Dr. Avi Loeb, a Harvard physicist, has sparked a significant debate in the scientific community by suggesting that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, which recently passed through our solar system, might not be a comet at all, but rather a nuclear-powered spaceship. The object, detected in early July by an Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Chile, marks only the third time an interstellar object has been observed entering our solar system, according to NASA.
Loeb, who initially raised concerns about the object’s unusual characteristics, noted that an image captured showed an unexpected glow in front of the object rather than trailing behind it. This observation, he said, was