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Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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Sep 30, 2026

Michael BeckwithHOST
3:14
I don't like it when people don't activate their potential, and so we're always speaking about that at some level.
Michael BeckwithHOST
3:19
Her lifelong interest in consciousness and the mechanics of the universe led her to develop meditation methodologies and collaborate on research with scientists affiliated with institutions including Harvard Medical School, the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and Stanford University.
Michael BeckwithHOST
3:43
So she's one of the people taking woo woo to wow, the world of wonder.
Michael BeckwithHOST
3:48
In 2010, she founded the Omnium Media, creating films that bring scientific investigation to subjects often considered outside conventional inquiry.
Daniel WhitesonHOST
19:45
And so people started doing this seriously in the '70s.
Daniel WhitesonHOST
19:48
Uh, the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard and the Smithsonian started to do this with the Tillinghast Telescope, and they were surprised.
Daniel WhitesonHOST
19:55
They surveyed, like, 2,200 galaxies, and they saw that things were not smooth, right? It didn't look like galaxies were distributed randomly across the universe.
Daniel WhitesonHOST
20:04
They were clustered together into these bubbles.
speaker_2HOST
2:12
When you factor in the sheer volume of chaotic noise radiating throughout the universe, tuning into one specific rhythmic frequency from that far away, it requires, uh, just an astronomical feat of engineering.
speaker_5HOST
2:26
Which brings us to September 2026 and this massive breakthrough led by Kevin Ortiz Ceballos at the Center for Astrophysics, you know, the collaboration between Harvard and the Smithsonian.
speaker_2HOST
2:36
You're right, a really historic moment.
speaker_5HOST
2:38
Because for the very first time, astronomers detected radio signals coming directly from an exoplanet.
speaker_0NARRATOR
0:11
Scientists have detected radio signals directly from an exoplanet for the first time in history.
speaker_0NARRATOR
0:19
The International Research Team at the Center for Astrophysics, led by Kevin Ortas, was able to identify recurring radio bursts coming from a massive gas giant located approximately 63 light years away from Earth.
speaker_0NARRATOR
0:41
Scientists have confirmed that this is a natural phenomenon.
speaker_0NARRATOR
0:46
The planet is emitting a rapid pulse due to its intense magnetic field.
SouhaHOST
2:26
Scientists have detected radio signals directly from an exoplanet for the first time in history.
SouhaHOST
2:34
The International Research Team at the Center for Astrophysics, led by Kevin Ortas, was able to identify recurring radio bursts coming from a massive gas giant located approximately 63 light years away from Earth.
SouhaHOST
2:56
Scientists have confirmed that this is a natural phenomenon.
SouhaHOST
3:00
The planet is emitting a rapid pulse due to its intense magnetic field.
speaker_2NARRATOR
2:37
Scientists have detected radio signals directly from an exoplanet for the first time in history.
speaker_2NARRATOR
2:45
The international research team at the Centry-- at the Center for Astrophysics, led by Kevin Ortas, was able to identify recurring radio bursts coming from a massive gas giant located approximately sixty-three light years away from Earth.
speaker_2NARRATOR
3:07
Scientists have confirmed that this is a natural phenomena.
speaker_2NARRATOR
3:12
The planet is emitting a rapid pulse due to its intense magnetic field.
Suzanne RossGUEST
21:11
And what I would say is this, I'd say, Things come in in a variety of different forms, and I'm happy to share what some of those things are because there's such a wide variety that whatever I'm tapped into, whoever I am, there's a, you know, like all of us, we all have a purpose that we're here, right? I've been able to remote view places in the cosmos.
Suzanne RossGUEST
21:42
I've worked with a team of scientists at Harvard, the Harvard Smithsonian Observatory, and was able to basically remote view how A universe can condense and form into a new universe.
Suzanne RossGUEST
22:00
That was information that I was given between 10 and 20 years ago.
Suzanne RossGUEST
22:07
So I finally was working with a team of scientists and doing that.
Chris PlanteHOST
9:20
Oops, our, uh, Chinese-made satellite seems to have malfunctioned.
Chris PlanteHOST
9:24
On September fourth, uh, the US Space Force cataloged forty-three debris objects from the breakup of Yaogan-50, uh, according to Jonathan McDowell, former astrophysicist at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who tracks space activity.
Chris PlanteHOST
9:43
And now the pesky debris, uh, satellite fragments are currently at an altitude, uh, ranging between three hundred and seventy-two miles and six hundred and eighty-three miles.
Chris PlanteHOST
9:54
Look what the patriarchy has done.
Georgia TolleyHOST
30:40
So how worried should we be here on Earth? Well, here is space analyst Jonathan McDowell.
Georgia TolleyHOST
30:44
He's a former astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Georgia TolleyHOST
30:49
I spoke to him a little earlier.
Jonathan McDowellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
30:50
It is a huge step and a huge escalation of the militarization of space, in my opinion.

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Georgia TolleyHOST
39:14
My goodness me.
Georgia TolleyHOST
39:14
Food for thought there.
Georgia TolleyHOST
39:15
Space analyst Jonathan McDowell, former astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Georgia TolleyHOST
39:28
I've got a question for you.
Dennis StoneGUEST
39:53
You know, we just didn't have the big funds to do it all at once, so it took about four years.
Dennis StoneGUEST
39:58
And in 1977, they sent that data to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass.
Dennis StoneGUEST
40:04
And the result was they said, well, if your stones were used for astronomical purposes, they would work about 1800 BC plus or minus, about two centuries.
Dennis StoneGUEST
40:12
And that kind of agrees with the oldest carbon dating on the main site of 4,000 years old.

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