StarTalk Podcast: Cosmic Queries – 'Oumuamua
On this episode of StarTalk Radio, Neil deGrasse Tyson, comic co-host Chuck Nice, and cosmochemist and author Natalie Starkey answer fan-submitted Cosmic Queries about ‘Oumuamua, the first detected interstellar object that passed through the solar system. To start, Chuck wonders why we even study space rocks if they’re all the “same.” Natalie tells us how studying space rocks helps us understand our solar system when studying Earth only tells us so much. You’ll learn why asteroids might be the leftover building blocks from planets. We ponder what might be hiding in the Oort Cloud and why ‘Oumuamua is basically an interstellar vagabond. You’ll find out more about ‘Oumuamua’s discovery and how it got its name. We also talk about the only other interstellar object we’ve documented (so far). What is the likelihood we will see another interstellar object? Natalie explains the difficult task of looking in the right place at the right time since interstellar objects can, literally, come from anywhere. How do we differentiate an interstellar comet from a comet that came from the Oort Cloud? We explore the idea of panspermia. Could life survive such a perilous journey similar to ‘Oumuamua’s? Lastly, Natalie helps us understand why ‘Oumuamua’s shape is so peculiar. All that, plus, we ask the obvious question: was it sent by aliens? Thanks to our Patrons Christopher Sukhanenya, Dmitry Pugachevich, Eugenio Barrera, Colton Cichocki, Brad Sofka, Atle Beckmann, Alex Prieto, Dorothy Papadakos, Steven Bunevitch, and Johnathan Bynog for supporting us this week. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/startalkradio "Black Swan” & "White Swan" limited edition serigraph prints by Coast Salish artist Jane Kwatleematt Marston. For more information about this artist and her work, visit Inuit Gallery of Vancouver https://inuit.com/. FOLLOW or SUBSCRIBE to StarTalk:
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Why Oumuamua May Have Been The First Sign of Intelligent Life with Dr. Avi Loeb
In this interview with Avi Loeb, the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science and astrophysicist at Harvard University, he explains why in his new book, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth, he has put forth the theory that our first interstellar visitor to be spotted in our solar system, Oumuamua, might just be the first sign of intelligent life beyond earth. Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth https://amzn.to/2LiIxoo affiliate link Loeb, A., 2018, "Six Strange Facts About`Oumuamua", Scientific American: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08832 Bialy, S. & Loeb, A., 2018, "Could Solar Radiation Pressure Explain ‘Oumuamua’s Peculiar Acceleration?", ApJ, 868, 1: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11490 Want to support the channel?
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Is 'Oumuamua Alien Technology?
Three years ago, we detected the first interstellar object passing through the Solar System, `Oumuamua. Ever since, astronomers have been debating the origins of this strange body. Whilst many hypothesize an asteroid, the media is ablaze with the possibility that it could be alien technology. Join us today for a discussion of this theory and the counter-arguments proposed. Written & presented by Prof David Kipping. Thanks to Dr Sean Raymond for fact checking - check out his blog www.planetplanet.net and astro poetry book https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LFZZWGZ You can now support our research program and the Cool Worlds Lab at Columbia University: https://www.coolworldslab.com/support Get Stash here! https://teespring.com/stores/cool-worlds-store Thank-you to our supporters K. Clark, T. Widdowson, D. Smith, S. Hackley, M. Sloan, L. Sanborn, K. Kantor, P. Herman, C. Bottaccini, D. Brunk, D. Daughaday, S. Fincher, J. Kindred, A. Jones, J. Allen, S. Baldwin, J. Black, S. Brownlee, D. Denholm, T. Dorais, G. Downton, E. Urrestarazu, G. Fulton, S. Griffiths, P. Halloran, J. Jurcevic, N. Kildal, J. Kobernick, W. Kobernick, V. Kremer, M. Lijoi, S. Loftin, B. Loizides, A. Maslyanchuk, B. Matson, O. Mcintyre, L. Mitchell, A. Pelletier, J. Rivillas, B. Robinson, Z. Star, L. Steely, E. Stefan-Matyus, M. Steven, E. West, B. York, T. Zanjonc, P. Gowd, S. Kelsey, P. Kommareddy, C. Wolfred, D. Vennel, E. Dessoi, F. Naeem, F. Rebolledo, H. Laging, J. Falls, P. Rutherford, T. Leger, L. Skov, D. Roberts, E. Wilson, I. Baskerville, J. Bassnett, J. Shackleford, I. Johnstone, G. Suter, I. Hopcraft, J. Valdes, P. Akrill-Misso, W. Robertson, E. Orman, G. Ingham, D. Van Hecke, J. Pilloff, T. Bernhard. D. Dianovszki, E. Cook, S. Mass, T. Richards, T. Lancaster, C. Stouffer, G. Benson, A. de Vaal, C. Diamantis, J. Wenzel, M. Elliot, M. Wallstab, S. Bialek, B. Thomson, B. Daniluk, B. Bowen, D. Jacobson, D. Lukens, G. Coogan, J. Bushong, M. Wacinski, M. O'Donnell, M. Forbes, S. Vystoropskyi, S. Carr, T. Laird, S. Lee, T. Tschopp W. van den Wollenberg, Z. Danielson, Z. Turner, E. Fernandes, E. Vinci, L. Holc, S. Grant, S. Seyer, J. Patrick-Saunders, P. Conroy, R. Clifton, C. Butler, M. Peraic, N. Cordova, P. Inkpen &
