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StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries – Life on Other Planets with Aomawa Shields

StarTalk Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2023 47:50


If scientists discovered that we are not alone, what would they do with that information? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice learn about the search for life, habitability around M stars and more with astrophysics professor and author Aomawa Shields. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://startalkmedia.com/show/cosmic-queries-life-on-other-planets-with-aomawa-shields/Thanks to our Patrons Pepper Horton, annie brown, Lance Cardwell, Natalie waugh, firestorm960, and Daryl Spencerfor supporting us this week.Photo Credit: Original ESO/M. Kornmesser  (+ background position from original change by Nagualdesign), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries – Discovering Exoplanets with Gáspár Bakos

StarTalk Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2023 52:30


How do we discover more exoplanets? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Matt Kirshen explore telescopes, exoplanets, and more with professor of astrophysics and Principal Investigator of HATNet Exoplanet Survey, Gáspár Bakos. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://startalkmedia.com/show/cosmic-queries-discovering-exoplanets-with-gaspar-bakos/Thanks to our Patrons Thakiddv2, Aiden, Randy Spaulding, Jon Schwalbach, Mark, and Nicolay Doytchev for supporting us this week.Photo Credit: Juliancolton, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Damon's Brave New World- A Science Fiction Odyssey
Celestial Cousins on a nearby Exoplanet?

Damon's Brave New World- A Science Fiction Odyssey

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2023 2:44


Could there be an alien super race that is not so alien to us. Listen in on the fascinating story about a bipedal species that is cousin to Neanderthal and Sapien To learn more google us at Damon's Brave New World and follow us on your favorite social media.

Astro arXiv | all categories
Concept of an achromatic stellar coronagraph and its application for detecting extrasolar planets

Astro arXiv | all categories

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2022 0:44


Concept of an achromatic stellar coronagraph and its application for detecting extrasolar planets by Bhavesh Jaiswal. on Tuesday 29 November Imaging the planets that orbit around other stars requires blocking the host star which is usually 8-10 orders of magnitude brighter than the planets. This is achieved with the help of a stellar coronagraph. In the current work, a concept of a new type of stellar coronagraph is introduced where the star light is blocked by a linear polarizer in the collimated beam. It is based on differential rotation between the linear polarization state of planet light and that of star light. This is achieved with the help of a set of thick birefringent crystals in the collimated beam of a telescope where the planet light is made to travel extra optical path length compared to star light. By adjusting the orientation and thickness of the crystal, the optical path length can be made to cause a phase difference of {pi}, just enough to rotate the initial plane of polarization by 90{deg} for planet-light without affecting the star light. Theoretical calculations involving the phase difference due to birefringent crystals are presented here along with the basic configuration and design. It is shown that the design blocks the star light identically at all wavelengths. Application of this concept for detecting Earth-like extrasolar planet is discussed using a one-meter class telescope. arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.14624v1

Astro arXiv | all categories
Concept of an achromatic stellar coronagraph and its application for detecting extrasolar planets

Astro arXiv | all categories

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2022 0:44


Concept of an achromatic stellar coronagraph and its application for detecting extrasolar planets by Bhavesh Jaiswal. on Monday 28 November Imaging the planets that orbit around other stars requires blocking the host star which is usually 8-10 orders of magnitude brighter than the planets. This is achieved with the help of a stellar coronagraph. In the current work, a concept of a new type of stellar coronagraph is introduced where the star light is blocked by a linear polarizer in the collimated beam. It is based on differential rotation between the linear polarization state of planet light and that of star light. This is achieved with the help of a set of thick birefringent crystals in the collimated beam of a telescope where the planet light is made to travel extra optical path length compared to star light. By adjusting the orientation and thickness of the crystal, the optical path length can be made to cause a phase difference of {pi}, just enough to rotate the initial plane of polarization by 90{deg} for planet-light without affecting the star light. Theoretical calculations involving the phase difference due to birefringent crystals are presented here along with the basic configuration and design. It is shown that the design blocks the star light identically at all wavelengths. Application of this concept for detecting Earth-like extrasolar planet is discussed using a one-meter class telescope. arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.14624v1

Star Stuff
‘Oumuamua: The Extrasolar Asteroid… Or Alien Craft

Star Stuff

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2022 59:49


In this Episode of Star Stuff, Cody and Hailey chat with astrophysicist and returning guest Dr. Martin Elvis about ‘Oumuamua, an interstellar object with unknown origins. Is it a space […] The post ‘Oumuamua: The Extrasolar Asteroid… Or Alien Craft appeared first on Lowell Observatory.

Damon's Brave New World- A Science Fiction Odyssey

Learn about one of the many diverse extrasolar planets there are in The Milky Way Galaxy To learn more, goggle us at Damon's Brave New World and follow us on the Social Platform of your choice.

ITSPmagazine | Technology. Cybersecurity. Society
Extrasolar Planets Everywhere! | Stories From Space Podcast With Matthew S Williams

ITSPmagazine | Technology. Cybersecurity. Society

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2022 25:16


The field of exoplanet studies has exploded in recent decades, going from a few dozen confirmed to more than five thousand.With next-generation telescopes like James Webb, astronomers anticipate that the exoplanet census will reach the tens of thousands in a few years' time. They even anticipate finding the first evidence of extraterrestrial life!_______________________Guests _______________________HostMatthew S WilliamsOn ITSPmagazine  

Stories From Space
Extrasolar Planets Everywhere! | Stories From Space Podcast With Matthew S Williams

Stories From Space

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2022 25:16


The field of exoplanet studies has exploded in recent decades, going from a few dozen confirmed to more than five thousand.With next-generation telescopes like James Webb, astronomers anticipate that the exoplanet census will reach the tens of thousands in a few years' time. They even anticipate finding the first evidence of extraterrestrial life!_______________________Guests _______________________HostMatthew S WilliamsOn ITSPmagazine  

Astro arXiv | all categories
A direct N-body integrator for modelling the chaotic, tidal dynamics of multi-body extrasolar systems: TIDYMESS

Astro arXiv | all categories

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2022 1:07


A direct N-body integrator for modelling the chaotic, tidal dynamics of multi-body extrasolar systems: TIDYMESS by Tjarda C. N. Boekholt et al. on Sunday 11 September Tidal dissipation plays an important role in the dynamical evolution of moons, planets, stars and compact remnants. The interesting complexity originates from the interplay between the internal structure and external tidal forcing. Recent and upcoming observing missions of exoplanets and stars in the Galaxy help to provide constraints on the physics of tidal dissipation. It is timely to develop new N-body codes, which allow for experimentation with various tidal models and numerical implementations. We present the open-source N-body code TIDYMESS, which stands for ``TIdal DYnamics of Multi-body ExtraSolar Systems''. This code implements a creep deformation law for the bodies, parametrized by their fluid Love numbers and fluid relaxation times. Due to tidal and centrifugal deformations, we approximate the general shape of a body to be an ellipsoid. We calculate the associated gravitational field to quadruple order, from which we derive the gravitational accelerations and torques. The equations of motion for the orbits, spins and deformations are integrated directly using a fourth-order integration method based on a symplectic composition. We implement a novel integration method for the deformations, which allows for a time step solely dependent on the orbits, and not on the spin periods or fluid relaxation times. This feature greatly speeds up the calculations, while also improving the consistency when comparing different tidal regimes. We demonstrate the capabilities and performance of TIDYMESS, particularly in the niche regime of parameter space where orbits are chaotic and tides become non-linear. arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.03955v1

