© AFP/Getty Images An artist’s impression of Oumuamua, which is covered in a deep crust which gives the interstellar object a dark red colour, say researchers.
The mysterious interstellar object ‘Oumuamua that is shooting through our solar system is wrapped in a thick coating of carbon-rich gunk that built up on its cosmic travels, astronomers have found.
New observations of the cigar-shaped body found evidence for a deep surface layer that formed when organic ices – such as frozen carbon dioxide, methane and methanol – that make up the object were battered by the intense radiation that exists between the stars.
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Awesome!
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Oh c’mon, Bob. You know this isn’t just some “interstellar object.” Aliens are secretly traveling within its confines checking out the universe as they go. All that “thick coating?” It’s just stuff that’s built up over their travels through space.
Gosh. Maybe if we’re lucky, they’ll stop by earth for a look-see.
😀
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It’s covered in coal, baby, coal! Coal’s the most abundant thing in the universe! It’ll crash in America and give hundreds of millions of coal miners their jobs back. $Amen$
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Not wanting to disappoint, I’ll be posting something on “aliens” very shortly! 🙂
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It better be about legal aliens, pal, or I’ll sick Trump on ya’. 🙂
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Oh shit, they’re the illegal variety I think – lol!
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