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No, astronomers did not just claim that ‘Oumuamua is an extraterrestrial probe
Yes, ‘Oumuamua is weird; and no, it is probably not a probe sent by an alien civilization. Sometimes scientists (and journalists) should be a little more careful when making (and reporting on) extraordinary claims, especially when the word “alien” is involved.
Help Advertise Astrobites in Your Department
Do you want to tell the undergraduates in your department about Astrobites? We have a poster for that!
A Delicate Binary Dance
The mere existence of a binary asteroid near Jupiter can enlighten us to conditions in the early Solar System and shake up what we thought we knew about this time period!
Signal-Dependent Interpixel Capacitance in HgCdTe Detector Arrays for NEOCam
This month’s undergraduate research post features a student who developed a procedure to help reduce image blurriness in specialized infrared detectors designed to find near-Earth asteroids. Read on to find out more!
How to Diagnose the Light from Early Galaxies
Understanding the physics of a certain emission line will allow astronomers to study galaxies that existed a long time ago far, far away.
The Spooky Origins of the Solar System
Dead zones!?! Dust?! An arbitrary pumpkin metaphor!?
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