Astro arXiv | all categories
A direct N-body integrator for modelling the chaotic, tidal dynamics of multi-body extrasolar systems: TIDYMESS

Astro arXiv | all categories

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2022 1:00


A direct N-body integrator for modelling the chaotic, tidal dynamics of multi-body extrasolar systems: TIDYMESS by Tjarda C. N. Boekholt et al. on Sunday 11 September Tidal dissipation plays an important role in the dynamical evolution of moons, planets, stars and compact remnants. The interesting complexity originates from the interplay between the internal structure and external tidal forcing. Recent and upcoming observing missions of exoplanets and stars in the Galaxy help to provide constraints on the physics of tidal dissipation. It is timely to develop new N-body codes, which allow for experimentation with various tidal models and numerical implementations. We present the open-source N-body code TIDYMESS, which stands for ``TIdal DYnamics of Multi-body ExtraSolar Systems''. This code implements a creep deformation law for the bodies, parametrized by their fluid Love numbers and fluid relaxation times. Due to tidal and centrifugal deformations, we approximate the general shape of a body to be an ellipsoid. We calculate the associated gravitational field to quadruple order, from which we derive the gravitational accelerations and torques. The equations of motion for the orbits, spins and deformations are integrated directly using a fourth-order integration method based on a symplectic composition. We implement a novel integration method for the deformations, which allows for a time step solely dependent on the orbits, and not on the spin periods or fluid relaxation times. This feature greatly speeds up the calculations, while also improving the consistency when comparing different tidal regimes. We demonstrate the capabilities and performance of TIDYMESS, particularly in the niche regime of parameter space where orbits are chaotic and tides become non-linear. arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.03955v1

With No Due Respect
With No Due Respect S04E11 (Lunar expeditions, extrasolar planets & student loans)

With No Due Respect

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2022


 Lots to cover this week.  We're going to the moon!...again.  We discuss the Artemis missions along with the recent extrasolar planetary findings.  Then, we resolve the student loan relief debate.  Del has an accident in his pants, Spike Lee cosplays as the Cookie Crisp Burglar, and so much more.With No Due Respect S04E11 (Lunar expeditions, extrasolar planets & student loans)SHOW NOTES:The GOAT: Serena Williams at the U.S. Open 2022Spike Lee at the US Open 2022Cookie Crisp BurglarMegan RapinoeBillie Jean King at the US Open 2022Artemis 1"Moonraker"  077George LazenbyDiana Rigg in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"KuatoStartrek Ship YardJames Webb Exoplanet Images    Super Mario GalaxyHubble image of stars Proxima Centauri A&BProxima Centauri B soundshttps://youtu.be/qUq2d6vgAxsLuvoir telescope

People Behind the Science Podcast - Stories from Scientists about Science, Life, Research, and Science Careers
664: Out of This World Research on Extrasolar Planets - Dr. Shawn Domagal-Goldman

People Behind the Science Podcast - Stories from Scientists about Science, Life, Research, and Science Careers

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2022 50:35


Dr. Shawn Domagal-Goldman is a Research Space Scientist with NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center. Shawn spends his days looking for ways to detect signs of alien life. He uses a wide variety of techniques, including mass spectrometers to measure the ratios of isotopes on the surface of Mars or spectrographs to measure the abundance of planetary gases. He spends a lot of his free time being a parent to his 16 month old daughter. When he's not spending quality time with his family, Shawn also likes to play basketball, water polo, and video games, as well as blog. Shawn received his Masters Degree in Earth Sciences from the University of Rochester and his PhD in Astrobiology and Geosciences from the Pennsylvania State University. Shawn previously worked as a Research Associate at Penn State, a Research Associate in the Virtual Planetary Laboratory at the University of Washington, and also served as the NASA Astrobiology Management Postdoctoral Fellow before accepting his current position. In this interview, Shawn shares more about his life and science.

The UncD Fiasco
186: Alone?

The UncD Fiasco

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2022 35:44


Extrasolar life, and the chemistry of the universe and early Earth. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The 365 Days of Astronomy, the daily podcast of the International Year of Astronomy 2009

http://www.astronomycast.com/archive/ From February 2, 2009. Pamela is hosting today with Dr. Chris Lintott! Dreaming up new planets is a favourite pastime of science fiction writers, but the universe often has them beat – coming with planets in place and forms that we had quite thought to imagine. Today we know of 228 planets orbiting alien stars, and in this episode we will look at the diversity of these worlds, from Mushy Lava covered planets to Icy Giants to the hottest of hot Jupiters.   We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too! Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://astrogear.spreadshirt.com/ for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by Astrosphere New Media. http://www.astrosphere.org/ Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.

Universo de Misterios
034 - El misterioso objeto extrasolar 'Oumuamua: la Verdad, toda la Verdad y nada más que la Verdad - Episodio exclusivo para mecenas

Universo de Misterios

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2021 53:58


Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! El primer objeto de procedencia extra solar detectado en la historia ha llegado cargado de misterio . Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Creation.com Talk Podcast
Are Extrasolar Planets a Problem for the Bible?

Creation.com Talk Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2021 17:26


Planets around other stars? Are they real and how do we know? Is there life on them? With all those planets and such a huge universe, why should God care so much about Earth? This episode features Gary Bates and Dr Jonathan Sarfati. Creation.com Talk is produced by Joseph Darnell out of the CMI-USA studios. Become a monthly contributor at our site. You can also help out by telling your family and friends to check out Creation Talk. Helpful Resources Alien Intrusion Book and Movie pack (DVD) The Genesis Academy Astronomy Vol. 1: Our Created Universe Links and Show Notes Alien Intrusion: Unmasking the Deception Alien Intrusion interview series Planets around other stars Extrasolar planets suggest our solar system is unique and young Did God create life on other planets? Solar system origin: Nebular hypothesis Why would God bother with a tiny planet like Earth? Ultracool Trappist-1 and its seven planets Trappist planets not in habitable zone Superflares and the origin of life on Earth FOLLOW US (if you want) ► Facebook ► Twitter ► Instagram ► Our site Thanks for watching Creation.com Talk!

The 365 Days of Astronomy, the daily podcast of the International Year of Astronomy 2009

Extrasolar planet research is a hot topic in astronomy. Astronomers are continually trying to build new instruments to measure the properties of planets orbiting other stars. One new instrument is called MAROON-X on the Gemini North Telescope in Hawai’i. In this podcast, Dr. Jacob Bean (University of Chicago), the Principal Investigator of MAROON-X, describes the instrument, its capabilities and the first results from its observations.   Bio: Rob Sparks is in the Communications, Education and Engagement group at NSF’s NOIRLab. Robert Nikutta is a staff scientist at NSF’s NOIRLab. He is currently the Project Scientist for the Astro Data Lab science platform.   https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2110/ https://www.gemini.edu/instrumentation/maroon-x https://astro.uchicago.edu/research/maroon-x.php https://www.mpia.de/news/science/2021-05-gliese486b NOIRLab social media channels can be found at: https://www.facebook.com/NOIRLabAstro https://twitter.com/NOIRLabAstro https://www.instagram.com/noirlabastro/ https://www.youtube.com/noirlabastro   We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too! Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://astrogear.spreadshirt.com/ for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by Astrosphere New Media. http://www.astrosphere.org/ Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.

