‘Oumuamua: The Visitor from Another Star That Refused to Behave
About 6 min readIn October 2017, a telescope in Hawaii spotted something no one had ever seen: an object from another star system, tumbling through ours on a path that would never return. It was red, enormously elongated, showed no comet’s tail — and then it sped up, for no reason anyone could see. Nine years later, the debate about what it was has still not ended.