We\u2019re gonna need a bigger telescope.<\/p>\n
Scientists have discovered that the 3I\/ATLAS \u2014 a Manhattan-sized interstellar object that potentially has alien tech \u2014\u00a0is much larger than previously thought, according to a new report.<\/a><\/p>\n First discovered by NASA on July 1, the cosmic anomaly has been under watch by Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb and his team as it shoots across the solar system. The object, which is believed to be a comet, reportedly has interstellar origins, making it the third ever object from beyond the solar system ever detected after \u2018Oumuamua, which was discovered in 2017, and 2I\/Borisov in 2019.<\/p>\n Now the team has gleaned some \u201csizable\u201d new intel on the interstellar visitor, namely that the \u201cmass of 3I\/ATLAS must be bigger than 33 billion tons,\u201d per a blog post<\/a> by Loeb.<\/p>\n Scientists have discovered that the 3I\/ATLAS \u2014 a massive interstellar object that potentially has alien tech \u2014\u00a0is much larger than previously thought, per a new paper Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb and his team. <\/p>\n Telescope image of interstellar object 3I\/Atlas (A11pl3Z) circled in red. K Ly\/Deep Random Survey \/ SWNS<\/p>\n They arrived at this number by calculating the object\u2019s trajectory to find that ATLAS\u2019s \u201cgravitational acceleration\u201d is \u201csmaller than 49 feet per day, squared,\u201d Futurism reported.<\/a><\/p>\n This was then compared to how much mass it was shedding via gases and dust particles to determine the size.<\/p>\n