In late 2017 the first known interstellar object to enter our solar system was discovered using a telescope in Hawaii and was named Oumuamua - the Hawaiian word for scout. We know from its angle of entry into our solar system that it came not from a long orbit around our own sun like comets from the Oort Cloud. This one has a more distant origin.
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In late 2017 the first known interstellar object to enter our solar system was discovered using a telescope in Hawaii and was named Oumuamua - the Hawaiian word for scout. We know from its angle of entry into our solar system that it came not from a long orbit around our own sun like comets from the Oort Cloud. This one has a more distant origin.