{"id":206336,"date":"2025-02-13T03:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T09:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/alpha-centauri-particles-already-lurk-in-our-solar-system-study-suggests"},"modified":"2025-02-13T03:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T09:29:11","slug":"alpha-centauri-particles-already-lurk-in-our-solar-system-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/alpha-centauri-particles-already-lurk-in-our-solar-system-study-suggests","title":{"rendered":"Alpha Centauri Particles Already Lurk in Our Solar System, Study Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YABoYgNKr-I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The appearance of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Interstellar_object\">Interstellar Objects<\/a> (ISOs) Oumuamua and Comet Borisov in 2017 and 2019, respectively, created a surge of interest.<\/p>\n<p>What were they? Where did they come from? Unfortunately, they didn\u2019t stick around and wouldn\u2019t cooperate with our efforts to study them in detail. Regardless, they showed us something: Milky Way objects are moving around the galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t know where either ISO came from, but there must be more \u2013 far more. How many other objects from our stellar neighbours could be visiting our Solar System?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The appearance of the Interstellar Objects (ISOs) Oumuamua and Comet Borisov in 2017 and 2019, respectively, created a surge of interest. What were they? Where did they come from? Unfortunately, they didn\u2019t stick around and wouldn\u2019t cooperate with our efforts to study them in detail. Regardless, they showed us something: Milky Way objects are moving [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}