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813: Weird Orbits and How They Work with Dr. Renu Malhotra
My guest today is Dr. Renu Malhotra, a planetary scientist who specializes in planetary migration and orbital mechanics. Dr. Malhotra and her team ha…
4 years, 3 months ago
811: Mission to Uranus, More SLS Problems, Ban for Anti-Satellite Tests | Space Bites e2
Planetary Science Decadal Survey recommends a mission to Uranus, SLS is set for another delay, Perseverance sees a Phobos solar eclipse, all Hubble's…
4 years, 3 months ago
810: Detecting Primordial Black Holes with Celeste Keith
My guest today is Celeste Keith, a graduate student at the University of Chicago. Celeste and her team are searching for ways to detect the presence …
4 years, 3 months ago
809: Turning the Sun Into a Giant Telescope with Dr. Slava Turyshev
My guest today is Dr. Slava Turyshev, a physicist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He helped to solve the Pioneer Anomaly, and is developing a …
4 years, 3 months ago
808: SOFIA the Flying Telescope with Dr. Margaret Meixner
My guest today is Dr. Margaret Meixner, the Director of Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) Science Mission Operations. Previous…
4 years, 3 months ago
807: True Shape of the Universe, Asteroid Mining, Alien Astronomers | Q&A 180
In this week's live Questions and Answers show, I provide the exact number of alien worlds that could detect the Earth, are we made of heavier elemen…
4 years, 3 months ago
806: $500 000 for Moon Dust, Boson Breaking Physics, New Approach to Space Tourism | News Digest e1
Perseverance found its parachute, JWST cooling down its experiments, Standard Model once again in danger, Space Force releasing data to scientists, y…
4 years, 3 months ago
805: W Boson Breaking the Standard Model with Dr. Paul Sutter
Particle physicists have announced an exciting discovery about the W Boson particle that challenges the Standard Model of Physics. To help me underst…
4 years, 3 months ago
804: What Is Dark Matter Made Of with Dr. Surjeet Rajendran
My guest today is Dr. Surjeet Rajendran, a physics professor at Johns Hopkins University. In addition to his teaching, Dr. Rajendran's research is in…
4 years, 3 months ago
803: ILLEGAL Moon Residents, Space Power Plants, Center of the Universe | Q&A 179
In this week's questions show, I explain how other planets can have geostationary orbits, if sending tardigrades to the Moon is a violation of the Ou…
4 years, 3 months ago