NASA on Wednesday released new images of 3I/ATLAS that agency officials say proves the interstellar object is a comet, albeit an unusual one. But Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb says Earthlings won’t definitively know until Dec. 19, when 3I/ATLAS gets closest to our planet. “Let’s wait and see,” he told “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” on Wednesday. “Bureaucrats or unimaginative scientists want us believe in the expected, but the rest of us know the best is yet to come.” #3I/ATLAS #COMET #NASA | NewsN

Physicists have captured a rare illusion of an object moving at 99.9% the speed of light. | Hashem Al-Ghaili