Speaker 1: What if a visitor from another star system, I mean,
a genuine tourist from another sun showed up in our
cosmic backyard and suddenly started changing color and not just once, no,
not once, but three times in like rapid succession. Welcome
to thrilling threads, where today we're talking about an object
whose story is well, it's being written in chemistry right
before our eyes.
Speaker 2: And that story belongs to interstellar object three eye out lists,
or as we'll be calling it, three.
Speaker 1: Eye out lists exactly three eye at lasts.
Speaker 2: And this is the ultimate high stakes mystery right now.
I mean, the evolution we're seeing in this object is
it's just completely unprecedented.
Speaker 1: So where did it start. It came in looking like what.
Speaker 2: It started its journey toward our sun as this dark,
very organic, deep red body. Then it just rapidly transitioned
into this fiercely active green glow.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: And now for its final act, it's taken on this
really unusual kind of striking golden.
Speaker 1: Hue, so red to green to gold in.
Speaker 2: The span of a few months. And look, this isn't
just a pretty visual shift. This is a chemical phase change.
It's happening in real time right in front of our.
Speaker 1: Telescopes, and a lot of this amazing synthesis that we're
going to get into it comes from the cutting edge
observations compiled by geophysicist Stephan Burns. He put out a
video recently called three I atlass is now glowing gold
as Earth's closest approach countdown begins.
Speaker 2: It's a fantastic breakdown.
Speaker 1: It is. So our mission today is to go way
beyond just saying, hey, it changed color. We're going to
take those astronomical observations, all the data, the chemistry and
really dig into what this whole evolution tells us about it.
It's traumatic past.
Speaker 2: And it's very very uncertain.
Speaker 1: Future for you listening. This is your shortcut. We're going
to unpack the physiting of why this visitor is behaving
like nothing else we've ever seen.
Speaker 2: And the gravity of this this chemical story, you really
can't be overstated. When we look at those shifts red
to green to gold, we're literally watching layers of its
history being stripped away like cosmic tree rings almost kind of.
It's like a piece of cosmic chronostratigic. Yeah, each color
is signaling that a specific fuel tank, a volatile reservoir,
is now empty.
Speaker 1: And as it sheds these layers, it raises a pretty
terrifying question, doesn't it.
Speaker 2: It raises the critical question that is occupying astronomers everywhere
right now. Is three I atlas about to just break apart?
Speaker 1: And as we're going to discuss, there's a precedent for this,
That beautiful golden color might actually be a prelude to
a major.
Speaker 2: Structural failure definitive one.
Speaker 1: Okay, so let's start at the beginning. Let's chart this
whole bizarre color story. When did we first even spot
this thing.
Speaker 2: It was initially picked up on July first of this year,
and we got some really excellent early data, particularly from
imagery taken on July thirty. That's our baseline.
Speaker 1: And what were astronomers looking at? What kind of light?
Speaker 2: They were focused on three key bands, the G band,
which is the green end of the spectrum, the R band,
which is red, and of course infrared to track the heat.
Speaker 1: So diving into that initial data right after discovery, what
did it look like. Was it already glowing that commentary green?
Speaker 2: We all know that's the thing. It was the complete
opposite when you look at the G band imagery, which
is where you'd expect to see a lot of brightness
for an active comet. Three I Atlas wasn't clearly green
at all. It actually looked more yellow in that band, huh.
But in the R band, the red optical imagery, it
was glowing really brightly red, and that redness was its
dominant color, I mean all the way through the end
of September.
Speaker 1: So for months it was a red.
Speaker 2: Object, a red object. But the truly critical thing, the
fact that set it apart from moment one, was its
immediate activity. Right on the first day, on the very
first day, it was observed a massive plume was already forming,
and yet it was still pretty far from the Sun.
Speaker 1: That's that's just wild. I mean, that's so counterintuitive. If
this thing is spent what millions, billions of years in
the deep frieze of interstellar space.
Speaker 2: It should be frozen solid.
Speaker 1: It should be a rock solid ice ball. It should
take whek maybe months of the sun just baking it
for the heat to get in there and start any
kind of sublimation.
Speaker 2: You've just hit on exactly why it immediately got the
nickname Oddball. That rapid instantaneous activity. It suggests that only
a really really thin, superficial crust of material was surrounding
the nuclear.
