Earth may have debris from alien star systems trapped in its orbit, new research suggests

Astronomers have discovered that renegade objects from alien star techniques might be captured by Earth’s gravity and linger in orbit round our planet for probably hundreds of thousands of years. Nevertheless, most of those objects would doubtless be too small to detect with present telescopes, in response to a brand new research printed Might 17 on the preprint server arXiv.

“Objects getting into the photo voltaic system from the interstellar house exterior of it may be trapped into sure orbits across the solar because of an in depth passage to Jupiter,” co-author Avi Loeb, a professor of physics at Harvard College, advised Stay Science in an e-mail. “We examine the chance that a few of them are captured and grow to be Close to-Earth Objects (NEOs).”