{"id":303800,"date":"2025-12-19T18:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/controversial-comet-to-reach-its-closest-point-to-earth-today\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T18:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:00:03","slug":"controversial-comet-to-reach-its-closest-point-to-earth-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/controversial-comet-to-reach-its-closest-point-to-earth-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial comet to reach its closest point to earth today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/EfUGVIJnK8w\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Controversial comet to reach its closest point to earth today\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EfUGVIJnK8w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>A comet which has divided scientific opinion is reaching its closest point to Earth today.<\/p>\n<p>One Harvard University astrophysicist has even claimed that 3i Atlas could be carrying an extraterrestrial spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t expect an earth landing &#8211; the comet which was first spotted in July, will be 170 million miles away and is travelling at well over 100 thousand miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Avi Loeb said it is highly likely that it is a natural object but scientists should consider all eventualities.<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comet which has divided scientific opinion is reaching its closest point to Earth today. One Harvard University astrophysicist has even claimed that 3i Atlas could be carrying an extraterrestrial spacecraft. Don&#8217;t expect an earth landing &#8211; the comet which was first spotted in July, will be 170 million miles away and is travelling at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":303801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128813],"tags":[141123,141787,128949],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-303800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-channel-4-news","tag-comet","tag-divided","tag-which"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Controversial comet to reach its closest point to earth today | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Controversial comet to reach its closest point to earth today for free, here on News ISC. 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