Planets Under Our Feet: The Caves on Earth, Mars, and Beyond (with Dr. Penelope Boston)
New exploration indicates that caves may be more common on rocky and icy worlds in our Solar System than we have thought in the past. Caves below the Earth show us a very different planet than the fam...
26 Mar 20221h 23min
Dark Star: The Invisible Universe of Brown Dwarfs (with Dr. Adam Burgasser)
In this illustrated talk, Dr. Burgasser explains what happens when a newly forming star doesn't have "what it takes" to produce energy in its core in an ongoing way. This results in "failed stars" or...
15 Mar 20221h 26min
Charon, Pluto’s Companion: What We’re Learning from New Horizons (with Dr. Ross Beyer)
Pluto’s large moon Charon turned out to be far more interesting than astronomers expected. Pluto was the star when the New Horizons probe flew by, but the features on Charon’s surface tell a fascinat...
1 Mar 20221h 16min
Living with a Star: A Life-friendly Planetary Environment (with Dr. Michelle Thaller)
In this nontechnical talk, illustrated with the latest images and video, Dr. Thaller asks what makes a world habitable? What creates and sustains an environment friendly to life? She then discusses ...
17 Feb 20221h 25min
Beyond: Our Future in Space (with Dr. Chris Impey)
Decades after we last set foot on the Moon, and several years after the Space Shuttle was retired, space activity is finally leaving the doldrums. Permanent bases on the Moon and Mars are now within ...
30 Jan 20221h 32min
Ocean Worlds in Our Solar System (with Dr. Kevin Hand)
Where is the best place to find living life beyond Earth? It may be that the small, ice-covered moons of Jupiter and Saturn harbor some of the most habitable real estate in our Solar System. Life love...
7 Jan 20221h 33min
Meet the Neighbors: Exploring Planets Orbiting Nearby Stars (with Dr. Courtney Dressing)
The NASA Kepler mission revealed that our Galaxy is teeming with planetary systems and that Earth-sized planets are common. However, most of the planets detected by Kepler orbit stars too faint to pe...
21 Des 20211h 5min
The Biggest Sky Survey Ever Undertaken: Exploring the Universe with the Rubin Observatory (with Dr. Phil Marshall)
The Vera Rubin Observatory will house a survey telescope that will image the night sky faster and deeper than ever before. Its camera, at 3.6 Gigapixels, will be the biggest digital camera ever built....
14 Des 20211h 9min
