3I/ATLAS: One Last Peek At The Interstellar Exocomet Before Exit By The Virtual Telescope Live Streamed (WATCH)

The third-ever interstellar object to cruise through the solar system after 1I/Oumuamua (2017) and 2I/Borisov (2019) was first spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, aka the ATLAS observatory based in Chile on July 1, 2025. The object was labeled 3I/ATLAS, wherein 3 and I meant the 3rd ever discovered interstellar body. And no cookies for guessing the ATLAS in the nomenclature. Ever since its discovery, 3I/ATLAS has been baffling experts and lay alike owing to its anomalous nature. Prof. Avi Loeb, the distinguished Harvard astrophysicist have flagged at least 17 anomalies including the peculiar anti-tail that is sunward and not receding even after the perihelion. While SETI looked for technosignatures and found none after five hours of scanning, Avi Loeb junks the methodology to be too short and swift to have been fruitful at all. While all major observatories including probes by NASA, ESA, and other global agencies are keeping a tab of the exocomet, the window for Earth-based probes to detect 3I/ATLAS visually is getting lower. However, the Italy-based The Virtual Telescope Project will give one last live peek at the exocomet as it cruises toward the Jovian moon Eupheme and eventually leaves the solar system. The live event will commence on January 17 at 2:30 AM IST. Watch the stream below. See Also: All 3I/ATLAS Scoop On Mashable India Here Cover : The Virtual Telescope Project

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