WASHINGTON DC – Nasa has called an urgent briefing today to share a series of updates on the mysterious “interstellar object”.

The so-called “alien visitor”, currently steaming towards our planet after rounding the Sun, has become the centre of a raging debate over its true origins.

But today, NASA will be hosting a live event at 8pm GMT to share new images of the comet, officially designated 3I/ATLAS.

The “probe” is only the third object ever to travel through our solar system from elsewhere in the galaxy.

And just days ago, astronomers shed further light on 3I/ATLAS’s makeup.

David Jewitt and Jane Luu found the visitor’s body was intact having travelled around our star.

It was surrounded by a glowing coma – a plume of gas that is stretched out in two directions, one pointing toward

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