The “alien” is actually a potato. Specifically, it is a purple tuber nicknamed Spudnik-1, grown and photographed by Pettit.
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In honor of "Project Hail Mary"'s Rocky, we celebrate 17 sci-fi aliens who look nothing like humans
Because there's more to extra-terrestrial life than humans with prosthetics stuck to their foreheads.
I/ATLAS may be more than the strangest space object astronomers have observed within our solar system—it could also be one of ...
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