Celebrities Pose Questions About Newly-Discovered Comet 3I/ATLAS

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Questions still surround 3I/ATLAS, a newly-discovered comet — and even some celebrities are chiming in

Harvard professor Avi Loeb previously suggested that the comet could be “alien technology,”

Other experts have pushed back on that theory, though some admit the odds of it being an extraterrestrial object are “non-zero"

3I/ATLAS is a comet, not an alien, according to many experts. But some celebrities, and even one Harvard professor, have questions about the interstellar object.

The NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first reported observations of 3I/ATLAS to the Minor Planet Center on July 1, according to NASA’s website .

An observatory in South Africa even recently detected the first radio signa