Tag: interstellar objects

Stories from Space is now on Patreon!

Stories from Space is now on Patreon!

My podcast, which I started four years ago (almost to the day), has migrated to Patreon so people can enjoy the same content, but without ads. Also, the decision was motivated in large part by my belief in public sponsorship, crowdfunding, and people power! All 111 episodes are now available here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/houseofwilliams

The latest episode, the first of season six, has also just aired. The topic is Panspermia, the theory that the basic building blocks of life are spread throughout the Universe by interstellar objects – asteroids, comets, and rogue planets – and even unbound stars and their planetary systems. This theory is supported by the recent sample-return missions that have found organic molecules and even amino acids on Near-Earth Asteroids.

The topic has become all the rage since astronomers detected an interstellar object for the first time in 2017 – 1I/’Oumuamua. Since then, two more have been detected, 2I/Borisov and 3I/ATLAS, which has provided a wealth of data on what conditions are like in other parts of our galaxy.

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Episode 49 – “Where is Everybody?” Our Interstellar Future with Prof. Avi Loeb – is now live!

Episode 49 – “Where is Everybody?” Our Interstellar Future with Prof. Avi Loeb – is now live!

This week I sat down with Israeli-American theoretical physicist Professor Avi Loeb, the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, the longest-serving Chair of the Department of Astronomy, the founder of Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative (BHI), and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He is also the founder of the Galileo Project, a public project dedicated to the investigation of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), and the Chairman of the Advisory Committee of Breakthrough Starshot.

A few years ago, Prof. Loeb became the focus of international attention when he suggested that the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua might be an extraterrestrial probe. With the release of the “UFO File” in 2021 by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Loeb and many of his colleagues launched Project Galileo to assist with the transition where UAP studies are now the subject of open scientific research rather than a clandestine affair overseen by government agencies. We touched on all these topics during our conversation. Check it out below!

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