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Main Chat on Discord: https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK Have you ever been to a star party? Ever wonder what goes on there? Is "what happens at the star party stays at the star party" true? Join us as we talk about all things amateur astronomy and get a glimpse into the fun of being at an event where everyone is looking up! Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy

Get this shirt here: https://sfsf.shop/support-deepastronomy Get ready for the avalanche folks! TESS is starting to return science data and already they've discovered two exoplanets. In this episode, I'll let you know more about them. Links for more reading: https://tess.mit.edu/observations/ https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.05967 https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07242 Consider supporting Space Fan News: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy to ensure you get current space & astronomy news each week! Space Fan News Theme by Stephen Dubois available for download here: http://ancienteyesmusic.com Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/ Like Space Fan News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceFanNews/

Lynx is one of four flagship concepts for the next great space telescope. NASA has funded a series of studies of four concepts that will in less than a year's time produce candidate designs for a major space observatory to begin construction later next decade. One of these has been dubbed Lynx, an x-ray “flagship" mission will probe some of the most explosive and high-energy objects in our Universe, and will provide insight into the seeds of black holes, the formation and evolution of galaxies and clusters of galaxies and even of the stars themselves. Please join our regular hosts Tony Darnell and Harley Thronson, as they discuss with Drs. Alexey Vikhlinin from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Feryal Ozel from the University of Arizona the science that will be revealed by a telescope investigating the x-ray universe. This is an informal, relaxed chat, so we hope that you can join us live and ask questions or leave comments for our guests. Learn more here: https://www.lynxobservatory.com Visuals from hangout available here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1E8WAxeRmkIDZzdxTCDVuwJ8Sw0U3IMDL Join our Discord Chat Server here: https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK

TESS the transiting exoplanet survey satellite, has taken its first science image. For those who don't know TESS is designed to look at small dips in brightness as planets pass between us and their host stars and will look at almost the entire sky over the course of 2 years. Consider supporting Space Fan News: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy to ensure you get current space & astronomy news each week! Space Fan News Theme by Stephen Dubois available for download here: http://ancienteyesmusic.com Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/ Like Space Fan News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceFanNews/ Please join our Discord server for 24/7 chat fun: https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK

Welcome to our inaugural Telescope Talk - Professsional Version Hangout! Today we learn about the Square Kilometer array being built in South Africa and Western Australia The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is an international effort to build the world’s largest radio telescope, with eventually over a square kilometre (one million square metres) of collecting area. The scale of the SKA represents a huge leap forward in both engineering and research & development towards building and delivering a unique instrument, with the detailed design and preparation now well under way. As one of the largest scientific endeavours in history, the SKA will bring together a wealth of the world’s finest scientists, engineers and policy makers to bring the project to fruition. Please join Tony Darnell and Christian Ready as they discuss this exciting ground-based professional observatory with Dr. Jeff Wagg and Daniel Hayden, both members of the SKA Consortium. Please join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK Download all graphics used here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1E1crgSBeU8TO-XvJ96wVA1FZlWMNhWbQ?usp=sharing

The study of planetary systems around other stars suggests that planets can migrate closer or farther from their parent star, not staying in the orbit where they originally formed. Traces of water on Mars suggests that it may have been wetter, and perhaps had warmer climates than today. Is it possible that Mars was once closer to the Sun and migrated outwards? The orbit of Venus seems like the right location for this to have occurred. Computer models help scientists determine how planetary systems can re-adjust themselves after formation. Join Tony Darnell and Carol Christian during Afternoon Astronomy Coffee on September 13 at 3PM Eastern time as they discuss with the investigators Darren Williams of Penn State University and collaborators Cole Brown and Quinn Bierbaum their study of our solar system and intriguing computer models used to understand the positioning and movement of planets in our home system. Here is the article on Space.com: https://www.space.com/41686-did-mars-once-dance-with-venus.html ADABS Link: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018AAS...23240504B/abstract Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Join our free Discord server for always-on chat action! https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK

Join us for a newly revamped hangout series on all things amateur astronomy! This week, we're talking with Tom Pickett, an advanced amateur with decades of experience that has been sharing his work to all who want to enjoy. Follow Tom on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/tom.pickett.92 Join our free Discord server for always-on chat action! https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK