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Oumuamua and Comet Borisov Entering and Exiting the Solar System
'Oumuamua: A Mysterious Interstellar Interloper
'Oumuamua: A Mysterious Interstellar Interloper
Dr. Amaya Moro-Martin, Space Telescope Science Institute
During the formation of our solar system, a tremendous number of asteroids, comets, and planetesimals were ejected into interstellar space by gravitational encounters. If extrasolar planetary systems, which are now known to be quite common, experienced a similar development, then our galaxy should be teeming with these expelled objects. Astronomers were perplexed that none had been found passing through our solar system.
Then, in 2017, the discovery of ‘Oumuamua transformed the situation from puzzlement to bewilderment. Observations with a wide range of telescopes followed the brightness and trajectory of this first interstellar interloper but left important questions about its origin and composition unanswered. Further, what process was responsible for the non-gravitational acceleration found in its unbound orbit? This cosmic visitor will not return to provide explanations. Thus, the intriguing inquiries ‘Oumuamua left behind will remain as we seek out and study other guests from beyond our solar system.
Host: Dr. Frank Summers, Space Telescope Science Institute Recorded live on Tuesday, July 7, 2020. More information: www.stsci.edu/public-lectures
Interstellar objects 'Oumuamua and Borisov studied by European observatories
The European Southern Observatory used many of its telescopes to study 1I/'Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov, the first interstellar objects humanity has discovered flying through our solar system. -- Why Was 'Oumuamua So Weird? New Research Tries to Track Its Origins:(https://www.space.com/interstellar-object-oumuamua-origins-explored.html) Strange ingredient in interstellar Comet Borisov offers a clue to its origins (https://www.space.com/interstellar-comet-2i-borisov-strange-composition-discovery.html) Credit: ESO
ESOcast 224: First Interstellar Visitors to the Solar System
By using ESO telescopes and other facilities, astronomers often glance into far-away planetary systems to gather clues about them. But, on rare occasions, scientists get to study these distant systems by looking much closer to home, when visitors from other corners of our galaxy drop by our Solar System. Meet the First Interstellar Visitors. Download this video on various formats on: https://www.eso.org/public/videos/esocast224a/ Credit:
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New Interesting Explanation on The Origin of 'Oumuamua
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Would You Like to Name an Asteroid, Comet, or Star?
Senior Astronomer Seth Shostak explains how to get your name associated with an astronomical object such as asteroids, comets, and stars.
We Think a Solar Sibling Threw This Comet at Us Millions of Years Ago
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Where is Oumuamua?
A new interview with Darryl Seligman from the astronomy department at Yale with an update on the subject of Oumuamua. We detail his findings that the interstellar object Oumuamua is an extremely strange object with unknown origins, though there has been some progress in determining it’s shape and composition. Also, ESO has decided on a comet intercept mission that will target interstellar object over the next decade. Mysterious 'Oumuamua interstellar object may have simple explanation after all
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/mysterious-oumuamua-interstellar-object-may-have-simple-explanation-after-all-ncna985466 https://www.darrylseligman.com/ On the Anomalous Acceleration of 1I/2017 U1 `Oumuamua
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.04723 "COULD SOLAR RADIATION PRESSURE EXPLAIN ‘OUMUAMUA’S PECULIAR ACCELERATION?", Bialy and Loeb, 2018
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A Strange Object Found In Space
A Strange Object Found In Space
► Subscribe: https://goo.gl/r5jd1F Astronomers have cataloged eight planets, 6,500 comets and more than 525,000 asteroids, but a mysterious thing happened on October 19, 2017 in Hawaii that grabbed the attention of millions of people and scientists around the world because what they discovered was unlike anything seen before. The first ever recorded interstellar object was found to have entered our solar system somewhere from deep space. It was given the name Oumuamua, named after the Hawaiian term for ‘scout’ or ‘messenger from afar’, and its path showed that it was not gravitationally bound to our own solar system. But what was this strange object, and where did it come from? #space #objects #strangespace
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Oumuamua, a quarter-mile long asteroid tumbling through space, is Hawaiian for "scout", or "the first of many".It was given this name because it came from another solar system. Some claimed 'Oumuamua was an alien technology, but there's no actual evidence for that.
