Oumuamua Artist's Impression and Actual Image (IMAGE)

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Oumuamua Artist's Impression and Actual Image

Caption

This artist's impression shows the first interstellar object discovered in the Solar System, Oumuamua. Observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, CFHT, and others, show that the object is moving faster than predicted while leaving the Solar System. The inset shows a color composite produced by combining 192 images obtained through three visible and two near-infrared filters totaling 1.6 hours of integration on October 27, 2017, at the Gemini South telescope.

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ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO/M. Kornmesser, Gemini Observatory/AURA/NSF

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