Speaker 1: So I had no insulation basically pretty much.
Speaker 2: It didn't have that deep tough crust that a say,
a long period Solar system comet like Hailbob might have.
A normal comet needs a long time for the internal
pressure to build up, and you know, pop the cork.
Speaker 1: That's this thing.
Speaker 2: Three. I Atlas seemed to have this easily accessible skin
that just started evaporating the second it felt that massive
jump in solar.
Speaker 1: Energy, an energy jump from basically zero in deep space
to what our Sun puts.
Speaker 2: Out, an almost infinitely large jump. Yet.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we start with a dark red object defined
by this thin super volatile layer that just goes off instantly,
which leads us to the first major shift, the transition
to green. And that's tied to a very specific landmark
in space, right it is.
Speaker 2: It's tied to the single most important boundary in the
inner Solar System for this kind of chemistry, the two
point five astronomical unit mark, the two point five AU.
Speaker 1: Line, and an AU is the distance from the Earth
to the Sun, so two and a half times.
Speaker 2: That distance exactly, and it's not an arbitrary number. It
defines the rough distance where the Sun's energy the sheet
and light is finally strong enough to overcome the energy
needed to vaporize water ice.
Speaker 1: So this is the water line.
Speaker 2: This is the water line. In simple terms, this is
where H two zero water ice suddenly comes incredibly active
due to sublimation. It goes straight from solid to gas.
Speaker 1: Hold on, explain that a bit more. We know commets
are active much further out than two point five AU.
So what were they, you know, breathing before they cross
that line.
Speaker 2: Excellent point, And that's key to the color. Before the
September shift, when three I at lists was still out
between three and two point six AU, it's COMO was
being powered by different ices, more volatile stuff, much more
volatile stuff, low temperature ices. We're talking mainly carbon dioxide
CO two and crucially carbon monoxide CO and some cyanide CM.
Speaker 1: Stuff that boils at much colder temperatures than.
Speaker 2: Water, far colder. They require way less energy to turn
into gas. So that initial sublimation is what powered the
red phase.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we've got imagery from August twenty seventh, right,
and it shows that at two point five nine AU
so it's right on the hairy edge of crossing that boundary.
Speaker 2: It's right on the verge. And once it crossed that
two point five AU line, the physics of water just
took over the whole system.
Speaker 1: And what does that look like?
Speaker 2: Well, once the solar energy was strong enough to energize
all that water ice which had to be present in
that thin outer crust, the entire system just changed. Water
sublimation is extremely energetic. It releases a massive amount of material.
Speaker 1: It's a much more violent process.
Speaker 2: It is. This massive shift represented a huge amount of activity.
The object was effectively waking up again, but this time
with incredible force.
Speaker 1: And the green color itself is so fascinating. What's actually
causing that sacific visual signature in the coma.
Speaker 2: That vibrant green color we associate with comets is it's
often attributed to emission from dicarbon, which is C two
or cyanide cn. These are radicals and they glow really
strongly when they get excited by sunlight.
Speaker 1: Okay, so how do they get there?
Speaker 2: When that immense rush of water vapor blasts off the surface,
it carries with it all these other trapped, more complex molecules.
Speaker 1: The organic stuff from the red phase exactly.
Speaker 2: The high energy solar radiation then just shatters those larger
molecules into these smaller, simply radicals like C two, and
those are what glow green.
Speaker 1: So the green is literally the sign of a chemical breakdown.
Speaker 2: It is. It was the peak of its activity, a
chemically violent massive release of material.
Speaker 1: And now now we're seeing the end of that peak,
the transition to goal. This change is telling us that
eruption is finally winding down.
Speaker 2: It is the shift started subtly right around perihelion, its
closest point to the Sun. On November twenty sixth, we
got some amazing high resolution imagery from the Gemini Norse
telescope and.
Speaker 1: What did that show?
Speaker 2: It showed it still had a touch of green, a
little blue even, but the golden transition was visibly underway.
You could see it happening. Astronomers were watching the colors
literally fade and shift in the weeks that followed.
Speaker 1: So they caught it midchange. They confirmed the whole triple
color story right there. When did the gold become, you know,
the main color.
Speaker 2: The confirmation really solidified in December. An amateur astronomer, Alberto
Kuanavadnisa captured an image on December tenth that showed a
striking gold color, and then more images from the fourteenth
confirmed it. The intense green glow was gone.