In this episode, we’re going to take on the topic of quantum entanglement. That feature of quantum mechanics that Einstein called a spooky action at a distance. Well last month astronomers used very distant quasars to remove a possible bias in an experiment designed to test the idea of quantum entanglement. Link to this week story: https://phys.org/news/2018-08-physicists-demystify-einstein-spooky-science.html Consider supporting Space Fan News: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy to ensure you get current space & astronomy news each week! Space Fan News Theme by Stephen Dubois available for download here: http://ancienteyesmusic.com Space Fan News Background Music by Colour the Landscapes: https://colourthelandscapes.bandcamp.com/ Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/ Like Space Fan News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceFanNews/

For more than two decades, the series of NASA Great Observatories may have revealed more about the secrets of the cosmos than had been accomplished in the preceding history of astronomical exploration. The next great history-making observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), will soon continue this exciting scientific adventure. Please join our next Hangout, when our regular moderators, Tony Darnell and Harley Thronson, will discuss with Paul Geithner and Jonathan Gardner, both at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, current plans and schedule for this next step in humanity’s understanding of its place in the cosmos. Learn more about the science of JWST here: Cosmic Dawn: The Science of JWST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApSxA_B_uss Seeing Beyond: The James Webb Space Telescope: https://youtu.be/ah6KrqABzmk Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Join our free Discord server for always-on chat action! https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK

I've been doing these posts long enough to start getting questions, today I'll take one about where to start searching. There are several good websites I'll go over in this stream: http://www.aura-astronomy.org/jobs/ https://jobregister.aas.org/ https://nasajobs.nasa.gov/default.htm http://stsci.edu/opportunities There are others, but this is a good place to start. Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/ Like Space Fan News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceFanNews/ Follow DeepAstronomy on Google+ http://google.com/+DeepAstronomy http://google.com/+TonyDarnell We also have a great Google+ Community, come share your thoughts and join the discussion! https://plus.google.com/communities/109849939648748938781

Is climate change inevitable on worlds with technological civilizations? Is planetary feedback from such a civilization a great filter? Our guest Dr Adam Frank will discuss his paper on the effects of planetary feedback on any possible alien civilizations out there. Could it be possible that many (or even all) technological civilizations out there must face the consequences of climate change brought on by their technology? Does this prevent galactic colonization? Please join Tony Darnell, Carol Christian, and Adam Frank as we explore this very interesting topic. We invite you to interact with us as well and provide questions and comments! Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Link to our press release: http://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/astrobiology-alien-apocalypse-can-any-civilization-make-it-through-climate-change-322232/ Link to the paper: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/ast.2017.1671 Light of the Stars Book: http://rochester.edu/news/adam-frank-light-of-the-stars/ Join our free Discord server for always-on chat action! https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK

Are we alone? How unique is our Earth? Should the hunt for life beyond Earth uncover a multitude of habitable worlds and few (if any) inhabited ones, humanity would begin to understand just how lonely and fragile our situation is. On the other hand, if our hunt yields a true diversity of inhabited worlds, then we would learn something fundamental about the commonality of life in the cosmos. Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Music Used: Stephen Dubois: http://ancienteyesmusic.com/discography/our_invisible_universe/ Echoes of Time v2 by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1300030 Artist: http://incompetech.com/

The International Space Station (ISS) has been the first successful step in long-duration human operations in space. If astronauts are to travel eventually to Moon, Mars, and deep space, technical capabilities must be developed beyond those demonstrated on ISS. This is one of the priority goals of the Gateway, a facility and human operations site in the vicinity of the Moon, which in addition offers multiple opportunities for scientific programs that require the presence of astronauts. Please join our Hangout, when our regular moderators, Tony Darnell and Harley Thronson will discuss with Nicole Herrmann and Ben Bussey, both of NASA Headquarters, current plans and schedule for this next step in humanity’s journey into space. Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Join our free Discord server for always-on chat action! https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK

