Artificial Spaceship Detected in the Solar System!

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.

::More about this Video::

► Space-X website: www.spacex.com/
► Popular Mechanics article on the rotation rate of the Roadster: www.popularmechanics.com/space/satellites/a1776276…
► University of Hawaii news story on their images: www.hawaii.edu/news/2018/02/09/atlas-telescope-spo…
► MMT video by Tim Pickering: www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/science/nasa-dark-energ…
► WFIRST NASA website: wfirst.gsfc.nasa.gov/
► Astro2010 Decadal Survey: sites.nationalacademies.org/bpa/bpa_049810
► Columbia University Department of Astronomy: www.astro.columbia.edu/
► Cool Worlds Lab website: coolworlds.astro.columbia.edu/
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