- Harvard scientists have raised the possibility that a mysterious cigar-shaped interstellar object, the first of its kind ever found in our solar system, could have come from an alien civilization.
- The scientists sought to explain quirks in Oumuamua's movement by calculating whether it could be powered by the sun's radiation.
- Nobody knows what Oumuamua is or where it came from, and it's too late to find out for sure.
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Mysterious interstellar 'Oumuamua' object could be a solar-powered alien probe, Harvard scientists say
The scientists found quirks in Oumuamua's movement that led them to wonder whether the object could be a solar-powered alien probe.
Harvard scientists have raised the possibility that a mysterious cigar-shaped interstellar object, the first of its kind ever found in our solar system, could be a probe intentionally sent towards Earth from an alien civilization.
The metal-rich object was found to be about 750 feet by 115 feet in size and reddish in color. It was moving inexplicably fast but not circling the sun.
Instead, it had dived between Mercury and the sun and was zooming past Earth on its way out of our solar system. This path meant that 'Oumuamua was an interstellar traveler from beyond the solar system. Scientists first called the object
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