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Posted by Deborah Byrd in Human World | Space | February 9, 2021 Physicist Avi Loeb of Harvard believes we should take seriously the idea that ‘Oumuamua – the 1st known object to pass through our solar system from interstellar space – might have been created by an alien civilization. His new book is called “Extraterrestrial.” On October 19, 2017, astronomers using the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii picked up a faint point of light moving across the sky. Some thought it was a comet. Others thought it looked like a typical fast-moving small asteroid. As they tracked its motion, though, astronomers began to be able to calculate the object’s orbit. They soon realized it couldn’t have been an ordinary asteroid or comet; all the asteroids and all (but one) of the comets we know originate inside our solar system. This thing wasn’t a solar system object. It was, without a doubt, from interstellar space. Since then, most astronomers have come to believe that

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