Universo de Misterios
213 - El enigmático objeto extrasolar 1I/ 'Oumuamua, con Héctor Socas... Y el nuevo ciclo solar

Universo de Misterios

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2021 99:56


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Equinox
36: Extrasolar Planets

Equinox

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2020 65:39


How do they detect planets orbiting far-away stars? Is that even a real thing? Yes it is true, and there are two main methods for finding them: doppler shift and periodic changes in light intensity. To date, thousands of extrasolar planets have been detected. But what does this mean for the possibility of life in outer space? Actually, very little, for most stars are inhospitable to life in general. Joe and Rob wrap up with a discussion on theology and how a Christian can make sense of the new discoveries.

No Disclosure
S3E42-New Gear, Coronavirus, Kentucky, Extrasolar Planets, Turtle Derby and the Powerball

No Disclosure

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2020 39:30


Why is it that only old people seem to win the lottery and what are the odds of winning twice in one day? Has a new planet been found that is bigger than your anu . . . I mean Jupiter? These questions and a few others will be answered in this episode of No Disclosure. The fanciest podcast on the internet. I'm gonna go place my bets on a turtle for the Kentucky Derby. Listen. And find out why. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/billie-dean-shoemate-iii/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/billie-dean-shoemate-iii/support

Universo de Misterios
137 - NotCom: La Misteriosa Composición del Cometa Extrasolar Borisov

Universo de Misterios

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2020 35:43


320 TyV NorCom. El pasado 30 de agosto de 2019 un astrónomo aficionado descubrió el que se ha convertido en el primer cometa procedente de fuera de nuestro sistema solar. Este pasado 21 de abril de 2020, BBC News titulaba la noticia: "La misteriosa composición del primer cometa que nos visita desde otro sistema solar". ¿Quieres saber por qué?

SONGMESS
Ep. 195 - Frikstailers

SONGMESS

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2020 81:42


En este episodio muy especial de Songmess nos acompaña el duo dinámico del folclor digital Argentino, Frikstailers! Sentados con Rafa y Lisandro, - las enormes personalidades detrás de los lentes y pelucas que Frikstailers usan en sus presentaciones en vivo - nuestra plática aborda la historia de la banda, sonidos regionales Argentinos, la era dorada de las fiestas de Zizek y las inspiraciones y temáticas de su más reciente disco Extrasolar. El playlist de hoy está hecho para bailar, así que déjense llevar por estos deliciosos ritmos globales. Playlist Frikstailers + Mateo Kingman, Klick & Frik, Andrés Oddone + El Buho, Cerrero + Lucia Pulido, Oxhalá, DJ Paparazzi y La Yegros. Frikstailers Bandcamp: https://frikstailers.bandcamp.com/ Frikstailers Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3kGiP6mQDtEZG5UD7mAlBH?si=BNsCHailSayw7ykNa7XmwA Frikstailers Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frikstailers/ Frikstailers Twitter: https://twitter.com/FRIKSTAILERS Frikstailers Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frikstailers/?hl=en Richard Villegas Instagram: www.instagram.com/rixinyc/?hl=en Songmess Instagram: www.instagram.com/songmess/?hl=es-la Songmess Facebook: www.facebook.com/songmess/?ref=settings Songmess Twitter: twitter.com/songmessmusic Songmess Merch: https://songmess.threadless.com/ #BOPS Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2sdavi01h3AA5531D4fhGB?si=T9PuRN8jSXqQYPFyDJCOiQ Subscribe to Songmess on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play or SoundCloud, find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and contact us at songmessmusic@gmail.com.

