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That's when I got the phone call, the phone call that all solar system astronomers are waiting for.
NASA's been expecting to see an interstellar comet pass through the solar system since the 1970s, but until now, we'd never seen anything.
Our own solar system is huge, so even getting a package from the nearest star system 4.4 light years away would take over 50,000 years.
The interstellar visitor entered our solar system from above the plane of the planets, coming from the direction of the constellation Lyra, and it passed closest to the Sun on September 9th, passing inside the orbit of Mercury.
Now rather than call this by its unwieldy catalog name, we briefly called it "Rama," after the cylindrical spacecraft that passed through the solar system in Arthur C. Clarke's classic science fiction story in 1973.
Now this discovery was important for many reasons, but to me the most significant is for what 'Oumuamua can tell us about the past of our solar system.
The process of the birth of a new solar system and the growth of planets can be a violent and messy business.
Leftover icy and rocky debris gets ejected from the new solar system as the giant planets migrate through the dusty disk out of which they're formed.
We actually had a piece of material from another solar system coming close enough for us to observe.
We're also going to need to know how reflective the surface of 'Oumuamua is, and we don't have any clue, but it's reasonable to assume it's very similar to small asteroids and comets in our solar system, or in technical terms, something between the reflectivity of charcoal and wet sand.
Nothing else in our solar system looks like this.
So we don't know how this forms, but it may be part of its birth process in its home solar system.
This very energetic, excited motion is almost certainly the result of it being violently tossed out of its home solar system.
Some scientists think that maybe 'Oumuamua formed very close to a star that was much denser than our own, and the star's tidal forces shredded planetary material early in the solar system's history.
More importantly, I think this visitor from afar has really brought home the point that our solar system isn't isolated.
This unexpected gift has perhaps raised more questions than its provided answers, but we were the first to say hello to a visitor from another solar system.
And we've got to start thinking of oil and other hydrocarbons as part of these solar panels.
People come up with really smart ideas for solar panels, or for wind, or for something else, and then guess what?
He's also finding a way to reinvent solar power and the electricity industry in North America, and if he's lucky, he'll get us to Mars, hopefully in my lifetime.
About two and a half billion years ago, some of these ancient ancestors of Prochlorococcus evolved so that they could use solar energy and absorb it and split water into its component parts of oxygen and hydrogen.
Your heart is beating using the solar energy that some plant processed for you, and the stuff your body is made out of is made out of CO2 that some plant processed for you.
They can take solar energy, CO2 and turn it into chemical energy in the form of organic carbon, locking that sunlight in those carbon bonds.
PM: Installing solar panels on the top of her house, I have to say.
And so if we had an alternative approach and used wind or solar to do this, the land area would be about 15 times larger, looking at the state of New Jersey now.
It was taken by the Voyager spacecraft in 1990, when they turned it around as it was exiting the solar system to take a picture of the Earth from six billion kilometers away.
Here we are at the edge of the solar system, out at the Kuiper Belt.
Here we are out at the Oort Cloud, outside the solar system, and we're starting to see the sun move into the field of view and get into where the planet is.
That's a solar eclipse.
We're hoping it'll be someone else's solar system as seen through an occulter, through a starshade like that.
And right at the end, the solar array glints in the sun.
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