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Is the interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua a fragment of a shattered alien world?
Phil Plait
Apr 15, 2020
Artwork depicting the aftermath of an asteroid, comet, or planet being disrupted by a star, creating countless numbers of elongated objects like the interstellar visitor ‘Oumuamua. Credit: YU Jingchuan, Beijing Planetarium
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Where does the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov come from?
Phil Plait
Jan 20, 2020
Ross 573 (arrowed), a red dwarf star, may be the home for the second known interstellar visitor to our solar system, the comet 2I/Borisov. Credit: SIMBAD/Aladin/DSS
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Hubble observes an alien visitor: the comet 2I/Borisov
Phil Plait
Oct 17, 2019
Hubble Space Telescope image of the comet 2I/Borisov (formerly C/2019 Q4 (Borisov)). The blue color was added to a grayscale image. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Jewitt (University of California, Los Angeles)
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Updates on an alien visitor: The interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
Phil Plait
Sep 30, 2019
The interstellar comet 2I/Borisov imaged by the massive Gemini telescope on 9-10 September 2019. The telescope tracked the comet and took several images in red and blue filters, so the stars appear as a trail of multi-colored dots.
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Wait. *ANOTHER* interstellar object is passing through the solar system?
Phil Plait
Sep 13, 2019
‘Oumuamua, the first object ever seen passing through our solar system from interstellar space, was thought to be emitting gas like a comet to explain its weird motion, but a new idea is that the comet is just very, very porous. 
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Could interstellar visitors like 'Oumuamua actually help planets form?
Phil Plait
Apr 25, 2019
Artwork depicting what ‘Oumuamua might look like; observations indicate it’s highly elongated. But where did it come from? Credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser
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No, 'Oumuamua is not an alien spaceship. It might be even weirder.
Phil Plait
Feb 18, 2019
Artwork depicting what ‘Oumuamua might look like; observations indicate it’s highly elongated. But where did it come from? Credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser
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Is 'Oumuamua an interstellar spaceship? I'm still going with 'no.'
Phil Plait
Nov 7, 2018
‘Oumuamua, an asteroid from another solar system, is quite elongated and look very much like this artist’s impression of it. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
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The 'Oumuamua seems like science fiction come to life, from Superman to Star Trek
Cassidy Ward
Nov 6, 2018
‘Oumuamua, an asteroid from another solar system, is quite elongated and look very much like this artist’s impression of it. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
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So, 'Oumuamua is likely a comet after all
Phil Plait
Jun 28, 2018
‘Oumuamua, the first object ever seen passing through our solar system from interstellar space, was thought to be emitting gas like a comet to explain its weird motion, but a new idea is that the comet is just very, very porous. 
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