Blind Date Earlier this year, astronomers spotted a mysterious interstellar visitor, widely believed to be a comet, screaming through the solar system. With the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers had a closer look at the object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, revealing an unexpectedly high ratio of carbon dioxide to water for a comet, and a highly irradiated ice core. Ever since astronomers spotted the object, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has suggested the tantalizing possibility that it could be a relic from an extraterrestrial civilization that was "sent towards the inner solar system by design." To back up his far-fetched […]

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