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And personally, I would love it one day if we did happen to make contact, but unfortunately these phenomena we're seeing now are not part of that. 3I Atlas, it's likely the oldest thing ever seen in our solar system, maybe being around 17 billion years old. It's possibly between 17 and 14 billion years old. Our sun is probably the only star it's reached in millions of years. And the chemical composition gives a very good idea of its makeup, particularly of a gas cloud that formed the solar system that produced this ancient object.