Speaker 1: So this makes three i atlasks completely unique. A three
color shift object red to green to gold.
Speaker 2: It's a rapid, staged chemical evolution that tells this incredibly
clear chronological story of its own composition.
Speaker 1: Okay, so if red was the initial organic layer heating up,
and green was the catastrophic loss of water and volatiles,
what does the gold phase signify chemically? What is it?
Speaker 2: The gold phase is the signature of depletion.
Speaker 1: It's running out of gas.
Speaker 2: It's run out of its special gas. Yeah. Yeah, it
means the major easily volatile elements that powered the red
and green phases, that organic crust, the water ice, they've
been largely consumed. They've been volatilized and blown away.
Speaker 1: So what are we seeing now? What's left to glow?
Speaker 2: The object is shifting back to a dust dominated coma,
but it's not the rich organic red dust we saw
at the start. We're now seeing light reflected primarily off
the remaining refractory material, a tough stuff. The tough stuff,
the rocky bits, the silicates, maybe some sulfur compounds that
require much higher temperatures to vaporize. The intense green glow
from the C two has faded, and what's left behind
is the yellowish golden reflection of more standard, boring comet dust.
Speaker 1: And that's the signal.
Speaker 2: That's the signal that the unique temporary skin it picked
up in interstellar space is now, for all intents and
purposes gone.
Speaker 1: This is incredible. The clues embedded in that gas cloud,
especially during that first red phase, they are just crucial
for piecing together this object's ancient history.
Speaker 2: If we look deeper than just the color, the data
reveals things that fundamentally challenge what we thought we knew
about interstellar travelers.
Speaker 1: So let's pivot from the visible light down to the
molecular level. You mentioned Three eye Alis was remarkably red.
Why does that redness make it so different from the
other two interstellar visitors we've tracked, Umumoa and borisav oh
it's a.
Speaker 2: Huge point of distinction UMHMOA, the first one was extremely dark,
which suggests a really heavily processed, maybe even metallic composition.
It barely had a comb at.
Speaker 1: All, so weird tumbling cigar.
Speaker 2: Exactly, and then borisaw. The second one was actually a
lot like a typical comet from our own solar system,
pretty standard. The three eyeallis three eyelids being so intensely
red just stands at as highly organic and complex.
Speaker 1: And when you say red, you mean it's redder than
most things even in our own solar system. What kind
of complex chemistry actually does that? What absorbs blue light
so well?
Speaker 2: That intense red color is the unmistakable signature of complex organics. Specifically,
we're talking about refractory carbon compounds. Some people call them
thousands or other long carbon rix chains, okay, and this
indicates the dust is incredibly organic, rich chemically. It's more
similar to objects that formed in the coldest, most distant
parts of a solar system, like a trans Neptunian object.
Speaker 1: And these red compounds aren't just you know, cosmic soot.
Speaker 2: Not at all. They are highly complex precursor materials. They're
capable of creating the foundational building blocks of biochemistry.
Speaker 1: You're talking about amino acids.
Speaker 2: Amino acids, nucleotide based pairs, the raw ingredients for life.
Speaker 1: So that immediately puts three i at lists right in
the middle of that whole conversation about panspermia, or the
idea that interstellar objects could carry the seeds of life
from one star to another.
Speaker 2: It does. The source material refers to this as the
interstellar seed hypothesis. The ability of this rock to carry
the literal raw materials for biochemistry is why it's so
important that red dust is a snapshot of universal organic
chemistry preserved in the deep cold of space.
Speaker 1: But while those red organics point to a certain kind
of origin, the truly bizarre finding was something else, right,
something that points to an even stranger history.
Speaker 2: The selective nickel emission, the nickel spike.
Speaker 1: What did the spectroscopic data actually show and why did
it just defy all expectations about how elements are distributed
in the cosmos.
Speaker 2: What's so fascinating here is the sheer selectivity of it.
We saw nickel emission ramp up sharply very early on
in the comets activation. But and this is the key,
it happened without a corresponding simultaneous increase in iron emission.
Speaker 1: And normally they come together.
Speaker 2: Right right, They're like cosmic buddies. The spectroscopic data, which
is rock solid. It gave us very clear data confirming
the nickel spike and the lack of iron. In most
places in the universe, where you find nickel, you find iron.
