Like one those mysterious people who shows up uninvited at a party, proceeds to blow everyone away with their karaoke singing, and then disappears before anyone can get their name or learn where they came from, the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua blasted through our solar system in 2017, surprising astronomers with its origin, strange oblong shape,. Read more »
A fireball that was recently seen over Brazil may have been an interstellar object. This is incredibly significant as only two other objects traveling through our Solar System have been identified as being interstellar – ‘Oumuamua and Comet 2I/Borisov. ‘Oumuamua was discovered in October of 2017 traveling at a whopping speed of 196,000 miles per. Read more »
If there’s one name associated with ʻOumuamua, the cigar-shaped first known interstellar object detected passing through our Solar System, it’s Harvard astronomy professor Avi Loeb, who from the day its discovery hit the news has promoted the idea that it’s not a space rock but quite possibly an alien-made object like a light sail that. Read more »