All eyes are on the Moon. We’re going back, this time to stay, right? One of the best resources on the Moon will be the lava tubes that criss-cross the subsurface of the Moon.
Dec 14th: Lunar Resources: Lava Tubes
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Dec 7th: The Artemis Accords
So the Moon is about to become a very busy place with multiple countries and private companies planning missions in the next few years. It’s time for the Artemis Accords!
Nov 30th: Life as We Know It: Habitable Exoplanets & Extremophiles
As scientists continue to explore the Earth, they’re discovering life, surviving and even thriving in extreme environments. What hints can this give us about what we might find as we search for live on other worlds.
Nov 23rd: Super Earths, Mini-Neptunes & Gas Dwarfs
Astronomers are finding even more new extrasolar planets and they’re starting to discover entirely new categories.
Nov 16th: Stellar Populations
How did we get from plain old hydrogen to our current diversity? It came from stars, in fact successive generations of stars.
Nov 9th: Pluto And The Icy Outer Solar System
This time we’re going to talk about Pluto, its moons, the Kuiper belt, and the other icy objects that inhabit the outer Solar System.
Nov 2nd: Sample Return Missions From Asteroids
So with a sample of asteroid Bennu firmly inside OSIRIS-REx’s return capsule, it’s time to bring this treasure home. But it’s not the only sample return mission out there, with Japan’s Hayabusa II mission also bringing asteroid debris home. So today, let’s talk about the missions and what we’ve learned so far.
Oct 26th: The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three brilliant researchers who worked out some of the secrets of black holes. Today we’re going to talk about the chain of discoveries that led to this award.
Oct 19th: Building Bigger Black Holes
Now, we know there are stellar mass black holes and supermassive black holes, but how do you get from one to the other? How do black holes get more massive?
Oct 12th: Other Kinds Of Novae
This week we gather up all the left over ways that stars partially or fully explode or don’t. Probably. Enjoy!