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820: Fluidic Space Telescopes with Dr. Edward Balaban
Edward Balaban is a research scientist at NASA Ames and the principal investigator of the Fluidic Telescope Experiment, or FLUTE. The idea is to crea…
4 years, 2 months ago
822: Elon Musk's Tesla in Space, Can We Get Better Rocket Fuel, Space Structures | Q&A 183
In this week's Questions and Answers show, I explain why we don't see much stuff in space unfolding in real time, how long will Musk's Tesla be a rec…
4 years, 2 months ago
821: Dealing with Lunar Regolith with Dr. Kevin Cannon
Dr. Kevin Cannon is an assistant professor of geology and geological engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. Dr. Cannon has been studying the pr…
4 years, 2 months ago
819: Schrodinger's Catch by Rocket Lab, Photon Ring of a Black Hole, Micronovae | Space Bites
Rocket Lab almost catches their Electron booster with a helicopter, China building an asteroid redirection mission, NASA gives out awards and astrono…
4 years, 2 months ago
818: Going Under the Ice with Dr. Samuel Howell
My guest today is Dr. Sam Howell, a planetary scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Sam studies the interiors of icy worlds, like Europa a…
4 years, 2 months ago
816: Collecting Micrometeorites with Scott Peterson
Every day about 100 tonnes of space dust strikes the Earth's atmosphere. Most of these space rocks vaporize, but some fall to the Earth at meteorites…
4 years, 3 months ago
817: Can JWST See The Big Bang, Can Black Holes Disappear, Cutest Nebula | Q&A 182
In this week's Questions and Answers show, I explain why James Web still can't see the Big Bang, if black holes can "unblack hole" later in life and …
4 years, 3 months ago
815: Unistellar Smart Telescope with Dr. Franck Marchis
My guest today is Dr. Franck Marchis, a senior planetary astronomer and chair of the exoplanet group at the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute a…
4 years, 3 months ago
814: Groundbreaking Event Horizon Telescope Update, OSIRIS-REx Reborn, End of SOFIA | Space Bites
NASA extended 8 space missions, EHT has groundbreaking announcements on the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, James Webb shows first images, SOFIA…
4 years, 3 months ago
812: Quasar Dust, Grabby Aliens and Who Needs von Neumann probes | Q&A 181
In this week's questions and answers show, I talk about supermassive black hole nucleosynthesis, the threat of grabby aliens and why would we ever bo…
4 years, 3 months ago