In case you missed it, there’s a fascinating object from another part of the universe visiting our neck of the woods.

Dubbed 3I-ATLAS — “three” as in the third known interstellar object from outside of our solar system — the bizarre entity has had the astronomical community in a quiet fervor since it was first spotted in early July.

The object is widely believed to be an interstellar comet, although a handful of experts, including Harvard’s ever-controversial astronomy researcher Avi Loeb, have suggested that it might be a visitor from an alien civilization. Many of Loeb’s peers have dismissed that possibility, but that hasn’t quieted the firebrand researcher.

The object is currently hidden behind the Sun, where it’s slated to remain unobservable from Earth for the better part of a mont

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