Extraterrestrial. Humanity before the first sign of intelligent life beyond Earth
Publisher: Editorial Planeta
Subject: Science | Astronomy
Science | Cosmology
Science | Divulgation
Science | Scientific Research
Collection: Non Fiction
Translator: Àlex Guàrdia Berdiell
Number of pages: 256
Synopsis of Extraterrestrial:
THE BOOK THAT WILL CHANGE THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE FOREVER
Avi Loeb, the Harvard Astrophysics professor who claims to have found the first evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial life
In October 2017, scientists at the Haleakala Observatory in Hawaii detected a moving interstellar object close to Earth. It was first labeled a comet, but this hypothesis was discarded.
Named Oumuamua, Hawaiian for "messenger" or "explorer," it was eventually labeled an asteroid, although its shape and behavior differed from the rest of the asteroids and comets in our solar system. The more scientists observed it, the stranger it seemed to them. When Harvard Professor of Astronomy Avi Loeb suggested that Oumuamua was evidence of extraterrestrial life and technology in space, it sparked what is probably the most relevant scientific debate in decades.
In this book, Loeb presents his theory to the general public for the first time and offers us a fascinating journey through the universe from the origins of time, space and life.
THE BOOK THAT WILL CHANGE THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE FOREVER
Avi Loebl, the Harvard Astrophysics Professor who claims to have found the first evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial life
Avi Loeb
Avi Loeb is Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University, founder and director of the Harvard Black Hole Initiative, and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He serves on the advisory board of the Starshot Project, is Director of Science for the Breakthrough Prize Foundation and a Fellow of the Academy of Physics and Astronomy. He is a member of the American Academics of Arts & Science, the American Physical Society and the International Academy of Astronautics.
He has published four scholarly books and 700 scientific publications on the birth of stars, black holes, the future of the universe and the search for extraterrestrial life. In 2012, Time magazine selected him as one of the most influential people on space.
BOOK DETAILS
- Publication date: February 2021
- ISBN: 978-84-08-23778-5
- Presentation: Hardcover with dust jacket