Topic Lords
The Entire Weirdness Of Plants

Topic Lords

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2019 62:43


Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Erica talks about birds and plants on Twitter at @YerrikTRB and wants you to listen to the Frog Fractions 2 soundtrack. https://ryanike.bandcamp.com/album/frog-fractions-2-original-soundtrack * Justin talks about puzzles on Twitter at @firetrucknpl Topics: * 2:34 Children are terrifying. * 8:41 The Frog Fractions ARG, culminating in its Christmas release * The FF2 ARG on the Game Detectives wiki. https://wiki.gamedetectives.net/index.php?title=FrogFractions2 * Befunge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befunge * 22:02 Bringing interesting puzzles to people with boring jobs. * Reading with Rover. https://www.readingwithrover.org/ * 28:00 Paraphrased asks: "What were you doing before you're doing what you are now?" * 41:38 Weird Christmas / holiday foods. * Traditional Lithualian Christmas Eve dinner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%AB%C4%8Dios * Lithuanian Christmas Eve recipes. http://www.maskoliunasfamilyproject.com/christmas-eve-recipes-and-others/ * Vinegretas. https://www.receptai.lt/receptas/burokeliu-salotos-su-pupelemis-1455 * Yule Sandwich Log. http://www.midcenturymenu.com/2011/01/the-mid-century-menuyule-sandwich-log/ * 52:37 Weird Christmas / holiday birds. * Passenger Pigeon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passengerpigeon * 54:12 Incorrect plant genera in video games. * Plants of Star Trek. https://twitter.com/search?q=%23plantsofstartrek * Birds of Google Maps. https://twitter.com/search?q=%23birdsofgooglemaps * Columnar cacti. https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=%23columnarcacti&src=typd * Flora of the Colorado Plateau. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FloraoftheColoradoPlateauandCanyonlandsregion * Hecho cactus. https://imgur.com/gallery/kVXqnhR * Organ pipe cactus. https://www.nps.gov/articles/organ-pipe-cactus.htm * Cardon, the world's largest cactus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnWeiSi9s2w * The black bars on the left of the screen in Atari 2600 games ("hmove lines") are caused by repositioning sprites in the middle of drawing the frame. http://www.ataricompendium.com/faq/faq.html#general18 * Extrasolar. https://extrasolar.com/ Microtopics: * People who celebrate Christmas on January 6th. * Addressing the least-served Christmas demographic. * Muting your mutuals because it turns out you have no common interests. * Not being sure if the Frog Fractions 2 Soundtrack liner notes exist any more. * Your three year old opening all the Advent Calendar doors and hiding the chocolates in his Halloween bag. * Your three year old pushing chairs from the kitchen to climb on top of the refrigerator because that's where you keep the cookies. * Developing problem-solving skills long before you develop a sense of ethics or self-preservation. * Your two year old deciding it's time to be a cool pirate and picking the biggest sword possible out of the kitchen knives. * Taking comfort in only half of prehistoric children dying before the age of five, so with modern medicine and safety advances your child has a pretty decent shot. * Half of all children dying before the age of five so they never amass the numbers needed to overthrow the adults. * Your one year old overcoming the child safety lock by ripping the entire door off. * Half your age plus seven being your personal cutoff for when someone stops being a child. * 18 year olds being allowed to vote and drive and get married. * Teenagers having infinite energy to learn and get things done, but no judgement for what are good things to learn or do. * Describing your relationship with your high school student as a jockey/horse scenario but not being sure if he's the horse and you're the jockey, or vice-versa. * Placing bets on the three-legged toddler races. * Taking bets on high school track events being illegal, so that's why a Silicon Valley startup has to do it. * Cleverly tying your collective bragging to the holiday season. * Writing a book about the Frog Fractions 2 ARG and hiding it inside of another book. * Making a GameFAQs-style guide to document how the game works while it's still in your head. * Your Skype work partner probably not looking at the screen, but maybe they are, maybe they know you're not working. * Teaching people to read by having them read to dogs because dogs are uncritical and just love the attention. * Skyping with a dog all day to motivate you to write your book. * Having a friend come onto the show and do a dog voice because real dogs pick terrible topics. * GameFAQs turning out to actually have standards. * GameFAQs rejecting your submission with the rejection note just saying "Boxing." * GameFAQs rejecting your submission with a subtle joke about the previous game in the series. * Actual FAQs being pretty rare on GameFAQs. * Writing an angry letter to the New York Times about your walkthrough being rejected from GameFAQs. * Programming languages that are deliberately constructed to be difficult to think about and work in. * The Museum of Artifacts From Collapsed Timelines. * Leaving your release date in the hands of the players and players deciding you should release on Christmas. * Letting ARG audience members take over your ARG design because you're busy making an executable. * Wanting something to be a commercial success and so hiding it as well as possible. * Reneging on your vow of obscurity at the last second and raking in the dough. * Not being able to put your game on sale because it would violate truth in advertising laws around the world. * Pricing your game high because games should cost money -- but that also meaning people have to pay that money. * Trying to convince the IRS that they've already deposited the check for the amount they're sending you a due notice for. * Enabling your bank teller to feel like a private investigator. * Adding quest flavor text when you ask things of retail workers so they feel like they'll get XP by helping you. * Asking the restaurant pianist to play Happy Birthday in a minor key and the pianist just being grateful that you didn't ask him to play Billy Joel's "Piano Man" for the fortieth time today. * Hearing somebody playing Gershwin in the next practice room over and playing Gershwin with them and them fleeing because the conservatory is haunted. * Asking the librarian to research paranormal activity on your property. * Tracking down the records of everyone who died in a house but entirely ignoring the fractals that may have died in the house. * Not accepting that although some things are known, you'll never know how they're known. * Realizing that economics and economists are dreadful. * Luminary physicists all having killed themselves because nobody took their theories seriously in their lifetimes. * Hiding behind freelance work because you're terrified try to to follow up your accidental success. * Not knowing what you're going to make, but definitely knowing how to sell it. * Bacteria just hanging out and waiting for you to succumb. * The bacteria in your jaw being the true legacy of your life's work. * Taking until your mid-30s to figure out how to work on purpose and not just when you're excited about something. * Sleeping when you want to sleep and getting up after you're not tired anymore. * Meeting a wife and coming to a sleep schedule compromise. * Having more dictionaries than you've ever had in your life. * Thinking your traditional holiday foods are weird until you hear about the other guy's holiday foods. * Pagan traditions intersecting with Christmas in ways that lead to incredibly weird food. * Thinking of whales as fish because you're allowed to eat them on Christmas Eve. * The food you like being impossible to find in a store or restaurant because it's horrifying. * A beet salad made with sour cream and beans and vinegar and peas and carrots and onions and a huge amount of pickles and nobody wanting to try it because it's the color of Pepto Bismol. * Eating poppy seed soup and failing every drug test for the rest of your life. * A puce soy milk served cold. * Skimming off the thick layer of poppy seed fat so your soup won't poison people. * Tiny dumplings representing food for the dead, because the dead don't need to eat a lot. * Pirate Santa, Santa's evil brother who likes puzzles and hiding presents. * Pirate Santa running the Christmas Puzzle Hunt to find all the ingredients for the Christmas appetizer log sandwich. * A Yule Sandwich Log, made from hard-boiled eggs, crumbled bacon, bread, avocado, pineapple, pimento cheese, shrimp, chili sauce, cranberry sauce, deviled ham, peanut butter and a dill pickle, all dipped in cream cheese and decorated with canned pears and maraschino cherries. * A combination of savory, sweet and salty that is pleasing even if you've read the recipe. * A garden gnome except it's a duck. * Decorating a duck for holidays rather than a tree. * Two ninja turtle doves. * Being disappointed with depictions of columnar cacti in popular media. * Being disappointed with depictions of Atari 2600 games in popular media. * Being subpoenaed to the Supreme Court to testify about whether an Atari 2600 video capture is a forgery. * Star Trek either being filmed in California, or every planet in the universe having a mediterranean-style biome. * Plants on Earth being way weirder than alien plants depicted in sci-fi.

Our Big Dumb Mouth
OBDM738 - Esptein Update | Extrasolar Object | Odd News

Our Big Dumb Mouth

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2019 63:38


Joe and Mike / Joe is somewhere in Texas / ExtraSolar Object / Epstein Update / JRE and Dan Aykroyd / Cryptocurrencies / Old Woman Gives Birthday  Joe's RobinHood Link: http://invite.robinhood.com/josephw4213   SuperChat ShoutOut: - Kiss the Sky $10 - Warren Zumwalt : Patreon: 4$ - HoboGrow: $2 #### NEWS #### New comet is our second interstellar visitor https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/09/new-comet-is-our-second-interstellar-visitor/ #Epstein News Top MIT official resigns in wake of explosive report on Jeffrey Epstein donations : VIDEO https://wtvr.com/2019/09/09/joi-ito-top-mit-official-resigns-in-wake-of-explosive-report-on-jeffrey-epstein-donations/ MIT Scandal Highlights Questionable Ethics of University Donations https://ktla.com/2019/09/09/brown-university-official-suspended-amid-probe-into-alleged-cover-up-of-epsteins-ties-to-mit/ HARVARD ADMITS TO $9 MILLION DONATION FROM JEFFREY EPSTEIN https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/74739/harvard-admits-to-9-million-donation-from-jeffrey.html 74-Year-Old Woman Becomes World’s Oldest Ever to Give Birth https://www.odditycentral.com/news/74-year-old-woman-becomes-worlds-oldest-ever-to-give-birth.html Heartless Mother Sells Off Twin Babies to Settle Debt, Buys New Smartphone https://www.odditycentral.com/news/heartless-mother-sells-off-twin-babies-to-settle-debt-buys-new-smartphone.html ‘Storm Area 51’ creator leaves alien-themed festival in shakeup over safety concerns, fear of ‘Fyre Fest 2.0’ https://www.foxnews.com/science/storm-area-51-creator-leaves-nevada-alien-themed-festival-downtown-las-vegas-event Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. ▀▄▀▄▀ LINKS ▀▄▀▄▀ ► Phone: 614-388-9109 ► Website: http://obdmpod.com ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/obdm ► Subscribe Star: https://www.subscribestar.com/obdm ► YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ourbigdumbmouth ► YouTube 2nd Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrj4SPfo5ySkEnyaQAW5zvA ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/obdmpod ► Instagram: obdmpod ► RSS: http://ourbigdumbmouth.libsyn.com/rss ► iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/our-big-dumb-mouth/id261189509?mt=2 ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/obdmpod ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/obdmnews ► Everything we do could be considered performance art ► Satire and Parody are often used ► OBDM T-Shirt: https://teespring.com/obdm-dino-wizard?73d3a50c4b#pid=46&cid=2753&sid=front

The Metaphysical Connection
News Of The Week of March 23rd 2019: Google AI and Sonic Weapons

The Metaphysical Connection

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2019 85:54


Google AI, Sonic weapons used on U.S. Diplomats in other countries, 5G, Conspiracy Theory Bloopers, 4,000 Extrasolar planets, feeling your planet's magnetic field, and laughs!

