MeerKAT Radio Telescope Prepares For a Second Listening Window as 3I/ATLAS Rushes Toward Its Closest Approach to Earth on December 19

MeerKAT Radio Telescope Prepares For a Second Listening Window as 3I/ATLAS Rushes Toward Its Closest Approach to Earth on December 19

Key Takeaways The first signals were faint, but unmistakably structured. The next twenty days may reveal whether they were coincidence or intent. If intelligence is involved, Earth’s first contact may not come from a spacecraft—it could come from a telescope in South Africa. What we pick up next may redefine the boundary between cosmic mystery and intelligent origin. USA HERALD – When South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope quietly registered an…