Taking a look at how over the last 40 years we went from only knowing of the handful of planets in our solar system to knowing of around 5,000 planets littering the galaxy.
May 24th: We’ve Discovered At Least 5,000 Planets!
Tag: habitable planet
Apr 30th: Seeds & Laser Surfing
Today’s Travelers in the night will tell a story about carrying libraries of our planet’s DNA and the seeds of plants as connection between past life, the inorganic world, and future life. Also a search chemical signs of living organisms in exoplanet’s atmosphere
Mar 10th: Better Than Earth?
Earth is the best planet in the Universe. No matter where we go, we’ll never find a planet that’s a better home to Earth life than Earth. However, is it the best planet? More at #365DaysOfAstro
Mar 7th: Weirdly Habitable Places
We’ve always assumed that habitable planets would need to be like Earth; a terrestrial planet orbiting a sunlike star. But now astronomers have been discovering planets in the habitable zone around very much non-sunlike stars. What strange places could be habitable?
Oct 14th: Encore: Are We Alone
Are we alone? Well, that’s the biggest question in science that I can think of anyway. So what’s the answer? Well, the short answer is “We don’t know.” Let’s dig more on today’s #365DaysOfAstro
Sep 21st: What’s the Best Way to Search for Life?
What kind of signals are we searching for from aliens? What are technosignatures and biosignatures? How are we looking for non-intelligent life? Is there any hope of finding life in our own solar system? I
Mar 11th: The Unlikeliness of Being
We might be alone, unless it turns out that we aren’t.
Nov 4th: Dr. Derrick Pitts of the Fels Planetarium
What’s up this week in astronomy? check it out!
July 2nd: Goldilocks and the Three Planets