They're made in similar stellar processes. They candense together in
rocky So to.
Speaker 1: See nickel gas streaming out without an iron plume, it.
Speaker 2: Means there is a highly specialized chemical process at work
inside that nucleus, a process that is preferentially grabbing the
nickel and leaving the iron behind.
Speaker 1: This sounds less like geology and more like industrial chemistry.
You've got some kind of mechanism that's acting like a
molecular filter, picking nickel over iron. What's the leading theory
for that?
Speaker 2: The leading explanation is brilliant. It centers entirely around a
class of molecules called metal carbonyls. Metal carbonyls specifically nickel
carbonyl and iron carbonyl. Yeah, these are the carrier molecules
that allow heavy metals like nickel and iron to basically
turn into a gas at very low temperatures.
Speaker 1: Okay, for those of us who don't deal with industrial
chemistry every day. What makes these compounds so important to
this puzzle a metal atom bonded to a carbon monoxideer.
Speaker 2: Exactly, and they're critical because they are incredibly volatile. Both
iron carbonyl and nickel carbonyl are known to sublimate to
go from solid to gas really easily at low temperatures,
far far below the temperature you'd need to vaporize the
bulk metal itself.
Speaker 1: So in the gently warming nucleus of the comet, these
are some of the first things to gas off.
Speaker 2: They should be. But if both can sublimate easily, why
the nickel spike and the complete absence of iron. That's
the core riddle.
Speaker 1: What's the chemical difference?
Speaker 2: It all comes down to chemical stability. It's a concept
used on Earth in things like the Mawd process for
refining nickel iron carbonyl. It's notoriously unstable. It's highly reactive,
especially if there's water.
Speaker 1: Around and inside the nucleus of a.
Speaker 2: Comet, we know there is abundant water ice, so the
hypothesis is that the iron carbonyl, which might have formed
in there, very quickly reacts with that water. It's a
process called hydrolysis, and that effectively destroys the carbonyl molecule.
Before it can ever reach the surface to sublimate, so.
Speaker 1: The iron is trapped. Its carrier molecule is too fragile,
too reactive to survive the trip through the wet, icy interior.
Speaker 2: It gets chemically scrubbed out by its own.
Speaker 1: Environment and the nickel carbonyl.
Speaker 2: Nickel carbonyl is significantly more stable. It's much less reactive
with water, so it survives that chemical gauntlet inside the
nucleus and successfully makes the journey to the surface. Once
it gets out into the coma, into the gaseous envelope,
it's exposed to intense solar radiation and that radiation finally
provides the energy needed to break the stable nickel carbonyl apart,
releasing the free nickel atoms.
Speaker 1: Which is what the spectroscope see is is that bizarre
sharp spike. That is a stunning piece of detective work.
The fact that we can figure out the internal chemical conditions,
the presence of water, the instability of one molecule versus another,
just by looking at a trace. Ellman's light profile is
it speaks volumes, It really does, But this selective process
it suggests incredibly specific, really unique conditions inside that nucleus.
It points so strongly to a very unusual pass it does.
Speaker 2: It tells us this object's history wasn't just simple accretion
in a cold cloud. It required conditions that allowed these
carbonyls to form in the first place, and then a
thermal history that preserved the stable nickel ones while providing
just enough heat and water to destroy the iron ones.
It's a chemical fingerprint that demands an explanation.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we have this object that's rich in organics
but also chemically processed to a degree that it favors
the release of these stable nickel carbonyls. Based on all
the current data, what is the most likely story for
three i at lists before it ever came here.
Speaker 2: The consensus is really pointing to a two part history. First,
it was likely once a short period comet orbiting its
own host star, which will probably never identify. And second, second,
it was ejected from that system and then spent cosmic
time scales maybe billions of years, just accumulating new material
in the extremely cold, high vacuum environment of interstellar space.
Speaker 1: Let's focus on that first phase, a short period orbit.
Why is that specific history so crucial for explaining the
the processed reactive nucleus we saw, because it.
Speaker 2: Implies the object was heavily thermally processed. We're not talking
about something that stayed way out in the cold and
its stars orc cloud. It must have undergone hundreds, maybe
thousands of close repeated orbits around its parent star.
Speaker 1: So it was getting constantly baked.
