Abraham Loeb
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Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 2012 Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award, American Astronomical Society" Abraham Loeb is professor of astronomy and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at Harvard University.
A concise introduction to cosmology and how light first emerged in the universe
Though astrophysicists have developed a theoretical framework for understanding how the first stars and galaxies formed, only now are we able to begin testing those...
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Language
English
Description
"Harvard's top astronomer lays out his controversial theory that our solar system was recently visited by advanced alien technology from a distant star"--
In late 2017 scientists at a Hawaiian observatory glimpsed an object soaring through our inner solar system, moving so quickly that it could only have come from another star. Loeb showed it was not an asteroid; it was moving too fast along a strange orbit, and left no trail of gas or debris in...
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Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"En octubre de 2017, científicos del observatorio Haleakala, en Hawái, detectaron un objeto interestelar en movimiento próximo a la Tierra. Primero fue catalogado como cometa y finalmente como asteroide, si bien su forma y su comportamiento diferían del resto de los cometas y asteroides de nuestro sistema solar. Cuanto más lo observaban los científicos, más extraño les parecía. Cuando Avi Loeb, catedrático de Astrofísica de la Universidad...