Is ‘Oumuamua an Interstellar Asteroid or Comet?

Is ‘Oumuamua an Interstellar Asteroid or Comet?

Observatories including NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope found that the interstellar object named ‘Oumuamua gained an extra boost of speed, which likely comes from comet-like jets of gas. Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/our-solar-system-s-first-known-interstellar-object-gets-unexpected-speed-boost Find more Hubble visuals here: http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2018-25 Find the science paper in Nature here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0254-4Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Katrina Jackson Music credit: "Midlands" by Marc Barrachina Sanchez [SGAE]; El Murmullo Sarao SGAE, Universal Sarao SGAE; SaraoMusic; Killer Tracks Production Music This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12988 If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAExplorerFollow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC · Twitter https://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/ · Instagram https://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard/