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Episode 612: Open Space 58: First Pictures From the New Telescope, And More...
Thanks to our good friends at Oceanside Photo and Telescope, our livestreaming telescope is back online. I featured a couple of quick pics I took wit…
6 years, 6 months ago
Episode 611: Are Aliens Watching Us And How Could We Hide? With Dr. David Kipping
Once again, at the AAS Meeting in Hawaii, I got a chance to sit down with another astronomer to talk about their research. This time it was Dr. David…
6 years, 6 months ago
Episode 610: Open Space 57: Could We Terraform Earth To Make It Better? And More...
In this week's Open Space QA, I respond to complaints about my Betelgeuse video, wonder about alien civilizations stuck in heavy gravity, and conside…
6 years, 6 months ago
Episode 609: Why Haven't Aliens Settled Every Star In The Milky Way? With Adam Frank
At the American Astronomical Society's meeting Honolulu I got a chance to talk with Adam Frank about new research he's worked with Caleb Scharf, Jona…
6 years, 6 months ago
Episode 608: Q&A 112: Are Stars Moving The Same Speed And More. Featuring Ethan Siegel
This week's questions show was recorded at the 235th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Honolulu, Hawaii. I was lucky enough to have 3,5…
6 years, 6 months ago
Episode 607: Q&A 111: Will We Ever Study All The Planets? And More...
In this week's questions show I explain how we'll ever study 100 million planets, what's the business case for space exploration, and how I pull the …
6 years, 7 months ago
Episode 606: Betelgeuse Is Dimmer Than We've Ever Seen It
Over the last weekend, astronomy Twitter started noting that the red giant Betelgeuse, the prominent shoulder of Orion was looking visibly dimmer in …
6 years, 7 months ago
Episode 604: 100 Million Exoplanets By 2050? How Will We Get There?
As I’m recording this video near the end of 2019, the total number of confirmed exoplanets stands at 4,104. We’ve come a long way since the discovery…
6 years, 7 months ago
Episode 605: Open Space 56: SpaceX's Andrew Rader and "Beyond the Known"
This week I'm joined by Andrew Rader, a game designer and mission manager at SpaceX. Andrew's new book is called Beyond the Known and it's all about …
6 years, 7 months ago
Episode 603: What Is The Crisis in Cosmology? With Dr. Paul Sutter
How old is the Universe? In order to figure that out, all you have to do is figure out how quickly it’s expanding, and then the clock backward until …
6 years, 7 months ago