News Of The Week
News Of The Week of March 23rd 2019: Google AI and Sonic Weapons

News Of The Week

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2019 85:54


Google AI, Sonic weapons used on U.S. Diplomats in other countries, 5G, Conspiracy Theory Bloopers, 4,000 Extrasolar planets, feeling your planet's magnetic field, and laughs!

The Fedora Chronicles Network
News Of The Week of March 23rd 2019: Google AI and Sonic Weapons

The Fedora Chronicles Network

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2019 85:54


Google AI, Sonic weapons used on U.S. Diplomats in other countries, 5G, Conspiracy Theory Bloopers, 4,000 Extrasolar planets, feeling your planet's magnetic field, and laughs!

ASTR 104: Introduction to Stellar Astronomy - Complete
Live Class Lecture 2018 Oct 25 Ch 21 The Formation of Stars and Extrasolar Planets

ASTR 104: Introduction to Stellar Astronomy - Complete

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2018 54:12


ASTR 104: Introduction to Stellar Astronomy - Fall 2018
Live Class Lecture 2018 Oct 25 Ch 21 The Formation of Stars and Extrasolar Planets

ASTR 104: Introduction to Stellar Astronomy - Fall 2018

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2018 54:12


Vanguardia de la Ciencia - Cienciaes.com
Visitante extrasolar. Corazón de estrella. Perelman. Vacas locas.

Vanguardia de la Ciencia - Cienciaes.com

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2018


Hoy comenzamos con la historia del primer objeto de origen interestelar del que hemos sido testigos: el asteroide Oumuamua ¿o quizás debo decir “cometa”? Esta distinción, aparentemente sin importancia, nos acercará hoy a uno de los más intrigantes enigmas de este visitante extrasolar. Hablamos con el astrofísico Antonio Claret quien acaba de publicar los resultados de una investigación que nos ayuda a comprender lo que sucede en el corazón de las estrellas. Astronomía al aire nos cuenta la historia del científico que rechazó el premio de un millón de dólares: Grigori Perelman. Por último, responderemos a una pregunta enviada por un oyente: ¿Qué fue del Mal de las Vacas Locas?

Science On Top
SoT 281: Little Bit Magnificent Goat

Science On Top

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2017 30:33


Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall 00:00:51 A strange rock hurtling through space turns out to be the first known detection of a visitor from another solar system! By which we mean: not aliens. 00:15:08 Lentils might not sound like exciting archaeological discovery, but a find at the prehistoric site of Gurga Chiya in Iraqi Kurdistan could provide clues about the formation of permanent settlements and the development of social stratification. 00:22:45 Using muon-scanning technology, particle physicists have discovered a hidden void inside the Great Pyramid of Giza. But - surprise! - that's not as unusual or revolutionary as much of the media breathlessly reported.   This episode contains traces of archaeologist Zahi Hawass criticising the Great Pyramid void discovery on RT America.

Ciencia Fresca - Cienciaes.com
Muones y la Gran Pirámide. Dengue exacerbado. El visitante extrasolar. Envejecimiento inevitable.

Ciencia Fresca - Cienciaes.com

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2017


Comenzamos con una investigación que ha utilizado a los muones, unas partículas elementales que se generan por el choque de los rayos cósmicos con la atmósfera terrestre, para detectar la existencia de una cámara oculta en la Gran Pirámide de Egipto. La segunda investigación revela que los anticuerpos contra el virus de la Dengue, una enfermedad tropical causada por un virus trasmitido por varias especies de mosquito del género Aedes, en particular Aedes aegypti, pueden exacerbar esta enfermedad en ciertas condiciones. A continuación hablamos de un visitante inesperado, procendente de un lugar situado más allá del Sistema Solar, se trata de un asteroide, descubierto el 19 de octubre, que ha pasado entre el Mercurio y el Sol siguiendo una trayectoria hiperbólica. Y, por último, hablamos de una investigación que demuestra que el que el envejecimiento, aunque pueda ser retrasado, es inevitable.

ASTR 103: Introduction to Planetary Astronomy - Complete
Live Class Lecture 2017 Jul 12 Ch 10 The Origin of the Solar System and Extrasolar Planets

ASTR 103: Introduction to Planetary Astronomy - Complete

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2017 97:00


ASTR 103: Introduction to Planetary Astronomy - Spring 2019
Live Class Lecture 2017 Jul 12 Ch 10 The Origin of the Solar System and Extrasolar Planets

ASTR 103: Introduction to Planetary Astronomy - Spring 2019

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2017 97:00


Section Solo Music
The Wanderer (Joshua Epp Remix)

Section Solo Music

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2017 4:15


Stars is finally here! After ten months in the making, this EP is finally done and ready for your ears. I feel like the technical quality of my work has improved so much between Extrasolar and Stars, and I've experimented more with different sounds, genres, and compositional techniques. I hope you enjoy the EP!

Section Solo Music
Stars (Reprise)

Section Solo Music

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2017 1:13


Stars is finally here! After ten months in the making, this EP is finally done and ready for your ears. I feel like the technical quality of my work has improved so much between Extrasolar and Stars, and I've experimented more with different sounds, genres, and compositional techniques. I hope you enjoy the EP!

ASTR 103: Introduction to Planetary Astronomy - Complete
Live Class Lecture 2017 Mar 22 Ch 9 The Origin of the Solar System and Extrasolar Planets

ASTR 103: Introduction to Planetary Astronomy - Complete

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2017 37:05


ASTR 103: Introduction to Planetary Astronomy - Complete
Live Class Lecture 2017 Mar 20 Ch 10 The Origin of the Solar System and Extrasolar Planets

ASTR 103: Introduction to Planetary Astronomy - Complete

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2017 97:41


Quilo de Ciencia - Cienciaes.com
Difícil vida en el planeta extrasolar más próximo

Quilo de Ciencia - Cienciaes.com

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2016


Recientemente conocimos el descubrimiento del planeta extrasolar más próximo a la Tierra. Este planeta orbita alrededor de la estrella más cercana al Sol, Próxima de Centauro, situada a unos cuatro años luz de la Tierra. Aunque por ahora está fuera de nuestro alcance, si, en un futuro, la Humanidad se atreve a salir del Sistema Solar, lo más probable es que la primera aventura sea llegar a esa estrella. El planeta descubierto, al que se ha bautizado con el nombre de Próxima b, posee una masa de 1,3 veces la terrestre y se encuentra orbitando a Próxima dentro de la llamada zona habitable de la estrella, o sea, aquella región que es compatible con la existencia de agua líquida.

Section Solo Music
Rock Planet

Section Solo Music

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2016 3:50


A song from Extrasolar. Our journey begins its last leg as we visit a barren and lifeless rock planet.

Section Solo Music
Pulsar Planet

Section Solo Music

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2016 3:30


A song from Extrasolar. We next find ourselves drawn to a powerful pulsar star, and the planet orbiting it.

Section Solo Music
Homeward Bound

Section Solo Music

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2016 3:34


A song from Extrasolar. Our journey has come to an end. The warp drive deactivates and our home slowly fades into view. The end.

Section Solo Music
Ocean World

Section Solo Music

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2016 3:15


A song from Extrasolar. After witnessing the fiery destruction of the Gas Giant, we rest on a tranquil Ocean World.

