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Alien Probe or Eccentric Comet? This Space Mystery Won’t End

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE

Five years after it was first discovered, ‘Oumuamua—the first interstellar object we’ve seen visit the solar system—continues to polarize scientists.

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Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/NASA/Getty

In September 2017, a very strange object streaked fast across the solar system and passed close to the sun before heading away. Shiny, oblong and potentially hundreds of feet in length, the object was unlike

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