The link for Oumuamua on universe today is https://www.universetoday.com/137944...range-looking/.
The link for Oumuamua on universe today is https://www.universetoday.com/137944...range-looking/.
The visualization is better on your link. It looks like a log. Maybe its just a piece of celestial debris.Originally Posted by Dreamwoven
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"Ever since the project was first conceived, scientists have been eagerly awaiting the day that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will take to space. As the planned successor to Hubble, the JWST will use its powerful infrared imaging capabilities to study some of the most distant objects in the Universe (such as the formation of the first galaxies) and study extra-solar planets around nearby stars."
https://www.universetoday.com/137892...-itll-hunting/
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
EarthSky has a more detailed presentation of Oumuamua. See http://earthsky.org/space/1st-inters...amua-1i2017-u1. It is certainly weird and an object from beyond the solar system, from interstellar space.
Yes, indeed. And they have now classified it as an interstellar asteroid.
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
It is like a long thin sausage, very odd! There may be other wonders in interstellar space.
Pardon my irreverence, but does anyone else have this song in their head as they imagine Oumuamua flying through space... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQrQjNNZCAo
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
The astronomers probably not. But I think Oumuamua would welcome the fitting sound track.
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
I've often wondered how one of those sails heading fast to a rendezvous with a target object would slow down. The answer is not obvious, though it is good that they are beginning to consider it:
https://www.universetoday.com/137942...ecraft-enough/
https://www.universetoday.com/137954...ife-star-star/
Is this how life spread through the universe? its just a theory and the microbes that could be the means of transport are indeed tiny.
https://astronomynow.com/2017/11/20/...-mars-mission/
"NASA announced Thursday it will fund development of a scientific instrument that will fly on Japan’s Martian Moons Exploration mission, a robotic probe set for launch in 2024 to bring back the first samples from Mars’ largest moon Phobos."
There are, of course, only 2 moons circling Mars, Phobos being the larger.
"GALACTIC PANSPERMIA: INTERSTELLAR DUST COULD TRANSPORT LIFE FROM STAR TO STAR
The theory of Panspermia states that life exists through the cosmos, and is distributed between planets, stars and even galaxies by asteroids, comets, meteors and planetoids. In this respect, life began on Earth about 4 billion years ago after microorganisms hitching a ride on space rocks landed on the surface. Over the years, considerable research has been devoted towards demonstrating that the various aspects of this theory work.
The latest comes from the University of Edinburgh, where Professor Arjun Berera offers another possible method for the transport of life-bearing molecules. According to his recent study, space dust that periodically comes into contact with Earth’s atmosphere could be what brought life to our world billions of years ago. If true, this same mechanism could be responsible for the distribution of life throughout the Universe."
https://www.universetoday.com/137954...ife-star-star/
A very curious theory. Maybe the existence of almost invisible organism like mites would be a proof of the pudding. But all that remains to be proved. What we have currently is the fertile imagination of the astronomers.
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
I didn't know that the interstellar interloper Oumuamua, had already passed us by in 2017. Here is a project proposal to study such phenomena in detail:
https://www.universetoday.com/137960...ar-asteroid-1/
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