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MICHELLE THALLER: Dr. Michelle Thaller is an astronomer who studies binary stars and the life cycles of stars. She is Assistant Director of Science Communication at NASA. She went to college at Harvard University, completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, Calif. then started working for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) Spitzer Space Telescope. After a hugely successful mission, she moved on to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), in the Washington D.C. area. In her off-hours often puts on about 30lbs of Elizabethan garb and performs intricate Renaissance dances. For more information, visit
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TRANSCRIPT: MICHELLE THALLER: In 2017, we discovered the first visitor to our solar system that actually came from another star. This is really true. We discovered a really interesting type of asteroid-- a rock flying through space. And it was something that we'd never seen before. We knew for a fact that this rock could not have come from our solar system. It was going so fast that it had enough velocity to escape the Sun's gravity entirely. In fact, when it went past the Sun, in late 2017, at top speed it was going 196,000 miles an hour. That's by far enough velocity to completely go away from the Sun's gravity and go all the way out into interstellar space. Now, this object was discovered by a program called Pan-STARRS, which is run by the University of Hawaii. It's a telescope that looks for near-Earth objects, as partially funded by NASA. NASA actually scans the sky, looking for asteroids. We want to make sure the earth is never under any threat from an asteroid that might be coming near us. We're also very interested scientifically in where the asteroids are and how they formed. It was named 'Oumuamua. And that's the Hawaiian word for scout-- the first arriving of many. And this was the first thing we'd ever seen from another star. So the idea of being the first, being a scout was a wonderful and poetic thing to name this thing. To give you a sense of how unusual 'Oumuamua is, we know that it's a rock like an asteroid in our solar system, but it has a completely different shape. We've never seen anything in our solar system that looks like this. It's about a quarter of a mile long, and it's actually elongated like a cigar. It's 10 times as long as it is wide, and we know that it's tumbling through space. It actually tumbles and rotates around its axis about once every seven hours. Now, that means it's tumbling pretty fast. So in order to stay together and not just fly apart, it must be pretty rigid, made of rock or even something metallic. So it's a hard object, elongated, tumbling through space at incredible speeds. There also is something mysterious that happened as this object left our solar system. It's actually now around the orbit of Jupiter. And that is it changed its trajectory just a tiny little bit. It actually sped up a tiny little bit as it went away from the Sun. And that wasn't expected. We've seen that sort of behavior from things like comets. That when comets have a bit of gas or something trapped under the surface and the Sun warms it up, you can get a little jet that comes off the comet-- a little jet of gas that changes its velocity. We didn't think that 'Oumuamua had any of those volatiles, those gases on it, but apparently it did. As it went away from the Sun, it changed its trajectory just a little bit. It also has attracted some attention because some people have wondered, could this be a technology? Could this be a spaceship or part of a spaceship? Or some people have talked about a lightsail-- something that actually can use stellar winds to accelerate and move between the stars. I'm always very concerned when somebody suggests a natural object like 'Oumuamua might be an alien spaceship because, for one thing, I think it takes away from the incredible real facts we know about this object. And in my view of the universe, aliens are definitely not impossible-- there could be other life outside the earth. There could even be other technologies outside the eart... For the full transcript, check out https://bigthink.com/videos/oumuamua
The Mysterious Interstellar Object Oumuamua With Harvard's Dr. Avi Loeb
A new interview with Dr. Abraham "Avi" Loeb from Harvard and update on the subject of Oumuamua. We detailed point for point his findings that Oumuamua is an extremely strange object, regardless of its origins, and that it may be consistent with a light sail of some type. This is part one of a two part interview with Dr. Loeb. Have Aliens Found Us? A Harvard Astronomer on the Mysterious Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua :
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/have-aliens-found-us-a-harvard-astronomer-on-the-mysterious-interstellar-object-oumuamua "‘Oumuamua’s Geometry Could be More Extreme than Previously Inferred", Siraj and Loeb, 2019.
