The fact that we’ve found a habitable planet candidate so soon after starting our search has important implications. More on today’s podcast
Jun 10th: The Importance Of Gliese 581g
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May 27th: Biosignatures: The Search for Life Beyond Earth
The search for life ia about finding out if a planet located in habitable zone and more other information to learn if life may be there.
May 5th: Exoplanet K2-18b
It’s in the news and people are claiming aliens… but is it aliens? Let’s see what the data actually says.
Apr 15th: Venus Could Have Supported Life For Billions Of Years
Venus sucks. Seriously, that place is the worst, with its boiling temperature, intense pressure, sulfuric acid rain. But was it always this bad?
Feb 11th: What is the Habitable Worlds Observatory?
Finding habitable worlds need a dedicated instrument that does nothing else but tries to locate and characterize them. That’s where the Habitable Worlds Observatory comes in
Aug 27th: How Common Are Habitable Exoplanets?
How common are habitable planets? Where’s the life? How common are planets that could potentially support life?
May 24th: We’ve Discovered At Least 5,000 Planets!
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.
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?