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Earth may be partly made of rocks from elsewhere in the galaxy
We鈥檝e only seen one interstellar object, a rock called 鈥極umuamua that passed by in 2017, but they may be crucial to speeding up the planet-building process
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We鈥檝e only seen one interstellar object, a rock called 鈥極umuamua that passed by in 2017, but they may be crucial to speeding up the planet-building process
The Spitzer Space Telescope failed to spot 鈥極umuamua, the first interstellar object we鈥檝e ever seen, but we were still able to learn something about this strange space rock