Speaker 2: Constantly bombarded by that star's energy. It would have been
subjected to severe thermal stress over and over again.
Speaker 1: And what would that kind of repeated baking have done
to its original composition.
Speaker 2: It would have essentially sterilized the core. It would have
driven off all the most volatile material. Imagine the heat
just boiling off layers, things like methane, ammonia, a lot
of the pristine CO two and CO. They would have
been gone long ago or buried so deep they couldn't escape.
Speaker 1: So what's left is a cooked core.
Speaker 2: You're left with a heavily processed basic nucleus, a core
of high temperature silicates and refractory carbons. This process explains
why the nucleus was probably structurally weak, and why it
only had that very thin layer of new volatile material
on it when it got.
Speaker 1: Here, So its own star basically baked it down to
a stripped down shell, and then it got kicked out.
How does that happen?
Speaker 2: The ejection event, it would have almost certainly been a
massive gravitational interaction, a classic three body.
Speaker 1: Problem, the comet, a giant planet and its star.
Speaker 2: Most likely, the comet would have gotten a gravitational slingshot
from a massive planet, gaining enough velocity to overcome the
star's gravity and achieve escape velocity. Then it began its long.
Speaker 1: Lonely journey, a journey that must have been incredibly long, millions,
maybe billions of years. We know deep space is an
insane vacuum, but what was it actually accumulating out there?
Speaker 2: You're right, the energy flux is minuscule. I mean we're
talking ten to the minus seven ten to the minus
eight washpa square meter. You can barely measure it. But
over cosmic timescales, that ejected processed nucleus acts like a tiny,
sticky gravitational seed.
Speaker 1: A cosmic fly swat.
Speaker 2: Cosmic flyswatter exactly. It traveled through regions of space filled
with materials produced when other older stars ex floated and
scattered their guts across the galaxy.
Speaker 1: So what was the composition of this interstellar pickup phase.
Speaker 2: Over that long period, the stripped down core accumulated a
brand new, temporary, single reservoir of exotic materials. This included
those small, complex organic molecules that gave it its initial
red color. They just adhere to the surface and water too,
and a significant amount of water ice, forming a layered shell.
The key is that this shell didn't mix deeply into
that sterilized core. It stayed as a thin, easily volatile
layer right on the surface, a frosting. A frosting exactly,
a frosting that was ready to react violently as soon
as it got heated up.
Speaker 1: And now we get to the great cosmic shock, the
reactivation near our Sun. We need a comparison that really
drives home the sheer scale of the energy change it experienced.
Speaker 2: The contrast is just it's mind boggling. When three i
atlts approached our Sun, it went from receiving an ambient
interstellar light flux of maybe ten to the minus eight
watts per square meter, basically nothing less energy then a
dust mote generates. It went from that to receiving about
seven hundred and thirty five watts per square meter from
our Sun at the two point five AU line. Wow,
that is an increase of about ten orders of magnitude
and energy hitting its surface all at once.
Speaker 1: And that massive energy spike is what triggered the whole
color shift sequence, essentially blasting off the layers of its
interstellar history in order.
Speaker 2: Precisely, that sudden, violent energy increase is what caused those
stored materials, the organics, the volatiles concentrated on the crust
to suddenly activate. So the red phase was the initial
lower temperature sublimation of the outer organic layer. The green
phase was the peak violent sublivation of the water ice
and everything trapped with it as it crossed the two
point five AU mark.
Speaker 1: And now the gold phase.
Speaker 2: The gold phase signals that those exotic interstellar acquired materials
are almost entirely spent. We are now seeing the residual
exposed core. The show is.
Speaker 1: Over, and that brings us to the fragmentation risk. If
the gold phase means that thin accumulate layer is gone,
what's the fate of the heavily processed, maybe unstable core underneath.
Speaker 2: This is a source of genuine worry among astronomers right now.
As all that material blasts off the surface, it carries
away mass, but it also carries away momentum so.
Speaker 1: It can start to spin.
Speaker 2: It creates forces torques that can dramatically change the object's
spin rate, and that leads to rotational stresses that the
already thermally processed which is a nice way of saying
possibly fractured nucleus might not be able to withstand.
Speaker 1: And we have to talk about the chilling parallel observation,
the thing that gives this gold color such an ominous meaning.
