Microscopic, metallic spheres were discovered during a 2023 oceanic expedition.
The BeLaU spherules are a collection of microscopic, metallic spheres enriched in beryllium (Be), lanthanum (La), and uranium (U), discovered during a 2023 oceanic expedition led by Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb. This mission aimed to locate remnants of a meteor, designated IM1, which entered Earth’s atmosphere in 2014 and was hypothesized to be of interstellar origin
The first interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System.
‘Oumuamua (pronounced oh-MOO-ah-MOO-ah) is a highly elongated, cigar-shaped object that became a topic of significant interest in the field of astronomy when it was discovered on October 19, 2017, by astronomers using the Pan-STARRS1 telescope in Hawaii[1].
