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Blurb: “Provocative and thrilling .:. Loeb asks us to think big and to expect the unexpected."
- ALAN LIGHTMAN, New York Times best-selling author of Einstein's
- Dreams and Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
In 2017, scientists at a Hawaiian observatory glimpsed an object soaring through our solar system, moving so quickly that it could only have come from another star. Avi Loeb, Harvard's top astronomer, showed that it was not an asteroid; it moved along a strange, orbit and left no trail of gas or debris in its wake. There was only one conceivable explanation: the object was a piece of technology created by a distant alien civilization. Now with a new afterword by the author, Extraterrestrial reveals the thrilling story. of the first interstellar visitor spotted in our solar system, outlining a controversial theory with profound implications for science, religion; and the future of our species.
"Well-written and compelling."- FORBES
"Loeb makes a persuasive scientific argument about
'Oumuamua's otherworldly origins." - NEW YORK MAGAZINE
ABRAHAM (AVI) LOEB is the Frank B. Baird Ir.
Professor of Science and former chair of Harvard's Department of Astronomy. He is founding director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative, director of the Institute for Theory and Computation within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, founder of the Galileo Project, and chair of the advisory committee for the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative. He lives near Boston, Massachusetts.”