Avi Loeb

But I'm saying this could be a major research frontier where you search for industrial pollution of planetary atmospheres.

Frankly, I find microbes boring.

I mean, obviously, it will be amazing to find that life exists elsewhere, but we can learn much more from an intelligent neighbor than we can learn from microbes.

What are the best images that we have of 3I Atlas?

The best one so far was released by the Hubble Space Telescope, and it shows this jet pointed towards the sun.

It was taken on July 21st, 2025.

Yeah, it's actually in one of my... No, that's from the ground, Gemini South.

That's more recent.

That's at the end of August.

So it's blue in one of my slides.

You can see of 3A Atlas, July 21st.

So it's one of the slides that has a blue...

Yeah, you see it on the right here.

So that's it?

That's it.

And the scale of the resolution, you know, the innermost pixel is hundreds of kilometers.

Okay?

It's about 100 kilometers per pixel or something.

The object itself should be 10 times smaller, so you can't really resolve it.

What you're seeing here is the glow of light around the object from scattering sunlight.