– The scientific community is embroiled in a heated debate over the origin of a mysterious interstellar object that entered our solar system last month.
While NASA initially identified the object, named 3I/ATLAS, as a comet after spotting what appeared to be a tail, Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb publicly challenged that conclusion on Thursday.
Speaking to CNN, Loeb revealed that the object’s unusual brightness suggests it is ‘not a common thing.’
‘The brightness of the object implies a diameter of
