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1 million 'interstellar objects' — each larger than the Statue of Liberty — may lurk in the outer solar system


New simulations reveal that around 1 million "macroscopic" objects from our closest stellar neighbors, the Alpha Centauri system, may already reside in the Oort Cloud, far from sight.

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