In this episode, is it possible to find exoplanets using their gravitational wave signatures? It turns out it is possible if the orbit of the planet is close enough and short enough to the host star, in other words, if the gravitational luminosity (I love that term) is bright enough. So what kind of exoplanets can we expect to find using gravitational waves and from where? Read Paper here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.04877.pdf Kepler study here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.06488.pdf Get a cool Deep Astronomy T-shirt here: https://sfsf.shop/support-deepastronomy/ Consider supporting Space Fan News: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy to ensure you get current space & astronomy news each week! Space Fan News Theme by Stephen Dubois available for download here: http://ancienteyesmusic.com Space Fan News Background Music by Colour the Landscapes: https://colourthelandscapes.bandcamp.com/ Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/ Like Space Fan News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceFanNews/

Super energetic neutrinos can be formed in exotic places, for example the accelerators in the core of galactic supermassive black holes. The IceCube neutrino detector array was built and deployed at the South Pole. The detectors are designed and positioned to find specific particles in a background of myriad charged particles bombarding the Earth. A particular event called IceCube-170922 was detected with an energy of 300 trillion electron volts and pointed back to a specific point in the sky. Join Tony Darnell and Carol Christian during Afternoon Astronomy Coffee on Thursday, 9 August 2018 at 3:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (19:00 UTC) as they discuss with the investigators, including Erik Blaufussi (University of Maryland), how IceCube works, what the researchers hope to find, and the detection of IceCube-10922. Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Join our free Discord server for always-on chat action! https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK

Let’s talk about ExoMoons, you know, those moons in orbit around other planets around other stars in our galaxy. Is it possible that they might be better harbors for life? Even in our own solar system, the moons Europa and Enceladus look the most promising, even better than Mars. So, what about elsewhere? Could life be better found on an exomoon around and exoplanet around another star? Link to paper talked about in this episode: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.03370 Consider supporting Space Fan News: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy to ensure you get current space & astronomy news each week! Deep Astronomy tshirts on sfsf.shop: https://sfsf.shop/support-deepastronomy/ Space Fan News Theme by Stephen Dubois available for download here: http://ancienteyesmusic.com Space Fan News Background Music by Colour the Landscapes: https://colourthelandscapes.bandcamp.com/ Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/ Like Space Fan News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceFanNews/

We are still coming up with a name, but this hangout will introduce a new hangout series on Deep Astronomy that will highlight the advances, technology and discoveries in astronomy from ground-based observatories around the world. Tony Darnell and Christian Ready will introduce the hangout and take your comments and questions. Check out Christian's channel Launch Pad Astronomy: https://www.youtube.com/user/christianready Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Join our free Discord server for always-on chat action! https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK

After a successful launch on April 18th of this year onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the next generation of space telescopes to look for exoplanets, in our galaxy, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has completed its commissioning phase and is now ready to take observations. TESS promises to expand our catalog of exoplanets and bring humanity a little closer to finding out if we are alone in the galaxy. Consider supporting Space Fan News: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy to ensure you get current space & astronomy news each week! Space Fan News Theme by Stephen Dubois available for download here: http://ancienteyesmusic.com Space Fan News Background Music by Colour the Landscapes: https://colourthelandscapes.bandcamp.com/ Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Listen to me on the FTW Podcast Here: https://youtu.be/JmBH5oxAg94 https://www.spreaker.com/user/ftw-podcast/ftw-10-looking-up-with-tony-darnell Get Your TESS tshirt here: https://teespring.com/stores/deep-astronomy

Although cataclysmic explosions and the fiery furnaces of massive stars are attention-grabbers, many of the most critically important events and physical processes in astronomy take place in the coolest objects in the cosmos: regions within which stars and planets are born and the seeds of life are planted, as just one example. Please join our hosts, Tony Darnell and Harley Thronson, as they discuss with Drs. Margaret Meixner of the Space Telescope Science Institute and David Leisawitz from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the science that can be revealed by an observatory operating at the longest infrared wavelengths. ORIGINS Space Telescope websites: https://origins.ipac.caltech.edu/ https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/firs/ Telecons mentioned by Margaret are here: https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/firs/events/ Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Join our free Discord server for always-on chat action! https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK

