In 2017, astronomers spotted the first object ever confirmed to have come from another star system passing through our own: a strange, elongated visitor called ‘Oumuamua that seemed to accelerate as it left, in a way scientists are still debating - Space Daily
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In 2017, astronomers spotted the first object ever confirmed to have come from another star system passing through our own: a strange, elongated visitor called ‘Oumuamua that seemed to accelerate as it left, in a way scientists are still debating - Space Daily

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In October 2017, a survey telescope on Maui caught a faint, fast point of light that did not belong here. The object was moving too quickly, on the wrong kind of orbit, to have formed around our Sun. It had come from somewhere else, passed close to the Sun a …