99: Photons from exoplanets with Dr. Meshkat
Dr. Tiffany Meshkat describes direct imaging of exoplanets, which astronomers have used to discover enormous, young planets. She also talks about WFIRST, a mission under development that would be able...
28 Touko 201719min
98: A place on Earth as dry as Mars with Dr. Azua-Bustos
Dr. Armando Azua-Bustos talks about how he discovered the driest place on Earth— a region in the Atacama Desert not far from where he grew up. He explains how he collects and studies microbial life th...
21 Touko 201720min
97: If a glacier falls in a fjord… with Dr. Koppes
Dr. Michele Koppes stops by to talk about her glacier research on planet Earth. She describes how a melting glacier triggered a staggeringly large landslide in 2015, and how glaciers can match even hu...
14 Touko 201722min
96: Vega, dust, and a giant inflatable bumblebee with Dr. Ciardi
Dr. David Ciardi talks about Vega, a bright star that's "been a part of human lore forever." Dr. Ciardi and his colleagues discovered that Vega has a nearby ring of dust, implying the presence of plan...
7 Touko 201717min
95: Asteroid hunting software with John Dailey
John Dailey explains how he uses his software engineering skills to discover asteroids at IPAC/Caltech. He helps solve problems inherent to working with astronomical data, such as the challenge of rea...
30 Huhti 201716min
94: Seven hundred new craters on Mars with Dr. Daubar
Dr. Ingrid Daubar stops by to talk about HiRISE, a camera on a Mars-orbiting spacecraft that takes amazing images of the Martian surface. She explains how she uses these images to search for fresh cra...
23 Huhti 201714min
93: Companionable Jupiters with Marta Bryan
Marta Bryan shares her new results on exoplanets! She explains how she tested a theory of hot jupiter formation, and how she figured out that planet rotation rates are likely set early on in the plane...
16 Huhti 201721min
92: When there's dust there's planets with Dr. Patel
Dr. Rahul Patel describes his search for undiscovered disks of dust around other stars. He explains how looking for fainter and fainter debris disks may bring us closer to discovering a planetary syst...
9 Huhti 201715min
