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Wednesday, 05 November 2025 10.33 AM IST

Originated from another star system, Harvard astronomer's opinion that it could be alien aircraft, along with Baba Vanga's prediction; what is 3I/ATLAS?

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The scientific world is in a state of shock over the intrusion of an unknown 'interstellar visitor' from some unknown sphere in the universe into the solar system. Although it is not known what it is, NASA has named it 3I/ATLAS (officially C/2025 N1) and is keeping it under observation. It is assumed to be a comet, but other doubts are also raised.

While the planets, including Earth, orbit the Sun at a very close distance and follow a regular path, the “unknown ‘object’ is moving in a way that it rushes towards the Sun and makes a U-turn and returns. The movement is such that the speed increases and decreases suddenly. Radio waves with a wavelength of 1420 MHz are also emitted. The Parker probe sent by NASA has gone as close as 6.1 million kilometers to the Sun. However, the unknown object is going as close as 20 million kilometers and returning. With this, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has expressed his suspicion that this is an alien spacecraft.

Man-made spacecraft do not have the ability to follow 3I/ATLAS because the maximum speed of a spacecraft is 45,000 kilometers per hour. The 3I/ATLAS, on the other hand, is travelling at a speed of 1.30 lakh kilometers per hour.

There are fears that 3I/ATLAS could cause problems in the solar system. Some scientists have suggested that the object is made up of ice, carbon-rich materials, silicates, and water that formed billions of years ago, and that the sounds are caused by unusual chemical reactions between hydrogen atoms. They conclude that the 24-kilometre-wide object is a comet.

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Coming to Earth in December

  1. The European Space Agency's Mars orbiters, ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and Mars Express, captured images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in July.
  2. 3I/ATLAS is a bright cylindrical object moving through the far reaches of Mars. The images were taken from a distance of 30 million kilometers. Therefore, the clarity is poor.
  3. 3I/ATLAS is currently on the opposite side of the sun from Earth, a position known as solar conjunction. This makes it temporarily invisible from Earth. It will come to the other side after November 11. It will come close to Earth in December. NASA estimates that the closest it can get to Earth is about 270 million kilometers away. Therefore, there is no threat to Earth.
  4. The blind mystic Baba Vanga is said to have predicted that humanity will have contact with aliens in 2025. Some people associate this phenomenon with that prediction.
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