Exocast-31b: with special guest Lee Billings, plus Waterworlds and exoplanet news
Jan 25, 2019
Show notes
On the 31th episode of Exocast:
Hugh is joined in the virtual exocast studio by Science Journalist Lee Billings a writer for Scientific American and author of “5 billion years of Solitude”.
Andrew dives into waterworlds inside and outside of our solar system and what we can learn about habitability.
Hannah takes a look at what exoplanet news had been released over the past months and highlights the great work done by furloughed US scientists who keep the Hubble Space Telescope alive and healthy.
And Lee, adopts the newly discovered Barnard’s Star b into the Exocast Adopted Planets family and promises to keep a good eye on it in the coming years for us.
Exocast-30b: with special guest Jessie Christiansen, plus ExoCup2018 analysis
Dec 13, 2018
Show notes
On the 30th episode of Exocast:
Andrew is joined in the virtual exocast studio by Dr Jessie Christiansen from Caltech/NExSci to talk a little about her work on exoplanet demographics, catalogs, public outreach, and citizen science.
Hannah provides an overview of last month’s #exocup, giving us a run down on the stats, the winners, losers, surprises and lessons learned.
Hugh takes a look at what other exoplanet news had been released over the past month.
And Jessie, to the chagrin of some and the appreciation of others, chose ‘the Next Planet’ as her adopted world – find out why and what she meant on the show.
Exocast-29b: with special guest Sarah Hörst, Exomoons, News, and Exocup2018
Oct 28, 2018
Show notesOn the 29th episode of Exocast:
Hannah is joined by Professor Sarah Hörst from Johns Hopkins University to talk about her lab and working on haze production for solar system planets and beyond.
Hugh discusses the concept of Exomoons following the recent potential discovery.
Andrew takes a look at the exoplanet news for the past month, and introduces the new format for the Exocup2018!
Exocast-28b: Special guest Daniel Angerhausen, SOFIA, technosignatures, news, HD 209458b
Oct 05, 2018
Show notesOn the 28th episode of Exocast, returning from a month’s break:
Hugh is joined by Daniel Angerhausen from the University of Bern/Blue Marble Space to talk exoplanet science with SOFIA and high-altitude balloon experiments.
Andrew introduces the concept of technosignatures in time for the first NASA Technosignatures Workshop, held at the end of September, and chats a little more with Daniel who will be taking part in the meeting.
Hannah takes a look at the exoplanet news for the past two months, and there’s a lot to discuss!
Exocast-27b: special guest Michael Gully-Santiago, K2, Exoplanet meetings, news, HAT-P-11b
Aug 02, 2018
Show notesIn the 27th episode of Exocast:
Michael Gully-Santiago joins Andrew for a chat about his work on instrumentation, and with the K2 guest observer office (https://keplerscience.arc.nasa.gov/).
Hannah reports back from the Exoplanets II meeting in Cambridge (https://www.exoplanetscience2.org/), where she takes to the conference floor to speak to the attendees about some of their favourite exoplanet facts.
Hugh covers all the exoplanet news and views from the last month;
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