The obvious thing would be to point the hubble at it wouldnt it?
Can you let us know what happens with that ?
That would be an interesting thing to do.
Well, no.
Hubble aperture is about 2.4m and while that punches far above it's size, for a dark object you need to collect light.
You would want to use the GTC (10.4 m), HEC, the LBT, or the Kecks.
Today scientists led by Stephen Hawking are using high-tech scanners to discover if a huge, cigar-shaped space object currently hurtling through our solar system was sent by an alien civilisation.
Professor Hawking and his colleagues at Breakthrough Listen report: 'Researchers working on long-distance space transportation have previously suggested that a cigar or needle shape is the most likely architecture for an interstellar spacecraft, since this would minimise friction and damage from interstellar gas and dust.'
Another oddity is that Oumuamua is flying very 'cleanly', without emitting the usual cloud of space dust that astronomers observe around asteroids.
Oumuamua, the interstellar probe?
Today scientists led by Stephen Hawking are using high-tech scanners to discover if a huge, cigar-shaped space object currently hurtling through our solar system was sent by an alien civilisation.
Professor Hawking and his colleagues at Breakthrough Listen report: 'Researchers working on long-distance space transportation have previously suggested that a cigar or needle shape is the most likely architecture for an interstellar spacecraft, since this would minimise friction and damage from interstellar gas and dust.'
Another oddity is that Oumuamua is flying very 'cleanly', without emitting the usual cloud of space dust that astronomers observe around asteroids.
Oumuamua, the interstellar probe?
Maybe its got a protective force field around it ?
A huge object passing by Earth could be an alien spacecraft, scientists have said.
The bizarre cigar-shaped entity was previously thought to be an interstellar asteroid which had come from another part of the galaxy.
But evidence has been mounting which has led experts to suggest it could actually be a sign of intelligent life.
The object is hundreds of metres in length but only one tenth as wide which is highly unusual for a typical space rock, scientists have said.
It is also speeding through space at 196,000 mph, suggesting it is not gravitationally bound to the sun.
It doesn't. But space is mostly empty.One question that needs to be answered...if it is a derelict alien vessel is...how so that it evaded being smashed by interstellar rocks that it must of occasionally encounter?
It doesn't. But space is mostly empty.
The ISS has been up for decades and to my knowledge has only been hit by human debris which it sometimes changes orbit to avoid.
But if it has been moving through space for any long length of time something big or small will hit it and we know what even a small object can do at like a pebble. We also know that most space rocks are riddled with craters.