Podcaster: Steve Nerlich
Title: Dear CA #105: Life & Death
Organization: Cheap Astronomy
Links: http://cheapastro.com
Description: Huh, an astronomy podcast about planets. Staying alive…
Dear Cheap Astronomy – Just how useful are humans in space?
Just by landing robots on Mars, we’ve been able to take lots of photos, smell the air, feel the ground and listen to the wind blow. We’ve got bogged in difficult terrain, but also climbed hills to take in the view and even operated a drone. Sending people there is a lot more fraught…
Dear Cheap Astronomy – What is the death zone radius of a black hole merger?
The background to this question is the gravitational wave data we’ve been detecting with LIGO– the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory. The data received can be reverse-engineered to quantify the astronomical event that caused the gravitational waves detected.
Bio: Cheap Astronomy offers an educational website where you’re only as cheap as the telescope you’re looking through.
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