{"id":18456,"date":"2018-06-28T01:48:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T17:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/thats-no-starship-or-asteroid-hubble-hints-that-interstellar-object-is-a-comet\/"},"modified":"2018-06-28T01:48:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T17:48:06","slug":"thats-no-starship-or-asteroid-hubble-hints-that-interstellar-object-is-a-comet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/thats-no-starship-or-asteroid-hubble-hints-that-interstellar-object-is-a-comet\/","title":{"rendered":"That\u2019s no starship \u2026 or asteroid: Hubble hints that interstellar object is a comet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News brief:<\/strong> Observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories indicate that the cigar-shaped interstellar object known as \u2018Oumuamua got an unexpected boost in speed and a shift in its trajectory as it passed through the inner solar system last year. Scientists surmise that the source of the boost was an outflow of gas and dust from \u2018Oumuamua, which suggests that the object is more like an active comet than a passive asteroid. The analysis is published in this week\u2019s issue of the journal Nature. Last year, \u2018Oumuamua\u2019s weird shape led some wags to wonder whether the object was a starship&nbsp;\u2014 and the newly published research just might spark a renewed outflow of gassy speculation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Is \u2018Oumuamua an Interstellar Asteroid or Comet?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PYxhxUik5PY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>For details about the findings, check out the Nature news report and the research paper, titled \u201cNon-Gravitational Acceleration in the Trajectory of 1I\/2017 U1 (\u2018Oumuamua).\u201d NASA will host a Reddit Ask Me Anything about the `Oumuamua observations from 1 to 3 p.m. PT Thursday. To participate, go to&nbsp;https:\/\/reddit.com\/r\/IAMA<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News brief: Observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories indicate that the cigar-shaped interstellar object known as \u2018Oumuamua got an unexpected boost in speed and a shift in its trajectory as it passed through the inner solar system last year. Scientists surmise that the source of the boost was an outflow of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3117,1519,2423,4259,898],"class_list":["post-18456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-oumuamua","tag-asteroids","tag-comets","tag-hubble","tag-hubble-space-telescope"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}