Consider supporting Space Fan News: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy to ensure you get current space & astronomy news each week! In this episode, we’ve all heard about the delays and cost overruns of NASA’s flagship observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope. It is over budget by a lot and over a decade late from its original scheduled launch date. But will congress approve the increase? What impact will these delays have on everything else NASA is trying to do? Well on casualty may be WFIRST, the follow on project to JWST. Space Fan News Theme by Stephen Dubois available for download here: http://ancienteyesmusic.com Space Fan News Background Music by Colour the Landscapes: https://colourthelandscapes.bandcamp.com/ Cool DA T-shirts: https://sfsf.shop/support-deepastronomy/

While our search is still in its infancy, we haven't yet found any obvious signs of intelligent life in our galaxy. One reason could be that any advanced civilization out there may not have made it past a stage in its development where climate change became an issue. As technologies advance and use more resources on a planet, care needs to be taken that the planet's carrying capacity is not overwhelmed. This could lead to the demise of a civilization and prevent it from expanding to the stars. Our guests for this hangout have done some modelling on the possible consequences of advancing technology and its effects on the host planet. Please join Tony Darnell and Carol Christian as they discuss this interesting work with Adam Frank University of Rochester Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback, U Rochester and Lindsey Valich, the team members of this recent study. Links t the press release and paper: http://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/astrobiology-alien-apocalypse-can-any-civilization-make-it-through-climate-change-322232/ https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1671 Really good video on the downfall of Easter Island: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6aEaMiDeUw Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Join our free Discord server for always-on chat action! https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK

Consider supporting Space Fan News: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy to ensure you get current space & astronomy news each week! In this episode, an astronomer from the University of Rochester has recently published a paper that studies whether a civilization on the level of ours could survive self-imposed changes to the planet’s climate due to rapidly expanding technological progress. You’ve heard me talk a lot about great filters on this channel so you’ll want to stick around for this story. Space Fan News Theme by Stephen Dubois available for download here: http://ancienteyesmusic.com Space Fan News Background Music by Colour the Landscapes: https://colourthelandscapes.bandcamp.com/ Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/ Like Space Fan News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceFanNews/ Link to this week's story: http://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/astrobiology-alien-apocalypse-can-any-civilization-make-it-through-climate-change-322232/ https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1671

No one is any longer surprised at the number of sophisticated robots in a modern factory, although many people may be surprised at how robots are becoming an attractive option for complex operations in space, including construction, servicing, and rescuing of satellites. Please join our Hangout, when our regular moderators, Tony Darnell and Harley Thronson will discuss with Hsiao Smith (NASA GSFC) and Al Tadros (SSL) recent advances and the exciting future of space robotics. Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Join our free Discord server for always-on chat action! https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK

Eventually, everyone wants to take pictures of the night sky with their telescopes. It's not exactly a beginner activity, but it is one of the most rewarding feelings when you've processed an image you took yourself. We also live in an age when you can processing images directly from spacecraft orbiting other worlds in our solar system. There is also a multitude of citizen science projects that we can all get involved with. Please join Tony Darnell, Adam Synergy Smith, John Suffill and Alexander Reinders as we discuss some of the amazing possibilities open to amateurs with our guest Jason Major, one of the foremost science communicators and imaging enthusiast. Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Join our free Discord server for always-on chat action! https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK

Eta Carinae, is a well known massive, luminous star system located about 7,500 light-years away from the Earth. It is in the southern constellation of Carina, and produced an outburst in the 19th century making it the second-brightest star in the sky. Since then, Eta Car has been well studied but still it holds fascination for astronomers studying explosive star systems. It has two massive stars that come very close to each other every 5.5 years. The system has intense outflows which accelerate charged particles to an amazing speed and can produce energy bursts that can be observed by many telescopes. Studies with the NuSTAR space telescope recently have helped characterize the outbursts and the types of particles sent our way Join Tony Darnell and Carol Christian during Afternoon Astronomy Coffee on July 12 at 3PM Eastern time as they discuss with the investigators, including Kenji Hamaguchi of Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and U. of Maryland (UMBC) and Michael Corcoran of GSFC and Catholic University and Christopher Russell (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) and how they probed Eta Car with NuSTAR to understand the system, and they will describe this interesting NASA mission that probes the high energy universe. Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Join our free Discord server for always-on chat action! https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK Press Release for today's Topic: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2018-160&rn=news.xml&rst=7184

