Key Findings The newest images reveal a structure that should not exist. Its shape ignores the rules comets have followed for centuries. And each new frame pushes us closer to an unsettling possibility. Avi Loeb’s latest analysis suggests the strange glow pointing toward the Sun may not be a tail at all. By Samuel Lopez New analysis of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS suggests its strange sunward anti-tail may be a swarm of nearby objects, raising urgent questions about its true nature.