Former NASA Astronaut & NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden discusses his growing up as an African American in the segregated US South, & his and other African American’s experiences with and accomplishments to the US Space Program
We thought stellar mass black holes came from stars and that there might have been tiny primordial black holes that evaporated away, but that was it. Closed case. Black holes formed with all the normal structures we experience today. Except that now, JWST’s observations require us to find a way to accelerate the formation of those structures, and one way to do that is to seed the universe with black holes.
This month @AwesomeAstroPod investigate sub surface oceans on the moons of the solar system, smoking stars, distant blackholes, oversized structures and of course tippy over lunar landers.
In a groundbreaking cosmic quest, the COSMIC project at the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) is expanding the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). More about this project on today’s #365DaysOfAstro podcast
What are the best ways to see planets around other stars? One can imagine that it is not easy. This episode looks at ways astronomers find exoplanets.
NASA works on many missions using tried and true technology, but they also invest in creative ideas that could drive the future of space exploration. It’s called NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts or NIAC.
Does 2016 EJ203 a TNO object? And lets learn more about polar vortex winds and the stratospheric polar night jet wind.
Gemini North, one half of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, is now peering deeper into the dusty dwellings of young stars with its new IGRINS-2 instrument
The Observer’s Calendar for March 2024 talk about Asteroids like Juno and Thalia, the Moon pairing with Jupiter and Mercury plus spotting the star Sirius in the daytime sky.
Every time I get the digital “why can’t you scientists just look at the data” lecture, I wonder what people think scientists do. All we do is look at data including accelerating rate of expansion of the Universe…