{"id":12483,"date":"2023-05-04T16:20:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T21:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/?p=12483"},"modified":"2023-05-04T16:20:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T21:20:04","slug":"oumuamua-extraterrestrial-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/oumuamua-extraterrestrial-object\/","title":{"rendered":"Space object that entered solar system in 2017 was ‘alien junk’, claims Harvard professor","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

The interstellar object that entered the Solar System in 2017 can be a sign of alien life, according to a Harvard professor.<\/p>\n

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Abraham “Avi” Loeb is an Israeli-American theoretical physicist who works on astrophysics and cosmology. Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. \u00a9 Havard.edu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Professor Avi Loeb<\/a> is talking about the space object named 1I\/2017 U1 \u2018Oumuamua<\/a>\u2019 by NASA. He claims that it is space junk sent to us by aliens.<\/p>\n

In his upcoming book Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth<\/em><\/a>, he says just that.<\/p>\n

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An illustration of ‘Oumuamua, the unknown space object that entered our solar system in 2017. Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to the Businessinsider report<\/a>, in the book-cover blurb, Anne Wojcicki<\/a>, CEO and co-founder of 23andMe, wrote that Loeb’s new book “convinces you that scientific curiosity is key to our future success.”<\/p>\n

“An exciting and eloquent case that we might have seen a sign of intelligent life near Earth – and that we should search further,”<\/em> Businessinsider quoted Wojcicki as saying.<\/p>\n

‘Oumuamua is the first interstellar object to enter the Solar System and was discovered on October 19, 2017 by the University of Hawaii\u2019s Pan-STARRS1<\/a> telescope.<\/p>\n

Initially, it was considered a comet but soon studies showed that it did not have properties usually seen in comets.<\/p>\n

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Illustration of ‘Oumuamua \u00a9 Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NASA observed that it had been wandering through the Milky Way galaxy. Describing the object, NASA said that its elongated shape is quite surprising, and unlike objects seen in the solar system and that it may provide new clues into how other solar systems formed.<\/p>\n

It further said that the interstellar interloper appeared to be a rocky, cigar-shaped object with a slight reddish hue. ‘Oumuamua measures up to 400 meters long and highly-elongated, which NASA estimates is perhaps ten times as long as it is wide.<\/p>\n

Loeb feels the best way to look for\u00a0alien life\u00a0is to look for their garbage so to speak. He believes this asteroid or comet or whatever the object is, is actually alien trash.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The interstellar object that entered the Solar System in 2017 can be a sign of alien life, according to a Harvard professor. Professor Avi Loeb is talking about the space object named 1I\/2017 U1 \u2018Oumuamua\u2019 by NASA. He claims that it is space junk sent to us by aliens. In his upcoming book Extraterrestrial: The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":1,"featured_media":12484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,8,5],"tags":[114,147],"blocksy_meta":[],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}