Public Outreach
Selected media coverage
- See TEDx talk about VASCO
- Wall Street Journal, 2023, https://www.wsj.com/
articles/will-powerful-new- tools-finallylet-us-hear- alien-civilizations-e5f38ff2? mod=hp_featst_pos4 - John Godier’s Event Horizon “Not of this Earth”, https://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=MsV9wI4J2ic - Sydsvenskan (Swedish), https://www.
sydsvenskan.se/2023-05-04/det- finns-redan-tillrackligt- mycket-data-for-att-visa-att- ufon-ar-verkliga - Scandinavian Minds (podcast), 2023, https://
scandinavianmind.com/podcast/ women-in-science-kathlen-kohn- beatriz-villarroel-nina-wormbs - A New Era of Optical SETI, 2023, The Debrief, https://thedebrief.
org/a-new-era-of-optical-seti- the-search-for-artificial- objects-of-non-human-origin/ - Rising talents award to Nordita researchers”, Stockholm University, 2022
- Vanishing stars’ citizen-science project opens the skies to the public” (in space.com 2022)
- Sveriges Unga Akademi on B. Villarroel’s Rising Talents prize 2022
- The search for non-terrestrial artifacts, podcast with Micah Hanks 2022.
- Beatriz Villarroel, astrofisica: << Objectos que desaparecen del cielo pueden ser restos de otra civilización” 2022
- Beatriz Villarroel: “Nos tomamos muy en serio la posibilidad de buscar a ET (Diario de Avisos) 2022
- Švedų astrofizikė apie naršymą po istorinį dangų ir neįtikėtinus radinius – jiems paaiškinti neatmetamos net pačios beprotiškiausios teorijos (Interview with B. Villarroel on the International Rising Talents prize 2022)
- Evidence of non-terrestrial objects surveilling Earth could be revealed in new research effort, The Debrief. 2022.
- Lurker, probes and disappearing stars, Centuri Dreams, 2022
- Beatriz Villarroel is awarded the L’Oreal-UNESCO prize for Women in Science (International Rising Talents, 2022)
- Sleuthing through history for alien artifacts. SuperCosmos. 2022.
- 9 weird transients from 1950 still unexplained. Earth & Sky. 2021.
- Forschende schlagen Suche nach außerirdischen Artefakten auf geosynchronen Umlaufbahnen vor (GreWi.de, 22 Nov. 2021)
- Astronomen untersuchen 9 „verschwundene Sterne“ (GreWi.de, 21 July, 2021)
- Some of the Universe’s stars have gone missing. Space.com.
- Over 700 Stars Mysteriously Vanished in the Last 70 years, But Why? Anton Petrov.
- 9 Grouped Anomalies Appeared then Disappeared on a Star Survey in 1950 with Dr. Beatriz Villarroel. John Godier’s Event Horizon. 2021.
- Rymdforskaren Beatriz får utmärkelse av FN. Expressen (Swedish)
- L’Oreal-UNESCO prize 2021 (Sveriges Unga Akademi)
- För Beatriz går musiken och forskningen hand i hand. Tidningen Curie (Swedish)
- Are stars disappearing? John Godier’s Event Horizon. 2021.
- A hundred stars have disappeared—and researchers aren’t ruling out aliens. Popular Science, 2019.
- A Stellar Mystery: How Could 100 Stars Just Vanish? Air & Space magazine. 2019.
- El misterio de las 100 luces rojas que aparecieron y se desvanecieron del cielo en los 60 y 80’s. Voz Populi 2019 (Español)
- Episode 41 – The Vanishing Sources with Beatriz Villarroel. Wow! Signal Podcast (2019)
- Jakten efter försvunna stjärnor. Forskning & Framsteg. 2018.
- TEDx talk Erik Zackrisson. 2018.
- Stars are vanishing. The reasons why could reveal clues about alien life. Wired. 2017.
- Impossible vanishing stars could be signs of advanced alien life. New Scientist. 2017.
- Researchers Have Identified 100 Mysteriously Disappeared Stars in The Night Sky. Science alert. 2017.
- Breakthrough Discuss Conference Closes with Full Day Dedicated to Newly Discovered Exoplanets and SETI. Astrobiology. 2017.
- Burst 19 – Our Sky Now and Then. Wow! Signal Podcast. 2016.
- Morgonsoffan. Swedish television, TV4.
- SETI Through Disappearing Stars. John Godier’s Event Horizon. 2016.