Consider supporting Space Fan News: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy to ensure you get current space & astronomy news each week! Well, yesterday I told you the good news: NASA’s Juno Mission was extended until 2022 to keep looking at Jupiter. Today, some sad news: NASA has put the Kepler Space Telescope, also known as K2 into safe mode because it is running out of fuel. The last days of the incredible Kepler mission are here. Space Fan News Theme by Stephen Dubois available for download here: http://ancienteyesmusic.com Space Fan News Background Music by Colour the Landscapes: https://colourthelandscapes.bandcamp.com/ Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy http://spacenews.com/kepler-in-safe-mode-amid-concerns-spacecraft-is-running-out-of-fuel/ https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/nasa-s-kepler-spacecraft-pauses-science-observations-to-download-science-data https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/6/17541886/nasa-kepler-fuel-safe-mode-life https://keplerscience.arc.nasa.gov/k2-fields.html

Consider supporting Space Fan News: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy to ensure you get current space & astronomy news each week! In this episode, NASA extends Juno’s mission to Jupiter, a mission that has shown us some amazing features of the largest planet in our solar system and is also teaching us a lot about what lies beneath those stunning cloud formations. Space Fan News Theme by Stephen Dubois available for download here: http://ancienteyesmusic.com Space Fan News Background Music by Colour the Landscapes: https://colourthelandscapes.bandcamp.com/ Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/ Like Space Fan News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceFanNews/

Detailed scenarios for human exploration of Mars have been developed and debated for decades, although many of them have been too technically challenging or unambiguously unaffordable. However, are there scenarios that are specifically developed to be affordable and less technically challenging? We’ll see . . . Please join our Hangout, when our regular moderators, Tony Darnell and Harley Thronson will discuss with John Connolly (NASA JSC) and Joe Cassady (Aerojet Rocketdyne) the results of recent technical workshops that explored how human missions to Mars could be made more achievable, affordable, and sustainable. Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Join our free Discord server for always-on chat action! https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK

In this episode, the verdict is in. After reading and responding to the independent review of the James Webb Space Telescope mission, NASA announced today a new launch date and an updated cost analysis. It looks like JWST will launch on March 30, 2021 and will cost an additional billion dollars, bringing the total cost of the mission to 9.5 billion dollars. Read the Independent Review Board Report and NASA's response here: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/webb_irb_report_and_response_0.pdf Consider supporting Space Fan News: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy to ensure you get current space & astronomy news each week! Space Fan News Theme by Stephen Dubois available for download here: http://ancienteyesmusic.com Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy

How would you like to own a telescope that has the same design as some of the world's best observatories? The off-axis telescope is unique in that there is no secondary obstruction to mess up your image but the mirror configuration is not easy to construct. In this hangout, we'll talk with a group in Germany who has produced smaller versions of telescopes that will be used in larger telescopes like the DKIST solar telescope and other really cool observatories. Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Join our free Discord server for always-on chat action! https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK

Female and male astronauts adapt differently to space where small changes have significant impact. These issues are extremely important as we plan for exploration to the Moon and Mars as well as for commercial space travel. Additionally, lessons learned from the space program can improve our health on Earth. Please join our Hangout, when our regular moderators, Tony Darnell and Harley Thronson will discuss with Bette Siegel, PhD (NASA Headquarters) and Saralyn Mark, MD (President, iGIANT® and former Sr Advisor, NASA) the latest research on the impact of sex and gender on adaptation to long-duration space flight. Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Join our free Discord server for always-on chat action! https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK

Naturalist and author Bernie Taylor presents an origin to modern astronomy in European Paleolithic caves from 34,000 years ago that connects with global myths of hunter-gatherers and the ancients in the Mediterranean region. Taylor proposes that astronomy was developed to pass on timeless myths and cultural traditions among prehistoric hunter-gathers. He will explore deep sources to Ptolemy's Almagest and the hero's journey monomyth of Joseph Campbell as popularized in the Star Wars movie series, and test the precession of the equinoxes against the Paleolithic record. Watch video presentations of the slides we're discussing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz142DZL2ZQ Get the book Before Orion here: https://www.amazon.com/shop/deepastronomy Join our free Discord server for always-on chat action! https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK

