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And scientists think the glow is coming from 31 Atlas, the sun's facing side. However, Abby Wohl and her colleagues have an intriguing, hard-to-accept theory that the strange object is producing its own light. Others on this team feel that this steep brightness profile is an indication that the light has been produced in the nucleus. If so, its actual size is much smaller than current calculations, probably placing the size and range of a little more in the 21 slash course on the topic.