Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is expected to reach its perihelion, or the closest point to the Sun in its highly eccentric path through our solar system, on October 29. Earlier this week, it reached its solar conjunction, meaning it’s on the exact opposite side of the Sun relative to Earth.

And while scientists have gathered significant evidence that the unusual visitor from another star system is a comet, largely made up of carbon dioxide ice, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb hasn’t given up his suspicion that it’s instead an enormous “mothership” that was sent to us by an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization.

Loeb has repeatedly pointed out all of the object’s “anomalies,” from its enormous suspected size to its unusual trajectory that took it suspiciously close to Mars earlier this mon

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