Interstellar Space

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No, 'Oumuamua is not an alien spaceship. It might be even weirder.
Phil Plait
Feb 18, 2019
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Artwork depicting what ‘Oumuamua might look like; observations indicate it’s highly elongated. But where did it come from? Credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser
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So, about that 'interstellar asteroid' announced yesterday…
Phil Plait
May 22, 2018
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Eros, a lumpy potato of an asteroid, is pretty typical of such solar system objects. Credit: NASA
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Did our first known interstellar visitor come from a dead star?
Phil Plait
Jan 4, 2018
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Artwork depicting what ‘Oumuamua might look like; observations indicate it’s highly elongated. But where did it come from? Credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser
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So long, rock from an alien solar system. I mean that literally: So. Long.
Phil Plait
Nov 21, 2017
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‘Oumuamua, an asteroid from another solar system, is quite elongated and look very much like this artist’s impression of it. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
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An interstellar rock gets a name
Phil Plait
Nov 8, 2017
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When it was still called A/2017 U1, the object was spotted by the William Herschel Telescope on the island of La Palma. The telescope guided on the motion of the object, so stars appear to trail.
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BREAKING! Have astronomers discovered our first interstellar visitor? NOTE: Not aliens
Phil Plait
Oct 27, 2017
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The interstellar asteroid A/2017 U1, images using a 40 cm telescope when the object was about 60 million km from Earth and at a magnitude of 22 (that’s very faint). Credit: Gianluca Masi (Virtual Telescope Project) and Michael Schwartz (Tengra Observatory
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Far out: NASA's Voyager 1 craft has officially reached interstellar space
Trent Moore
Jul 8, 2014
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