The Earth is teeming with life, but the upper atmosphere to kilometers underground. There’s no question that our planet has life. But is our planet itself alive?
May 9th: Can Planets Be Alive?
Tag: exoplanet
May 4th: Awesome Astronomy May 2022 News
Time for @AwesomeAstroPod news round-up and skyguide. We have JWST, new type of nebula, detecting life in Europa, exoplanet around dead star, galaxy with no dark matter and more. #365DaysOfAstro
Apr 6th: Awesome Astronomy April 2022 News Roundup
Time for newsroundup and skyguide with @AwesomeAstroPod. The team discuss about JWST performance, a milestone of 5000 exoplanet, carbon impact of running large observatories, impossible supermassive blackhole orbit. 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?
Mar 4th: MAREVL 2.0 Static Fire Tests with Seth Lockman
Time for weekly update with @WSHCrew. Tonight the team will discuss about MAREVL 2.0 Static Fire Tests with Seth Lockman from bluShift Aerospace, Mars mineral, a bunch of exoplanet and the impact of Russian/Ukrainian war on all things space
Feb 2nd: Awesome Astronomy February 2022 News Round Up
What to observe in February? Listen to @awesomeastropod #skyguide and news round up today at #365DaysOfAstro. The team will cover Venus sample return mission, big far away star with very big planet, another ocean moon in Saturn and many more.
Dec 28th: Awesome Astronomy’s Xmas Special Episode
Time for 2021 highlight with @AwesomeAstroPod. Starting with usual Xmas frivolity to go to NASA’s coverage of Elon Musk’s Penetrating Explorer Neo Insertion System rocket delivering NASA’s Advanced Solar System probe to Uranus and look back at the astronomy and space exploration highlights of 2021.
Dec 17th: Flashes of Creation by Dr. Paul Halpern: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, & the Great Big Bang Debate
Join us today for weekly update with @WSHCrew. Today the team will discuss with Dr. Paul Halpern about flashes of creation. And as usual the team will bring news update about Water on Mars, exoplanet, and how quickly the Moon cooled.
Dec 8th: These exo-rocks are stranger than fiction
By studying white dwarf stars, and finding some of them, well, in a way polluted, astronomers have found that most rocky exoplanets are made of rocks we can’t find anywhere in our Solar System.
Dec 6th: Gas Giants
For the longest time the only gas giant planets that we knew about were Jupiter and Saturn. But now, in the age of extrasolar planets, astronomers have discovered thousands of gas giants across almost as many star systems. What new discoveries have been made about gas giants, both here in the solar system and across the Milky Way