Section Solo Music
Rogue Planet

Section Solo Music

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2016 3:21


A song from Extrasolar. The journey begins again, and we come across a planet that has no sun. It hurtles through space, forever drifting.

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
Michel Mayor, Discoverer of the First Extrasolar World

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2016 39:42


Michel Mayor and his team rocked the astronomy world with their 1995 announcement, but this modest man says it was a discovery whose time had come.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ASTR 103: Introduction to Planetary Astronomy - Complete
Live Class Lecture 2016 Mar 23 Ch 10 Origin of the Solar System and Extrasolar Planets

ASTR 103: Introduction to Planetary Astronomy - Complete

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2016 60:42


ASTR 103: Introduction to Planetary Astronomy - Complete
Live Class Lecture 2016 Mar 21 Ch 10 Origin of the Solar System and Extrasolar Planets

ASTR 103: Introduction to Planetary Astronomy - Complete

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2016 40:18


Watson Lectures - HD
Chasing Extrasolar Space Weather (Feb. 10, 2016)

Watson Lectures - HD

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2016 57:14


Caltech Watson Lecture Series. Produced in association with Caltech Academic Media Technologies. ©2016 California Institute of Technology

Watson Lectures - SD
Chasing Extrasolar Space Weather (Feb. 10, 2016)

Watson Lectures - SD

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2016 57:14


Caltech Watson Lecture Series. Produced in association with Caltech Academic Media Technologies. ©2016 California Institute of Technology

Watson Lectures
Chasing Extrasolar Space Weather (Feb. 10, 2016)

Watson Lectures

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2016 56:55


Caltech Watson Lecture Series. Produced in association with Caltech Academic Media Technologies. ©2016 California Institute of Technology

Section Solo Music
Ice Planet (feat. All the Pretty Lights)

Section Solo Music

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2016 2:36


Track from Extrasolar. A while after seeing the fiery destruction of the Gas Giant, we see a colder, but equally as destructive Ice Planet.

Section Solo Music
Gas Giant (feat. Abby Davidson)

Section Solo Music

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2016 3:51


A song from Extrasolar. The journey begins with the first planet--a chaotic gas giant with its civilization on the verge of collapse.

People Behind the Science Podcast - Stories from Scientists about Science, Life, Research, and Science Careers
222: Out of This World Research on Extrasolar Planets - Dr. Shawn Domagal-Goldman

People Behind the Science Podcast - Stories from Scientists about Science, Life, Research, and Science Careers

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2015 50:31


Dr. Shawn Domagal-Goldman is a Research Space Sientist with NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center. He received his Masters Degree in Earth Sciences from the University of Rochester and his PhD in Astrobiology and Geosciences from the Pennsylvania State University. Shawn previously worked as a Research Associate at Penn State, a Research Associate in the Virtual Planetary Laboratory at the University of Washington, and also served as the NASA Astrobiology Management Postdoctoral Fellow before accepting his current position. Shawn is here with us today to tell us all about his journey through life and science.

Indie MEGACAST
Indie MEGACAST – Episode 24 – Extrasolar

Indie MEGACAST

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2014 38:53


Extrasolar opens doorways to planetary exploration for Patrick and Rob. The post Indie MEGACAST – Episode 24 – Extrasolar appeared first on Indie MEGABOOTH.

Keck Institute for Space Studies - Audio
Magnetic Fields in Extrasolar Planets: Observational Approaches

Keck Institute for Space Studies - Audio

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2013 27:40


Jospeh Lazio from JPL discusses magnetic fields in extrasolar planets: observational approaches. This talk was part of the Short Course on Magnetic Fields: A Window to a Planet's Interior and Habitability at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on August 12, 2013.

Keck Institute for Space Studies - Video
Magnetic Fields in Extrasolar Planets: Observational Approaches

Keck Institute for Space Studies - Video

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2013 28:09


Jospeh Lazio from JPL discusses magnetic fields in extrasolar planets: observational approaches. This talk was part of the Short Course on Magnetic Fields: A Window to a Planet's Interior and Habitability at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on August 12, 2013.

Science... sort of
Ep 148: Science... sort of - Through The Looking Gas

Science... sort of

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2012 69:56


00:00:00 - PhD Candidate Trey Mack joins the Paleopals to talk about KELT, a tiny telescope that's able to find planets orbiting other stars. Trey gives us the basics, then we get sidetracked asking him just how he got into this whole astronomy gig in the first place. 00:17:53 - Drinks can also be hard to find, especially if you've already have a few to begin with. Ben, who can't have artifical colors, settle for a Glaceau Vitamin Water Lemonade flavor, to help him through a 'hot' Canadian day. Whatever that means. Ryan and Trey share a Brooklyn Black Ops. And Patrick promotes a new East Coast standard in Old Dominion's Dominion Ale. 00:24:11  - This week Trailer Trash Talk takes a page from This American Life whilst discussing the new, possibly funny, film Sleepwalk With Me.  00:38:49 - We decide to let Trey stop talking about himself long enough tell us more about his amazing planet-hunting science. 00:55:33 - PaleoPOWs are lot like planets, it helps if you have some idea where to look for them. Ryan is thrilled by a new recurring donation from Blair C., who has drawn some awesome t-shirts you should definitely buy and wear (after getting your Science... sort of shirt, of course). Ben has a Facebook comment from Brittany V. which questions his relationship with bonobos. It's better not to ask. And finally Patrick has a Twitter conversation initiated by Ty Von P. about how an understanding of punctuation finally convinced him to try the show.   Discuss this episode and other podcasts from the Brachiolope Media Network on our forum!   Music for this week's show provided by: Astronomy - Blue Oyster Cult Home Made Lemonade - Black Prarie Sleepwalkin' - Modest Mouse Now That We've Found Each Other - Ray Charles (from Brother Ray Is At It Again!)

Brains Matter
156 – Professor Chris Tinney – The Search for Extrasolar Planets

Brains Matter

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2012


There can be few questions more fundamental for a scientist’s research to address than “Is our home here on Earth unique? Or ubiquitous?” Astronomers involved in the search for – and the study of – extra-solar planets are fortunate enough to have this sort of question driving their daily activities. This episode is sponsored by […]

The Titanium Physicists Podcast
Episode 7: Extra Solar Planets

The Titanium Physicists Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2012 34:31


It's my old Friends Rupinder Brar and Joanna Woo! Today we get to talk to Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics fame. We try to explain how planets around other stars get detected.  Also Star Trek gets mentioned. There's some edited-out conversation after the end music, for those of you who like to hear people talk even more about star trek. May The Force Live Long And Prosper With YOU!!!

Science News Flash
Extrasolar Planet is Darkest Ever Seen

Science News Flash

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2011 17:46


You might have seen: Yahoo! News, "Strange planet is blacker than coal" Aug 11, 2011; http://news.yahoo.com/strange-planet-blacker-coal-145858028.html

27. Life in the Universe
Life on Extrasolar Planets

27. Life in the Universe

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2011 1:12


Transcript: If we believe that life needs a planet as a site to form, then the discovery of extrasolar planets is very exciting because it shows that planets form naturally as a byproduct of star formation. Over a hundred extrasolar planets have been found. Most of them, however, are nothing like terrestrial planets in our solar system. They are almost all like Jupiter and Saturn. However, they are much closer to their stars than Jupiter and Saturn. Half of the extrasolar planets known are less than a half of an astronomical unit from their stars, similar to the distance of Mercury and much smaller than the distances to Jupiter and Saturn in our solar system. They also travel on highly elliptical orbits which mean that the temperatures will vary substantially over the orbit. Such hot and giant planets must have migrated inward from larger distances. This evolution, plus the extreme physical conditions, plus the heavy, dense atmospheres and difficult conditions on rocky cores if they exist mean that astronomers are very pessimistic that life could exist on the extrasolar planets that have been found so far.

