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Episode 763: The Enceladus Vent Explorer: An interview with Dr. Hiro Ono
My guest today is Dr. Hiro Ono, the Group Leader of the Robotic Surface Mobility Group for NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. Dr. Ono is been awarded a NIAC …
4 years, 11 months ago
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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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…
5 years 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…
5 years 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…
5 years 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,…
5 years 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, 2 months 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, 2 months ago