AAS #237: five things we learned
Here are the key take-outs from the 237th meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the butterfly wing - shaped nebula, NGC 2346. The nebula is about 2,000 light-years away from Earth in the direction of the constellation Monoceros. Credit: NASA/STScI
Each January, the American Astronomical Society (AAS) conducts a meeting widely hailed as the “Superbowl of astronomy”, in which astronomers gather from around the world to share their latest results.
Last year it was in Honolulu. But this year, thanks to COVID-19, it was online something that AAS had already practised for smaller meetings as far back as June 2020. Not surprisingly, given the rehearsal, they did a smash-bang job of it. But they also had a remarkable amount to present… plus a lot of fun.
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Oumuamua was first discovered on October 19, 2017, by the University of Hawaii’s Pan-STARRS1 telescope, funded by NASA’s Near-Earth Object Observations (NEOO) Program. The cigar shaped rock was recorded to be travelling at blistering speeds of 196,000 mph (87.3 kmps) and was originally classified as a comet or an asteroid.
Harvard professor says ‘discarded alien tech’ known as ‘Oumuamua’ flew past Earth in 2017
2 Jan 2021, 20:34
A HARVARD professor claims an odd space object to enter the solar system is not another rock formation but rather, evidence of intelligent life outside the earth.
Avi Loeb, Harvard’s Department of Astronomy chair, believes aliens dropped some space garbage over earth s atmosphere in 2017, and it s proof that life beyond humans exists.
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Avi Loeb said the object moved too fast to be naturally occurringCredit: Getty Images - Getty
Loeb s upcoming book, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth, lays out a case for why a recent object that flew into our solar system might be proof that life outside exists.
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