Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb said Thursday that telescopes around the world will be trained on the interstellar object known as 3I/Atlas as it makes its closest approach to Earth, calling the overnight observation window a rare opportunity to gather critical data under unusually favorable viewing conditions.
Loeb told Newsmax’s “The Record With Greta Van Susteren” that 3I/Atlas — only the third confirmed interstellar object ever detected — is drawing intense global attention as it nears Earth on Thursday night, with hundreds of observatories expected to monitor it simultaneously.
Loeb explained that the object originated far beyond the solar system and went unnoticed for millennia “because objects are very faint when they are far from the sun.”
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