Speaker 2: Yes, the precedent a C twenty twenty five K one
Outlyss another out other outlas. This was a solar system
comet that also recently shifted to a golden hue, and
that shift signified the depletion of its main volatiles and
the exposure of its underlying structure. And crucially crucially, shortly afterward,
K one Outlyss started to fragment apart. It was a
widely observed event. It just disintegrated.
Speaker 1: So if we connect those dots, the gold color might
be a physical warning sign, not just a pretty visual effect.
Speaker 2: It could be the sublimation process itself, especially if it's
happening from specific active jets on the surface, can induce
these torques that just tear the object apart from the inside.
Speaker 1: Out, absolutely, And this object is now approaching its closest
distance to Earth, and it's still heading toward the massive
gravitational influence of Jupiter.
Speaker 2: So if it is structurally unstable, a stripped beer nucleus
that's now spinning faster and faster, this is the critical window.
This is when we might see it begin to come apart,
potentially producing a cloud of gold and dust, just like
kawan Atlas did.
Speaker 1: Okay, So we have this bizarre gold glowing, potentially fragmenting
object doing its final act. Given that the source material
was compiled very recently on the fifteenth, when is the
absolute most critical viewing window for our listeners to try
and see this thing?
Speaker 2: We need to pinpoint the date. The closest approach to
Earth is scheduled for December nineteenth. This makes all these
details incredibly timely for anyone hoping to catch it. This
is essentially your last best chance.
Speaker 1: And the viewing conditions are just by pure luck perfect,
which is so rare for these things.
Speaker 2: They are absolutely ideal, and it's all thanks to the moon.
December nineteenth coincides precisely.
Speaker 1: With a new moon, meaning the sky will be dark,
pitch black.
Speaker 2: The moon is positioned with the sun, so there will
be zero competing moonlight. And for tracking a dim, diffuse
object like three eyeatless, no moon is absolutely essential for
getting a clear view.
Speaker 1: So what are the logistics for someone who actually wants
to go out and look.
Speaker 2: The logistics are pretty good. For early birds. The object
will be visible fairly high above the horizon in the
early morning hours. What time we're talking typically between three
and four am, pinning on your location, of course, because
it's so high in the sky, you minimize any atmospheric distortion.
If you have a clear sky, even a decent pair
of binoculars, this is the time to look.
Speaker 1: And where in the sky should we be looking? Where
is it positioned?
Speaker 2: Three eye Atlas is making a very significant shift right now.
It is currently moving out of the constellation of Virgo
and heading directly into the constellation of Leo.
Speaker 1: And this this is where the story shifts from just
hard physics into something, well, something far more suggestive. The
celestial parallel that Stephan Burns himself noted it is truly uncanny.
Speaker 2: It's almost mythological when you think about it. Considered the
coincidence see twenty twenty five k one Atlas, the one
that fragmented, it shifted to gold, and it moved into Leo,
and now three eye Atlas is also moving into Leo
and at the exact same time glowing gold and Leo.
Speaker 1: The constellation of the Lion. It's historically been associated with royalty,
with kings, with the color gold and fire. To have
two objects named Atlas, one that broke apart and one
that's threatening to both turning gold as they enter the
constellation of Gold, that's a powerful synchronicity.
Speaker 2: It adds this layer of cultural meaning that humans just
naturally apply to these grand celestial events. But regardless of
the symbolism, the physics dictates urgency.
Speaker 1: It's dimming.
Speaker 2: The object has already begun dimming since its closest approach
to the Sun. That December nineteenth window is your last
critical opportunity, because as it moves into January, February, and
March of twenty twenty six, it's just going to keep
getting dimmer and dimmer as it travels further away, heading
for its final long distance encounter with Jupiter.
Speaker 1: It's moments like this that just redefine what scientific discovery
even means to understand an object like three I at lists,
you have to be a master of synthesis. You're connecting
the thermodynamics of ice sublimation to the quantum mechanics of
dicarbon emission and.
Speaker 2: Tracing the stability of these delicate metal carbonyl bonds across
the vastness of interstellar space. It's just a profound, unifying
lesson in how chemistry really dictates the entire narrative of
the cosmos.
Speaker 1: It's incredible the fact that a single small transient object
can act as a vessel carrying these complex organic precursors
across light years, and then it just reveals its entire
traumatic life story through predictable sequence of colors based purely
on energy. It just highlights how interconnected everything is.
