{"id":72269,"date":"2017-12-13T10:54:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T20:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=72269"},"modified":"2019-03-15T11:28:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T21:28:41","slug":"a-view-inside-an-interstellar-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/12\/13\/a-view-inside-an-interstellar-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"A view inside an interstellar discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/57z_be_WhYY?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>It came from beyond our stars, and these are the researchers who proved it. Astronomers <strong>Karen Meech <\/strong>and <strong>Richard Wainscoat<\/strong> discuss the discovery of the first proven interstellar object in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Foundation<\/a> video <em>Finding &#699;Oumuamua&#8212;The <abbr title=\"Institute for Astronomy\">IfA<\/abbr> team that discovered the Interstellar Visitor<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> News story<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/11\/20\/an-interstellar-visitor-unmasked\/\">An interstellar visitor unmasked<\/a>, November 20, 2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Multimedia Specialist <strong>Bryan Keith<\/strong> interviews Meech and Wainscoat at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifa.hawaii.edu\/\">Institute of Astronomy<\/a> giving amazing insight to the experience that these researchers had during the October discovery, despite being thousands of miles apart.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first in a future series of social media videos bringing interest and pride to the work and experiences of <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> students, faculty, staff and alumni.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42884\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42884\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/pan-starrs-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"358\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/pan-starrs-2.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/pan-starrs-2-260x150.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42884\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><abbr title=\"Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System\">Pan-STARRS<\/abbr>1 near the summit of Haleakal\u0101, Maui at dawn. (Photo credit: Rob Ratkowski)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Meech and Richard Wainscoat discuss the discovery of the first proven interstellar object in a <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Foundation video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[34,35,319,9,56],"class_list":["post-72269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-astronomy","tag-institute-for-astronomy","tag-uh-foundation","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72269"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74258,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72269\/revisions\/74258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}