Posts Tagged ‘oumuamua’

Have Oumuamua Aliens Been Watching Us? One Harvard Scientist Thinks So

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb created quite a stir in the scientific community in 2018, when he wrote a paper suggesting an interstellar object spotted in our solar system might be a surveillance vessel sent by an alien civilization. He claimed the object, which was named  Oumuamua (“scout” in Hawaiian), had unique characteristics that made a natural […]

Scientists determine ‘Oumuamua isn’t made from molecular hydrogen ice after all

The debate over the origins and molecular structure of ‘Oumuamua continued today with an announcement in The Astrophysical Journal Letters that despite earlier promising claims, the interstellar object is not made of molecular hydrogen ice after all. The earlier study, published by Seligman & Laughlin in 2020—after observations by the Spitzer Space Telescope set tight limits on […]

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