Observatories including NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope found that the interstellar object named ‘Oumuamua gained an extra boost of speed, which likely comes from comet-like jets of gas.
Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/our-solar-system-s-first-known-interstellar-object-gets-unexpected-speed-boost
Find more Hubble visuals here: http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2018-25
Find the science paper in Nature here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0254-4
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Katrina Jackson
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