Last month’s discovery of a long, thin object floating ominously through space brought about some pretty fevered speculation about the company mankind keeps in this universe. Was it an alien spacecraft? Were little green men about to visit Earth? No to both, seems to be the answer, but while researchers still aren’t sure what the object — named “Oumuamua” — actually is, they have revealed that it appears to be covered in a thick layer of organic gunk and is icy cold on the inside.
