All The Real Science of 3I/ATLAS. The Ultimate Guide

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3I/ATLAS is a mad topic surrounded by speculations about aliens and other controversial takes. But there's a lot of real science about this fascinating objects. So, in this video we put together all the major discoveries and scientific papers about 3I/ATLAS.

00:00 What is 3I/ATLAS
01:37 Discovery of the comet
Darryl Seligman and others https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02757
R. de la Fuente Marcos and others https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12922
04:41 Pre-discovery by other telescopes
Colin Orion Chandler and others https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13409
Adina Feinstein and others https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21967
05:58 More observations
Bin Yang and others https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.14916v1
David Jewitt and others https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02934
Martin Cordiner and others https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18209
Rohan Rahatgaonkar and others https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18382
11:19 Strange things happening
Matthew Hopkins et al https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05318
X. Pérez-Couto and others https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07678
13:06 Important milestones
14:14 Images from Mars
15:56 What's next?
Marshall Eubanks and others: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15768
16:42 Potential future flybys
17:58 Is it an alien spacecraft?
Avi Loeb https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12213
James Davenport and others https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.16825
21:17 Final thoughts

Host: Fraser Cain
Producer: Anton Pozdnyakov
Editing: Artem Pozdnyakov


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