Space Oumuamua

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Our Solar System’s First Known Interstellar Object Gets Unexpected Speed Boost

This video explains how observatories, including NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, found that ‘Oumuamua gained an extra boost of speed, likely from comet-like jets of gas. Credits: NASA Watch the video here. This animation shows the path of `Oumuamua as it passed through the inner solar system, and its location on Jan. 2, 2018, when it was last observed by NASA’s…