{"id":33726,"date":"2025-12-18T10:56:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/?p=33726"},"modified":"2025-12-18T11:09:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:09:40","slug":"3i-atlas-closest-approach-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/2025\/12\/18\/3i-atlas-closest-approach-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Interstellar object 3I\/ATLAS makes closest approach to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARABNORMAL NEWS &#8212;\u00a0All eyes are on <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/solar-system\/comets\/3i-atlas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3I\/ATLAS<\/a>. The interstellar object, which is largely said to be a comet, makes its closest approach to Earth on Friday in a rare visit from beyond our solar system.<\/p>\n<p>The object was discovered in July by NASA-funded ATLAS telescopes in Chile and is only the third confirmed interstellar visitor ever observed.<\/p>\n<p>3I\/ATLAS will remain a safe distance from Earth; about 168 million miles away and experts say it poses no threat to life on any planet.<\/p>\n<p>It will eventually continue back into interstellar space, never to return. So now is the best chance that astronomers have to observe and study 3I\/ATLAS.<\/p>\n<p>The closest approach is scheduled to happen around 1:00 am Eastern time on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>There will be several live streams tracking its approach including this one from the Virtual Telescope Project.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ficGuvPxV0s?si=mCDiJt2AHJJQm8Fz\" width=\"560\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Images: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/University of Arizona\/Southwest Research Institute\/Goddard\/LASP\/CU Boulder<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The interstellar object, which is largely said to be a comet, makes its closest approach to Earth on Friday in a rare visit from beyond our solar system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2000,1301,2073,15],"class_list":["post-33726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-3i-atlas","tag-comet","tag-interstellar-object","tag-space"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/news-3I-atlas-images-1125-1.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33726"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33731,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33726\/revisions\/33731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}