At https://www.livescience.com/space/comets/comet-3i-atlas-is-losing-water-like-a-fire-hose-on-full-blast-rewriting-what-we-thought-we-knew-about-alien-star-systems … researchers have discovered comet 31/ATLAS has been shedding water. Initially, observations by the James Webb Telescope suggested it had a high co2 to water ratio. However, it was shedding water liberally even when it was far from the Sun.
At https://phys.org/news/2025-10-3iatlas-coma-cometary-formation-theory.html … comet 31/ATLAS has been constantly changing as it makes its way through our solar system.
At https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EvHkhc2bdw … which advocates solar wind modulation of activity on 31/ATLAS in which internal volatiles respond directly to the electromagnetic environment of the heliosphere. If so, coma brightness, or observable changes in the comet should correspond and track solar wind disturbances. The theory is that a comet’s coma is a plasma glow.
At https://phys.org/news/2025-10-magnetic-switchback-earth.html … NASAs Parker Solar Probe, in its close up look at the Sun, has revealed numerous kinks – or switchbacks in magnetic field lines in the outer atmosphere of the Sun. We now have what looks like switchbacks in Earth’s magnetic field. It involves charged particles known as plasma – with an origin not just in the solar wind but inside the Earth.