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Astronomy professor discusses scientific importance of 3I/ATLAS

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3I/ATLAS interstellar comet stars solar system astrology
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For more on 3I/ATLAS, Trending Now’s Manesa Dhanabalan spoke with Laura Parker, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at McMaster University.

They discussed the scientific importance of the object, how we can learn more about it and where it’s headed next and if it would ever come back close to Earth again.

Experts say it’s possible that the comet is older than our Earth and Sun but how do scientists determine the age?

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