Artificial Spaceship Detected in the Solar System!

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No really - there's an artificial probe detected by astronomers to be moving at speed through the Solar System this week! It's Cherry Red, looks like a car, and used to belong to Elon Musk. Ok sorry for the bait! These observations actually give us a sense as to what an artificial interstellar interloper might look like. But this week hasn't been all cherries as the President takes aim at WFIRST, a next-gen space telescope which was the top recommendation of the US astronomy community in the last decadal survey.

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► Space-X website: http://www.spacex.com ► Popular Mechanics article on the rotation rate of the Roadster: https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/satellites/a17762760/heres-exactly-how-fast-elon-musks-tesla-is-spinning-in-space/ ► University of Hawaii news story on their images: http://www.hawaii.edu/news/2018/02/09/atlas-telescope-spots-tesla-roadster/ ► MMT video by Tim Pickering: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/science/nasa-dark-energy-wfirst.html ► WFIRST NASA website: https://wfirst.gsfc.nasa.gov ► Astro2010 Decadal Survey: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/bpa/bpa_049810 ► Columbia University Department of Astronomy: http://www.astro.columbia.edu ► Cool Worlds Lab website: http://coolworlds.astro.columbia.edu ► Background music by Evolv ("Higher Learning") and Adrian Walther ("Illuminate") licensed through Soundstripe.com

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