This week, @AstronomyCast discuss what it’s going to take to detect intelligent life out there in space.
Jun 28th: What is Required to Confirm Alien Life: Intelligence Edition
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Jun 21st: What is Required to Confirm Alien Life: Non-Sentient Edition
Are we alone in the Universe? It’s one of the biggest scientific questions we can possibly ask. And yet, with rovers on Mars, missions planned to visit Europa and Ganymede. Powerful telescopes able to detect the atmospheres of exoplanets, we’re closer than ever to finding out the answer.
Jun 14th: Volcanos With Benefits: Lava Tubes, Hydro Thermal Vents & More
Volcanos can be some of the worst natural disasters that we can experience here on Earth. But life wouldn’t even exist without them. So, what are volcanos good for anyway?
Jun 7th: NASA Perseverance, The First 100 Days
As you all know, Pamela refuses to talk about any missions which aren’t actually doing science. Well, Perseverance has crossed the line, from fantasy to an actual working rover, scooping regolith and yeeting helicopters. What has the rover accomplished in its first 100 days?
May 31st: InSight and Earthquakes
Mars is cold and dead today, but the massive volcanoes tell us what the planet used to be like, millions and even billions of years ago. But how volcanically active is the planet today? That’s what NASA’s Mars InSight lander is there to figure out.
May 24th: Skipping Through Time
Have you ever wanted to be a time traveler? Well, good news! You’re time traveling right now. Into the future at one second per second. Today, let’s talk about the weird world of time dilation.
May 17th: Sounding Rockets
Last week we talked about balloon-based astronomy. This week we’re gonna talk about putting telescopes on rockets and making observations mid flight. Welcome to the wild world of sounding rockets.
May 10th: Balloon Astronomy
Some telescopes are carried high into the atmosphere on board balloons. What can they accomplish?
May 3rd: New Colors of the Radio Spectrum
This week @AstronomyCast will discuss about the other end of the electromagnetic spectrum and explore the longer radio waves which are now accessible.
Apr 26th: The New Colors of Gamma Rays – Getting Shorter
The Earth’s atmosphere protects us from a Universe that is definitely trying to kill us. But it also blocks our view of the entire cosmos, like seeing X-rays and gamma radiation. Space telescopes are changing our view of the most extreme events in the Universe.