Just How Fast is the Universe Expanding EXACTLY? ...and how do we know this?
We've known since Edwin Hubble's time that the universe has been expanding. What we've only recently learned (like, in the past 10 years or so) is that the universe is accelerating as it expands. Me...
1 Apr 20191h 1min
Life in the Universe? We May Be It!
I'm not convinced that life is everywhere in the cosmos. It is entirely possible, based on what we know today, that we are the only life there is. Anywhere. This episode is a brief discussion of th...
28 Mars 201935min
Women in Science w/ Carol Christian
Welcome to the first in a series of monthly discussions about topics in astronomy with Carol Christian, a colleague and friend of mine that has cohosted Astro Coffee Hangouts with me for years. This m...
21 Mars 20191h 11min
The Exolife Finder Telescope (ELF)
Members of the PLANETS Foundation are working hard to secure funding for a telescope specifically designed to look for life on other worlds. In this episode, we discuss the capabilities and design of...
11 Feb 201958min
The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT)
The next generation of world-class ground based observatories are being built right now. Among them, The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). Learn about this amazing telescope that will become the world...
23 Jan 20191h 1min
Building Huge Telescopes in Space Using Robots
Astronomy’s Future Will Be Built: New Capabilities to Assemble in Space the Largest Observatories. Scientific performance of telescopes depend strongly upon the observatory’s aperture, its capability ...
18 Jan 201958min
From the Moon to Mars
For decades advocates of the exploration of the Moon have argued that this will make possible subsequent exploration of Mars. But is this really true? Recently several dozen experts critically examine...
3 Jan 20191h 2min
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)
Did you know there is an effort underway to actually see the event horizon of a black hole? Right now, astronomers around the world are processing data taken earlier of the center of our galaxy in at...
21 Dec 20181h 6min
