Weekly Space Hangout: Nov 7, 2018 – Colin Stuart ‘s “How to Live in Space”
Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier )…
We Could Build a Powerful Laser and Let Any Civilizations Within 20,000 Light-Years Know We’re Here. Although… Should We?
A powerful laser is just the thing to announce our presence as a technological species in this arm of the…
This Star Killed its Companion and is now Escaping the Milky Way
Our universe is capable of some truly frightening scenarios, and in this case we have an apparent tragedy: two stars,…
Astronomers Get as Close as They Can to Seeing the Black Hole at the Heart of the Milky Way
Thanks to the GRAVITY collaboration, astronomers have made the most detailed observations of the black hole at the center of…
Planetary Scientists Have Chosen a Few Landing Sites for the Mars 2020 Rover
At the fourth Landing Site Workshop in October, NASA held a vote on where the Mars 2020 rover will land…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 504: Radar, Lidar, and Sonar
To really study something, you want to reach out and touch it. But what can you do if you're separated…
An Extremely Large Hole has Been Dug for the Extremely Large Telescope
The ESO has broken ground on the Extremely Large Telescope, which will be the world's largest and most-advanced telescope once…
Timelapse Shows the Glowing Wreckage from Supernova 1987a Expanding Outward Over 30 Years
Supernovae are the granddaddies of all cosmic light shows, and Supernova 1987a is one of the most studied objects in…
Weekly Space Hangout: Oct 31, 2018 – David Dickinson
Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier )…
It’s Over For Kepler. The Most Successful Planet Hunter Ever Built is Finally out of Fuel and Has Just Been Shut Down.
After eight years of service and thousands of exoplanet discoveries, the Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel and…