12. Formation and Nature of Planetary Systems

Transcript: The Sun is a star like other stars. This raises a question: if the sun has planets, do other stars have planets orbiting around them, and are planets a natural byproduct of star formation? In this case we would expect to find planets throughout the Milky Way galaxy surrounding many of the billions of stars contained within our galaxy. For centuries astronomers could do no more then speculate about the answer to this question. In 1995 success was achieved for the first time with the discovery of an extrasolar planet, a planet beyond the solar system. This young subject is now maturing and there are many extrasolar planets to study giving us indications that planets form frequently throughout the cosmos and leading to the speculation of whether life might not form frequently also.

12. Formation and Nature of Planetary Systems
Signature of Extrasolar Planets

12. Formation and Nature of Planetary Systems

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2011 1:00


Transcript: The indirect Doppler technique is the most promising way to detect extrasolar planets. We can see what the size and the signature of the effect should be. If a Jupiter were orbiting a Sun-like star, the signature of Jupiter would be a periodic sinusoidal variation in the Doppler shift of the star with an amplitude of 13 meters per second and a period of 12 years. This is the data variation that would be observed to detect the planet. The amplitude would be less if the orientation of the orbit were not exactly parallel to the line of sight. It would be less if the planet were smaller or less massive, and it would be less if the planet were further from the star. The requirement, therefore, is extremely high precision and signal-to-noise spectroscopy over a period of many years, which is one of the reasons that it took so long to detect extrasolar planets.

12. Formation and Nature of Planetary Systems
Theories of Extrasolar Planets

12. Formation and Nature of Planetary Systems

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2011 0:58


Transcript: The properties of extrasolar planets leave us with a puzzle. Our solar system has gas giants that are 5 astronomical units or further from the Sun. Almost all the extrasolar planet systems have giant planets much less than this distance, in most cases less than 1 astronomical unit. Is our solar system atypical? We think we understand the formation process of our solar system, so how did these extrasolar planets form? There are many theories, and we don’t know for sure. But there are certainly dynamical processes by which gas giant planets could migrate from larger distances to smaller distances. However, many of these theories imply that we should be catching these planets at a particular and maybe short-lived phase of their evolution. A large amount of study will be needed for us to understand their formation.

12. Formation and Nature of Planetary Systems
Properties of Extrasolar Planets

12. Formation and Nature of Planetary Systems

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2011 0:52


Transcript: Measurements of extrasolar planets are difficult and uncertain, but enough have been found to give a sense of their statistical properties. They are neither rare nor ubiquitous. Around Sun-like stars they occur in about 10 to 20 percent of the cases. Almost all the masses are in the range one to ten times the mass of Jupiter. Roughly half have orbits that are very tight around their stars, less then an astronomical unit, and with orbital periods of less than a year. Several have been found with multiple planets indicating that solar systems are not unique, and techniques of lensing and eclipses have been used to measure the sizes in several cases showing that they are indeed gas giant planets like those in our solar system.

12. Formation and Nature of Planetary Systems
Discovery of Extrasolar Planets

12. Formation and Nature of Planetary Systems

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2011 1:05


Transcript: In 1995 years of painstaking work with the Doppler technique began to bear fruit. Discoveries were announced by a Swiss team of Mayor and Queloz and an American team led by Marcy. A steady increase in the number of extrasolar planets has occurred. By 2002, over 100 were known and 8 to 10 new ones are discovered every year, but there are surprises. Among the first twenty extrasolar planets to be discovered they’re almost all Jupiter or super-Jupiter sizes, 1 to 10 Jupiter masses, the smallest about 40 percent the mass of Jupiter. Among those first twenty, 14 are at closer distances from their stars than the Earth is in its orbit of the Sun, less than 1 AU, and all are less than 30 AU. This manifestation of planetary systems, large, massive, gas giant planets in tight, inner solar system orbits was a complete surprise to astronomers who viewed the data.

The Future And You
The Future And You -- July 13, 2011

The Future And You

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2011 38:21


James Maxey (author and "big science geek") and Jim Craig (planetarium director) are our featured guests. Topic: The Year in Science. What's new and what's happening. Such as: Is science slowing down?; water verified on the moon; eyeglass head-up computers; a thousand planets discovered outside our solar system; and a vast cloud of alcohol discovered in space large enough to keep every living human drunk for the next three million years. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the July 13, 2011 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 38 minutes]. This is the first half of a discussion panel recorded before a live audience on June 4, 2011 in Charlotte North Carolina at the SF&F convention ConCarolinas. (The second half will be presented next week.) James Maxey is the author of the superhero novel Nobody Gets the Girl as well as the Dragon Age fantasy series which includes the novels Bitterwood, Dragonforge, and Dragonseed. Set a thousand years in the future, after the fall of our modern civilization, in a world dominated by the intelligent dragons we created through genetic engineering. Humans are reduced to slaves, and the remnants of long forgotten nanotechnology make the world a wondrous place of magic. Jim Craig is the director of the James H. Lynn Planetarium at the Schiele Museum in Gastonia NC. He is a lifelong science fiction fan and has given presentations on the history of science fiction. He is an outspoken activist for science education, critical thinking, skepticism and free thought. In 2006 he was allowed to name a crater on Mars. Bonus: Your host reads a few paragraphs from his new novel Skinbrain (Cerebrodermus Fantastica) which features the alien character who calls herself Pug. Pug believes our galaxy belongs to her, which would be a meaningless notion if she did not have the power to destroy whole civilizations. And indeed, the habit.

Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists
Kepler 11 - A Unique Extrasolar System

Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2011 61:38


In this month's Naked Astronomy, we explore the unique system of six planets orbiting the star Kepler 11, and find out what to expect from the James Webb Space Telescope. Plus news of the runaway star spotted by WISE - the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, a STEREO view of the whole Sun and how a galaxy spotted at a redshift of 10 can teach us about star formation in the early universe. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists
Kepler 11 - A Unique Extrasolar System

Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2011 61:38


In this month's Naked Astronomy, we explore the unique system of six planets orbiting the star Kepler 11, and find out what to expect from the James Webb Space Telescope. Plus news of the runaway star spotted by WISE - the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, a STEREO view of the whole Sun and how a galaxy spotted at a redshift of 10 can teach us about star formation in the early universe. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
Kepler Discovers Hundreds of Extrasolar Planets!