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/SL.pdf 6 Strange Facts about the Interstellar Visitor Oumuamua:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/6-strange-facts-about-the-interstellar-visitor-oumuamua/ "COULD SOLAR RADIATION PRESSURE EXPLAIN ‘OUMUAMUA’S PECULIAR ACCELERATION?", Bialy and Loeb, 2018
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.11490.pdf Is Oumuamua A Light Saul? Featuring Dr. Avi Loeb: https://youtu.be/VlpVIyBCG3s Why The Universe May Be Full Of Alien Civilizations Featuring Dr. Avi Loeb: https://youtu.be/6ckgBxRASTo Website:
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Q&A 74: Can We Be Ready for the Next Oumuamua? And More...
In this week's questions show, I wonder what we'd do if we actually found life, if we can be ready for the next interstellar asteroid, why the Mars 2020 rover is going to help with sample return and more. Cosmic Horizons episode about galaxies disappearing:
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[email protected]Does Interstellar Panspermia Seed Life? Featuring Dr. Karen Meech
John Michael Godier discusses if there could be life on ice shell moons like Europa and Enceladus and the possibility of interstellar objects such as Oumuamua seeding life on other planets with Dr. Karen Meech of the University of Hawaii which discovered the first interstellar object Oumuamua, with the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope. What is Oumuamua? With Dr. Karen Meech: https://youtu.be/8Q7TzLH2cRA Website:
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10 Reasons Why Oumuamua Will Blow Your Mind
10 Reasons the first discovered interstellar object Oumuamua will blow your mind.
1I/2017 U1, or Oumuamua, which has turned out to be one of the strangest objects yet seen by astronomers. The University of Hawaii discovered the first interstellar object, named 'Oumuamua, with the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in November of 2017. The Mysterious Interstellar Object Oumuamua: https://youtu.be/UwNqdc788QM What Is 'Oumuamua? With Dr. Karen Meech:
https://youtu.be/2HBgsiOGOwI What Does 'Oumuamua Look Like? Featuring Dr. Karen Meech: https://youtu.be/8Q7TzLH2cRA Is 'Oumuamua a Light Sail? Featuring Dr. Avi Loeb: https://youtu.be/VlpVIyBCG3s The story of 'Oumuamua, the first visitor from another star system | Karen J. Meech: https://youtu.be/rfi3w9Bzwik You can now support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/EventHorizonShow Website:
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https://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso1737/eso1737a.pdf "Six Strange Facts About`Oumuamua", A. Loeb, 2018
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08832 "Could Solar Radiation Pressure Explain 'Oumuamua's Peculiar Acceleration?", Bialy and Loeb, 2018
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The Mysterious Interstellar Object Oumuamua
A full exploration of the first interstellar object ever confirmed, 1I/2017 U1, or Oumuamua, which has turned out to be one of the strangest objects yet seen by astronomers. Event Horizon Interviews: Dr. Karen Meech on Oumuamua https://youtu.be/2HBgsiOGOwI https://youtu.be/8Q7TzLH2cRA Dr. Avi Loeb: https://youtu.be/VlpVIyBCG3s Papers: "Plausible home stars of the interstellar object 'Oumuamua found in Gaia DR2", Bailer-Jones et al, 2018 https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09009 "Prospects for Backtracing 1I/`Oumuamua and Future Interstellar Objects", Q. Zhang, 2018. https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.08059 "
1I/2017 'Oumuamua-like Interstellar Asteroids as Possible Messengers from the Dead Stars", R. Rafikov, 2018 https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02658 "DISCOVERY AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE FIRST KNOWN INTERSTELLAR OBJECT", Meech et al, 2017 https://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso1737/eso1737a.pdf "Non-Gravitational Acceleration in the
Trajectory of 1I/2017 U1 (ʻOumuamua)", Micheli et al, 2018 https://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso1820/eso1820a.pdf "Spin Evolution and Cometary Interpretation of the Interstellar Minor Object 1I/2017 'Oumuamua", R. Rafikov, 2018 https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06389 "Spitzer Observations of Interstellar Object 1I/`Oumuamua", Trilling et al, 2018 https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08072 "Six Strange Facts About`Oumuamua", A. Loeb, 2018 https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08832 "Could Solar Radiation Pressure Explain 'Oumuamua's Peculiar Acceleration?", Bialy and Loeb, 2018 https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11490 Cylinder Eight by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Why Harvard Scientists Think This Object Is An Alien Spacecraft
Harvard scientists think that the first interstellar object detected in our solar system, called “Oumuamua,” could be an alien spacecraft. The scientists sought to explain a quirk in Oumuamua's behavior, which led them to an unusual conclusion. No one knows what Oumuamua is or where it came from, and it's too late to find out for sure. ------------------------------------------------------ #Aliens #Space #ScienceInsider Tech Insider tells you all you need to know about tech: gadgets, how-to's, gaming, science, digital culture, and more.
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