What is a dark comet? A quick guide to the ‘new’ kids in the Solar System
- Written by Rebecca Allen, Co-Director Space Technology and Industry Institute, Swinburne University of Technology
Artist's impression of 'Oumuamua.ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO, M. KornmesserIn 2017, NASA discovered and later confirmed the first interstellar object to enter our Solar System.
It wasn’t aliens. But artist impressions of the object (called ‘Oumuamua, the Hawaiian word for “scout”) do resemble an alien spaceship out of a sci-fi...