Speaker 2: It makes every element we find, whether it's nickel or carbon,
feel like a clue left behind from some alien past.
Speaker 1: It does, and this incredible scientific complexity. It brings us
to a really fascinating dimension of the source material we've
been relying on today. Because the creator, Stephan Burns, he
uniquely blends this meticulous scientific analysis with a much broader,
more philosophical.
Speaker 2: Interpretation, right and this raises an important question. While we
as impartial guides, are focusing on the observable, quantifiable physics,
the spectroscopy, the au distances the fragmentation risk. It's always
fascinating how observers feel compelled to connect these dramatic celestial
events to broader concepts.
Speaker 1: To consciousness, spirituality.
Speaker 2: Exactly, especially when you have a parallel as striking as
the Leo Goold connection.
Speaker 1: It's hard to ignore it is, and.
Speaker 2: The source material explicitly explores this idea, the idea of
a potential energy connection, a psychic link between Earth and
three I at lists. During this closest.
Speaker 1: Approach, he makes a pretty bold claim, doesn't he He does.
Speaker 2: The Source creator asserts that their observations suggests the standard cosmological,
purely materialistic view is and I'm quoting, not even one
percent of what actually is happening in reality with consciousness
and spirituality. They see this moment as a convergence point.
Speaker 1: That's a powerful philosophical statement. It's deliberately challenging the prevailing
scientific paradigm. It's positing that the physical event has this
energetic or intuitive resonance that people can actually access. It
is so in the context of trying to connect to
this energy. Did the source material suggest any kind of methodology, Yes.
Speaker 2: Very specifically in a very practical physical sense, to potentially
build that psychic connection and receive, as they put, a
unique interstellar information or awakenings. The four suggested drinking a
specific tea blend during this critical timeframe around the nineteenth
A tea blend. A tea blend they call spiritual consists
of camomal mugwart, passionflower, and purple lotus flower. The intent
is to use this specific combination of herbs, which are
known for enhancing rest, relaxation, dream vividness, to allow an
observer to more intuitively tune in to the frequency of
this interstellar visitor.
Speaker 1: That is just an incredible contrast. We have the precise
hard data on one side, the sublimation rates, the nickel
carbonyl stability, and right alongside it you have the assertion
that one might need a blend of organic herbs to
tap into the true energetic meaning of the event.
Speaker 2: It's a compelling juxtaposition. It really reminds us that human
interpretation of the cosmos involves both the telescope and our
own inner experience.
Speaker 1: The scientific view is entirely focused on the external world,
on prediction.
Speaker 2: Exactly, and the alternative, as presented by the source, focuses
on the application of knowledge through consciousness and intuitive connection.
It's about integrating the physical phenomenon into a greater personal
or spiritual reality.
Speaker 1: It's a wonderful example of how one single cosmic event
can spawn two entirely different but equally passionate forms of inquiry.
Speaker 2: I think so, so let's recap.
Speaker 1: We watched this interstellar oddball go through a truly unparalleled evolution.
It started as this thermally sterilized red rock. It picked
up a thin, exotic skin during its long cold journey,
which then triggered a furiously active green glow near our sun.
Speaker 2: And now it has become a potentially fragmenting golden spectacle
moving into the constellation of kings Leo.
Speaker 1: It's an incredible story, and.
Speaker 2: What's so fascinating is the chemical narrative that the gold
color completes. It signals the depletion of its exotic interstellar
required materials. We are now most likely looking at the residual,
heavily processed core.
Speaker 1: A core weakened by two different star systems, a.
Speaker 2: Core potentially weakened by two distinct stellar eras. Yeah, the
stability of what's left and the speed of its rotation,
that's what's going to determine if three Eye at List
stays intact where its long, lonely rendezvous with Jupiter or
whatever it lies beyond.
Speaker 3: So you now have the full picture, the complex chemical details,
the hypothesis of its layered past, and the perfect viewing
window on December nineteenth, free from moonlight. Given that chilling
and frankly dramatic parallel with K one Atlas, the comet
that fragmented right after turning gold, do you think this
color is just a beautiful optical effect or is it
a beautiful cosmic warning sign that.
Speaker 1: Three Ie Atlas is about to disintegrate? What stands out
to you most about the bizarre three color journey of
this exceptional celestial visitor