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Interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua slipped by NASA space telescope unseen

Interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua slipped by NASA space telescope unseen

7 December 2018

The Spitzer Space Telescope failed to spot ‘Oumuamua, the first interstellar object we’ve ever seen, but we were still able to learn something about this strange space rock
Earth may be made up of rocks blasted by gusts of solar wind

Earth may be made up of rocks blasted by gusts of solar wind

6 December 2018

The area in our solar system within Mercury’s orbit is empty, which may be because solar winds threw all the rocks farther out, where they helped form planets

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