Though these organic molecules may be typical for a comet, they could still be remarkable in their own way. One popular theory holds that comets may spread the seeds of life to bodies across the cosmos, potentially including Earth.

"Our unique space telescope is gathering unprecedented data from across the universe," deputy study lead author Yoonsoo Bach, a researcher at the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, said in the statement. "But in this case, our galaxy delivered a piece of a faraway star system to us only a few months after launch, and SPHEREx was ready to observe it. Science is sometimes like that: You're in the right place at the right time."

3I/ATLAS is currently soaring toward a close approach with Jupiter, where NASA's Juno spacecraft will get one last chance to study it up close before the comet leaves our solar system forever.

https://www.livescience.com/space/comets/nasa-telescope-spots-the-building-blocks-for-life-spewing-out-of-comet-3i-atlas

I don't think anyone was questioning that Atlas is a natural object given its size but the Dark Forrest hypothesis suggests we shouldn't assume a natural object hasn't been used by stealth to observe others , I think that's something Elon should consider if he builds his launch catapult on the Moon , if we're flinging stuff out there probably best to hide that stuff.

Lest we forget....