Amateur Astronomers May Have Spotted the Second Interstellar Object Ever Found
The astronomy community was buzzing in late 2017 after an object believed to have originated from outside our solar system was spotted speeding around the Sun and back out into interstellar space. Observations of the object sparked a debate among scientists who couldn’t decide whether it was a comet, an asteroid, or something else, but one thing was certain: Oumuamua, as the object was named, was not from our neck of the cosmic woods.
Now, in an exciting development that began in amateur astronomy circles, another potential interstellar visitor has been identified, and scientists are...…The astronomy community was buzzing in late 2017 after an object believed to have originated from outside our solar system was spotted speeding around the Sun and back out into interstellar space. Observations of the object sparked a debate among scientists who couldn’t decide whether it was a comet, an asteroid, or something else, but one thing was certain: Oumuamua, as the object was named, was not from our neck of the cosmic woods.
Now, in an exciting development that began in amateur astronomy circles, another potential interstellar visitor has been identified, and scientists are...WW…