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2011 28:50


Kepler Discovers Hundreds of Extrasolar Planets!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steward Observatory Public Evening Lecture Series
Revealing the Atmospheres of Extrasolar Super-Earths

Steward Observatory Public Evening Lecture Series

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2011 72:08


Dr. Eliza Kempton graduated from Middlebury College in 2003 with a B.A. in physics, and in 2009 she received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in astronomy. Eliza's research focuses on small extrasolar planets known as super-Earths. These planets are 1 to 10 times more massive than the Earth, and they are currently offering astronomers the first glimpse into "exo"-worlds that may be similar to our own. Eliza models the atmospheres of extrasolar super-Earths to determine aspects such as atmospheric structure and composition. Understanding the atmospheres of extrasolar planets is an important step on the road toward finding a truly Earth-like planet. January 27, 2011

Steward/NOAO Joint Colloquium Series
Revealing the Atmospheres of Extrasolar Super-Earths

Steward/NOAO Joint Colloquium Series

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2011 63:25


Dr. Eliza Kempton graduated from Middlebury College in 2003 with a B.A. in physics, and in 2009 she received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in astronomy. Eliza's research focuses on small extrasolar planets known as super-Earths. These planets are 1 to 10 times more massive than the Earth, and they are currently offering astronomers the first glimpse into "exo"-worlds that may be similar to our own. Eliza models the atmospheres of extrasolar super-Earths to determine aspects such as atmospheric structure and composition. Understanding the atmospheres of extrasolar planets is an important step on the road toward finding a truly Earth-like planet. Jan. 27, 2011.

SURF Presentations
Direct Detection of Extrasolar Planets (Jan. 6, 2011)

SURF Presentations

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2011 17:39


SURF Presentations
Direct Detection of Extrasolar Planets (Jan. 6, 2011)

SURF Presentations

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2011 17:30


Steward/NOAO Joint Colloquium Series
Telescopes for Enlightenment and for Energy

Steward/NOAO Joint Colloquium Series

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2011 67:35


Dr. Angel is Director, Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory, Regents' Professor of Astronomy, and Regents' Professor of Optical Sciences. His major research areas are Research: Adaptive optics, Instrumentation, Extrasolar planets, Telescope design and optical fabrication, Geoengineeering and Concentrating. photovoltaic solar energy

Big Picture Science
Seth's Storage Locker

Big Picture Science

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 26, 2010 51:47


ENCORE It's always an adventure to go digging in Seth’s storage locker – who knows what we’ll find … In this imposing pile of paraphernalia, tucked between boxes of socket wrenches and old 45s, we stumble upon the hunt for extrasolar planets, the evidence for water on moons of the solar system, theories of language, a controversial hypothesis for the peopling of the Americas, and a new dinosaur fossil. Guests: Steve Brusatte - Vertebrate paleontologist from the American Museum of Natural History in New York Steven Pinker - Psychologist, Harvard University Geoff Marcy - Astronomer, University of California, Berkeley Adam Showman - Planetary scientist at the University of Arizona Mike Collins - Associate Director, Texas Archeological Research Laboratory Descripción en español

PH4999-Extraordinary Concepts in Physics
Search for Life: Extrasolar Planets- PH4999

PH4999-Extraordinary Concepts in Physics

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2010 14:01


The Future And You
The Future And You -- Nov. 3, 2010

The Future And You

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2010 31:12


Stephen Euin Cobb (your host) is today's featured guest. This episode celebrates humanity's imminent achievement of discovering our 500th planet outside our solar system (exoplanet or extrasolar planet). Your host shares three essays he has written on the topic: two of which are strictly scientific and one that is pragmatic speculation. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the November 3, 2010 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 31 minutes] Stephen Euin Cobb is (according to Wikipedia) a U.S. author, magazine writer, interviewer and host of the award-winning podcast The Future and You. He's also a columnist and contributing editor for Jim Baen's Universe Magazine; a contributing editor for Robot Magazine; and has written for Space and Time Magazine, H+ Magazine, and Grim Couture Magazine. He is also a game designer, artist, essayist, futurist, transhumanist, and is on the Advisory Board of The Lifeboat Foundation.

Big Picture Science
Off to the Traces

Big Picture Science

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2010 51:37


If a tree fell on another planet, would we be able to detect it? Not quite yet – but we might be able to tell if the planet was habitable. A living-planet is the promise of newly-discovered Gliese 581g. But does the planet exist at all? Discover how we learn a planet’s geology and chemistry from afar. Also, what we learn about a civilization from what it discards, beginning with our own sloppy habits. Plus, the hunt for derelict alien spaceships… and a man who sketches alien creatures for a living - based on real science. Guests: Lisa Kaltenegger - Astronomer, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Brad Bebout - Biologist, NASA Ames Research Center Robin Nagle - Anthropologist, New York University Robin Hanson - Economist, George Mason University Joel Hagen - Computer graphics instructor, Modesto Junior College Descripción en español

Astronomy - Frontiers of Science
Lecture 3 - Indirect Evidence of Extrasolar Planets

Astronomy - Frontiers of Science

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2010 6:20


Astronomy - Frontiers of Science
Lecture 3 - Methods of Detecting Extrasolar Planets

Astronomy - Frontiers of Science

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2010 10:44


Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists
Is Our Solar System Strange?

Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2010 45:53


Is our solar system normal? We compare ourselves to the ever increasing list of exoplanets to find out if we're the weird ones in the universe in this month's Naked Astronomy. Also, we explore the Nili Fossae region of Mars, where the rocks may contain evidence of early life - if only we could get there to find out. Plus, news about the shrinking moon and buckyballs in space and we tackle your space science questions. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists
Is Our Solar System Strange?

Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2010 45:53


Is our solar system normal? We compare ourselves to the ever increasing list of exoplanets to find out if we're the weird ones in the universe in this month's Naked Astronomy. Also, we explore the Nili Fossae region of Mars, where the rocks may contain evidence of early life - if only we could get there to find out. Plus, news about the shrinking moon and buckyballs in space and we tackle your space science questions. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

I Didn't Know That!
Starlight and Gravitational Pull, Organic Hazes and Day 4, Extrasolar Percentage, The Science of God

I Didn't Know That!

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2010 34:09


Starlight and Gravitational Pull, Organic Hazes and Day 4, Extrasolar Percentage, The Science of God

Fakultät für Physik - Digitale Hochschulschriften der LMU - Teil 03/05

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:00:00 +0100 https://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9970/ https://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9970/1/Doellinger_Michaela.pdf Doellinger, Michaela ddc:530, ddc:500, Fakultät für Physik

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Most Earthlike Extrasolar Planet Yet -- A Conversation With Co-Discoverer Stephane Udry

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2007 28:50


The Most Earthlike Extrasolar Planet Yet -- A Conversation With Co-Discoverer Stephane UdryLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

Hunting for Extrasolar PlanetsLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Astro Bulletin
Doc - Beyond Our Solar System: Searching for Extrasolar Planets

Astro Bulletin

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2003 7:43


Astrophysicists are discovering new extrasolar planets—those outside our Solar System—almost daily. NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope (originally called SIRTF, or the Space Infrared Telescope Facility) and AMNH’s Lyot Project Coronograph are two of the many technologies uncovering the attributes and evolution of these faraway worlds. The techniques employed by these instruments may one day help answer one of astronomy’s reigning mysteries: do any extrasolar planets host life? The feature video relates scientists’ hopes for the Spitzer Space Telescope before its launch in 2003. It also gives a firsthand look into the making of the Lyot Project. The feature essays share how these two remarkable technologies are making progress in their goals to seek and understand extrasolar planets.

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
An Encore for Sir Arthur and Another New Extrasolar Planet

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2003 30:09


An Encore for Sir Arthur and Another New Extrasolar PlanetLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
100 Extrasolar Planet Candidates...and Counting!

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2003 29:53


100 Extrasolar Planet Candidates...and Counting!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices