Three independent teams just mapped the ignition sequence for 3I/ATLAS. It isn’t a comet.

Mainstream keeps calling it a weird comet, but a new paper just mapped the exact moment its gas system ignited.

When you stack this with other recent data from Harvard and Shanghai telescope, it doesn't look like melting ice. It shows a staged "power-on" sequence.

We realized we are looking at different chemical systems activating at different distances from the sun, and an exhaust cloud brightening by 10x while holding a fixed geometric shape.

We put together a timeline to break it down and explain.