NBC Universal, Inc. Harvard physicist says time will tell whether an obscure, bright object that is fast approaching could be of alien intelligence.

NASA on Wednesday released new images of an interstellar comet, just the third visitor ever confirmed from elsewhere in the galaxy, which show the object as a bright point of light surrounded by a blurry halo of gas and dust.

In the long-awaited photos, the comet, dubbed 3I/ATLAS , mostly appears as an illuminated dot, but some images also reveal its tail as a faint, elongated smudge.

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NASA / Goddard / SwRI / JHU-APL NASA / Goddard / SwRI / JHU-APL The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, circled in the center, as seen by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft. This ima

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