Interstellar Visitors: Awe, Evidence, and the Quest to Understand Our Solar System
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Interstellar visitors such as 1I/'Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov, and 3I/ATLAS challenge our view of the solar system, spark debates over natural versus alien origins—led by Avi Loeb and Shmuel Bialy—and push scientists to imagine future sampling missions and the idea that our probes could be seen as interstellar messengers by other civilizations.