Gemini North | The Daily Space

Martian Dunes; Carina Nebula; Nobel Prize in Physics

Oct 7, 2020 | Daily Space, Gemini North, Mars, Nebulae, Star Forming Region, Supermassive Black Holes

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript NOTE: Due to technical difficulties, we do not have a transcript for today’s show. We apologize. If one becomes available in the future, we will edit this post. Stay tuned after the news for an...

Gas giant found orbiting white dwarf star and a Wolf-Rayet binary produces dust

Sep 17, 2020 | Daily Space, Exoplanets, Gemini North, Guest Interview, Stars, The Sun, White Dwarfs

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript IMAGE: MIT professor Sara Seager Stay tuned after the Daily Space for a live interview with Prof. Sara Seager of MIT regarding this week’s news about phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus. With today’s...

Dual quasars; tidal disruption events; and a halo for Andromeda

Aug 31, 2020 | Daily Space, Galaxies, Gemini North, Quasar, Supermassive Black Holes

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript Today’s news is brought to you by my second cup of coffee because sometimes one is not enough. In fact, one is not enough for many things today, including supermassive black holes (SMBH). It’s...

Europa, Ganymede, and more pictures of Comet NEOWISE

Aug 26, 2020 | Comets, Daily Space, ESA, Gemini North, Jupiter, Our Solar System

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript Hi. It’s me again. You may be wondering why you are seeing me on a Tuesday and not a Thursday. Much of our team is swamped with setting up and managing the Planetary Science Institute’s retreat, which...

Short gamma-ray burst’s afterglow detected; young star found with spiral disk; red giants with starspots rotate quickly; machine learning helps predict survivability of planetary systems

Jul 14, 2020 | Cosmology, Daily Space, Exoplanets, Gemini North, Stars

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript The role of luck in science is something I sometimes feel we just don’t acknowledge enough. To do amazing things, you don’t just have to be one of the best in the world in terms of intellect and research...

1 Photobombing X-Ray Source & 2 Three-Body Problems

Sep 6, 2019 | Exoplanets, Gemini North, Gemini South, Kepler, NuSTAR, Supernovae

In this inaugural episode of the Daily Space, we take a look at an X-Ray source that rapidly appeared out of no where to photobomb images of a fading Supernova, and the creative solutions astronomers have found to to understand both a planet in a the tight binary...