Theatre Of The Cosmos

Episode 002:  An Interstellar Visitor Hello and welcome, I'm Dr. Andrew J. Wagers - but you can call me Andy.  Join me as we discover that the cosmos doesn't just have a purpose, it has a storyline.  I have saved you a seat, so sit down as the house lights dim in the Theatre of the Cosmos. *************************************************************************** An Interstellar Visitor   By Original: ESO/M. KornmesserDerivative: nagualdesign [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons   Recently, you may have heard the announcement of an exciting discovery, astronomers claim to have found an asteroid from outside our solar system.  1I/2017 U1, or `Oumuamua (pronounced 'oh-oo-moo-ah-moo-a') was discovered on Oct. 19th of this year by the Pan-STARRS1 program at the University of Hawaii.  Pan-STARRS stands for, Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System and it was designed to detect near Earth asteroids and other transient