interstellar objects

This figure illustrates how an interstellar object is rapidly approaching our solar system. Ejected from its home planet system long ago, the object traveled through interstellar space for billions of years before passing briefly in our cosmic neighborhood. The Robin Observatory will reveal many of these unknown interstellar visitors.

Visitors from distant stars: The Rubin Observatory will detect a multitude of interstellar objects moving through our solar system

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The Vera Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will revolutionize solar system science by discovering a population of previously undiscovered interstellar comets and asteroids passing through the neighborhood
The diagram shows the path of the interstellar object "Umoamoa" that crossed the solar system. The diagram shows the original trajectory of "Omoamoa" and the new trajectory, which takes into account the newly measured speed of the object. Image: ESA/HUBBLE

Has the mystery behind the first visitor from outside the solar system been revealed?

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'Umoamua may be composed of hydrogen ice, which explains its unusual properties. Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, but it is rarely found in the solid state