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Episode 762: Q&A 158: Does a Titan Sample Return Mission Make Sense? And More...
In this week's live questions and answer show, I explain how astronomers measure the distance to gravitational wave events, how clean are spacecraft …
4 years, 9 months ago
Episode 761: Q&A 157: Where Will We Get the Stuff to Build in Space? And More...
In this week's Questions and Answers show, I explain how we'll get the matter to build stuff out in space, what about the matter for a Dyson Sphere? …
4 years, 9 months ago
Episode 760: Q&A 156: Are We Seeing the Same Galaxy Many Times? And More...
In this week's questions show, I explain why we don't see the same thing multiple times as we look out into the Universe, could a planet orbit in the…
4 years, 10 months ago
Episode 759: Q&A 155: Could We Build a Base on Mercury? And More...
In this week's questions show, I jump into the controversy between Blue Origin and SpaceX, explain why bigger telescopes are better, and talk about h…
4 years, 10 months ago
Episode 756: Q&A 154: How Big are Meteors? And More...
The new season has begun! We're back with an all-new series of question shows. In this week's episode, I provide a quick guide to seeing fireballs (b…
4 years, 10 months ago
Episode 757: Interview: Dr. Markus Janson, Starshades for Ground Telescopes
My guest today is Dr. Markus Janson, an astronomy professor at Stockholm University. Dr. Janson and his co-authors have recently published a study in…
4 years, 10 months ago
Episode 758: Interview: Dr. Hamsa Padmanabhan, Peering into the Cosmic Dawn
My guest today is Dr. Hamsa Padmanabhan, a cosmologist at the University of Geneva. Dr. Padmanabhan's work involves the investigation of Cosmic Dawn,…
4 years, 10 months ago
Episode 755: Q&A 153: How High Can Bacteria Survive? And More...
In the season finale of my questions show, I talk about high-altitude bacteria, traveling into the future, does it make sense to go back to Universit…
5 years ago
Episode 754: Q&A 152: Could We Detect Dyson Swarms? And More...
In this week's questions show, I explain why Dyson Spheres (and Swarms) should actually be pretty easy to detect across the Universe. If it's possibl…
5 years ago
Episode 753: Interview: Prof. Lee Cronin - Detecting the Chemistry of Life
My guest today is Professor Lee Cronin from the University of Glasgow. Dr. Cronin investigates the chemistry of life and has developed methods that c…
5 years, 1 month ago