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4ofN t1_itpg2lt wrote

What exactly is the "edge of space"? Phrases like that make me not want to click on the article.

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designatedhacker t1_itpjysv wrote

Same. If I've decoded the abstract, it came from further out in the solar system and was pulled inward by Uranus or Neptune.

It did not come miraculously from the edge of the observable universe overcoming the speed of causality and expansion of spacetime. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add8141

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SamBeamsBanjo t1_itpnfcn wrote

Yeah but wouldn't it have been cool if it did

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FrazzleBong t1_its0419 wrote

Considering the odds of it happening into our little realm of observation are basically zero and something would have had to cause that to happen, NO!

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Rattlez t1_ittsewk wrote

Well it would be completely impossible. Space is expanding faster than the asteroid would be able to travel through it for one. I think people are annoyed by titles like this because they are weak attempts at capturing people’s attention and wasting everyone’s time with some unimportant fleck of trivia.

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Rattlez t1_itts3ek wrote

Came here to say this! It’s almost as bad as “terrifying new discovery on Jupiter that changes EVERYTHING”…

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