An interstellar asteroid has been studied for the 1st time… and it looks really odd

In October, astronomers using a powerful telescope in Hawaii caught sight of something they’d never seen before: an asteroid from interstellar space hurtling through our solar system. 

Now, about a month later, we have some sense of what that far-flung object looks like, and it’s unlike anything we’ve seen in our solar system. 

According to a new study published in the journal Nature this week, the asteroid, named `Oumuamua, is “about 10 times as long as it is wide, with a complex, convoluted shape,” Karen Meech, an astronomer with the Institute for Astronomy in Hawaii, said in a statement. 

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