From Sabine Hossenfelder.

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On July 1, the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile detected a new interstellar object named 3I/ATLAS entering our solar system. This is just the third-ever interstellar object to come to our solar system, and there are a few interesting things about 3I/ATLAS that make it particularly interesting. Some people are even saying it could be an alien probe. Let’s see what evidence they have.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12213

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