00:00NASA just confirmed something truly bizarre in deep space.
00:03A mysterious object from beyond our solar system is heading toward Earth,
00:07and it's speeding up in a way scientists can't explain.
00:10Meet 3i Atlas, the fastest interstellar object ever detected,
00:15clocking in at over 152,000 mph.
00:18But here's the twist.
00:20Its trajectory just shifted off course, and not because of gravity.
00:24NASA says something gave it a mysterious push, and it's not the sun.
00:28Scientists expected gas jets if it were a comet, but there's barely any.
00:33So how is this 33-billion-ton rock accelerating like a spacecraft?
00:37And get this! Instead of turning red like comets do,
00:40it turned blue and started glowing brighter.
00:43Its chemical makeup? Not ice and water, but nickel and carbon dioxide,
00:47just like the protective shielding we use on our own probes.
00:50Now, Harvard physicist Avi Loeb believes this might be more than a comet.
00:54It could be a nuclear-powered alien mothership.
00:57And in just six weeks, it reaches its closest point to Earth.
01:00Is this our first contact?
01:02It goes in and out.
01:06No one does this.
01:08Everybody says about a comet.
01:09It is a little one.
01:11I was looking for a comet.
01:12It is a very strong comet.
01:14It is a very strong comet thatSpot Aquac.
01:16It is not a comet.
01:18It is a crater comet.
01:20So you can get a comet.
01:22I'm going for a comet.
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