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Map showing the high sand dunes, > 30 m height, to the south of Chinguetti. Credit: arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2402.14150 Three physicists have taken a new look at the circumstances surrounding the mysterious Chinguetti meteorite and developed a means for confirming whether it exists or not. In their paper posted …

3D map of dust in galaxy. Credit: arXiv (2023). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2308.01295 If you explore the night sky it won’t be long before you realize there is a lot of dust and gas up there. The interstellar dust between the stars accounts for 1% of the mass of the interstellar medium …

Artist’s impression of the interstellar object, ‘Oumuamua, experiencing outgassing as it leaves our solar system. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO, M. Kornmesser On October 19th, 2017, astronomers with the Pann-STARRS survey observed an interstellar object passing through our system—1I/2017 U1 ‘Oumuamua. This was the first time an ISO was detected, confirming …