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A VISITOR FROM OUTER SPACE

Oumuamua. What was the large strangely shaped object that recently visited our solar system from outer space? On October 19, 2017, interstellar object, ‘Oumuamua—a Hawaiian term that translates to scout—was discovered by the Pan-STARRS survey. Astronomers first spotted the object as it passed through the inner solar system on a slingshot trajectory around the sun…