Evidence for dark matter has been known for some time, and it is expected that it interacts with the familiar luminous matter that we see in the universe in some normal way. Yet, although dark matter seems to account for the fact that galaxies are able to hold together with gravity, it does not behave as normal matter in other respects. It seems to be evident in gravitational lenses, yet we cannot observe it directly. Otherwise dark matter seems to only weakly interact with ordinary matter. A recent scientific study of radio data was interpreted to be evidence for the formation of stars, and further, a signal of interaction between normal and dark matter. The physics of the situation appears tricky though, and a team of scientists has proposed that maybe dark matter actually has a tiny bit of electric charge. This would be remarkable and has some interesting consequences. Join Tony Darnell and Carol Christian during Afternoon Astronomy Coffee on June 14 at 3PM Eastern time as they discuss with the investigators, Avi Loeb, Cora Dvorkin, and Julian Munoz (Harvard University) this amazing idea and the implications their model has for understanding dark matter and the make up of the universe. Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/ Like Space Fan News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceFanNews/ Follow DeepAstronomy on Google+ http://google.com/+DeepAstronomy http://google.com/+TonyDarnell We also have a great Google+ Community, come share your thoughts and join the discussion! https://plus.google.com/communities/109849939648748938781

Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy After a bit of a haitus, we're back. We've retooled a little bit and we're going to try a new format. Today, Tony, Adam, John and Alex will be answering questions and talking about the night sky. Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/ Like Space Fan News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceFanNews/ Follow DeepAstronomy on Google+ http://google.com/+DeepAstronomy http://google.com/+TonyDarnell We also have a great Google+ Community, come share your thoughts and join the discussion! https://plus.google.com/communities/109849939648748938781

Consider supporting Space Fan News: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy to ensure you get current space & astronomy news each week! In this episode the story this week comes from my alma mater, the University of Colorado at Boulder with a story that has many good and interesting things about it: it’s from CU, there may not actually be a Planet 9 that’s causing the strange outer solar system orbits, and the major work behind this study was done by a CU undergrad - that’s right, and undergraduate student is shedding light on a difficult problem. Space Fan News Theme by Stephen Dubois available for download here: http://ancienteyesmusic.com Space Fan News Background Music by Colour the Landscapes: https://colourthelandscapes.bandcamp.com/ Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/ Like Space Fan News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceFanNews/

With the U.S. and NASA as leaders in human space exploration, much of the rest of the world is starting to make plans to join in as we look to the Moon and Mars. The Global Exploration Roadmap reaffirms the interest of 14 space agencies to expand human presence into the Solar System, with the surface of Mars as a common driving goal. It reflects a coordinated international effort to prepare for space exploration missions beginning with the International Space Station (ISS) and continuing to the lunar vicinity, the lunar surface, then on to Mars. The expanded group of agencies demonstrates the growing interest in space exploration and the importance of cooperation to realize individual and common goals and objectives. Please join our Hangout, when our regular moderator, Tony Darnell, will discuss how plans are being developed for international programs in human space flight with Kathy Laurini and Ryan Whitley, both of NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Read NASA Roadmap document here: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/ger_2018_small_mobile.pdf Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/ Like Space Fan News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceFanNews/

Consider supporting Space Fan News: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy to ensure you get current space & astronomy news each week! astronomers from Harvard are proposing a new model of dark matter that help explain some observations taken with radio telescopes as part of the EDGES project: the Experiment to Detect the Global Epoch of Reionization Signature. The observations were strange and astronomers are proposing that, to help explain them, perhaps a fraction of dark matter has an electric charge. Space Fan News Theme by Stephen Dubois available for download here: http://ancienteyesmusic.com Space Fan News Background Music by Colour the Landscapes: https://colourthelandscapes.bandcamp.com/ Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/ Like Space Fan News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceFanNews/

Consider supporting Space Fan News: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy to ensure you get current space & astronomy news each week! If you’re a space fan like me (and I know you are cuz you’re here), then you’re very interested in keeping up to date on the latest from the Event Horizon Telescope. This is a worldwide collaboration of astronomers and observatories from around the world that’s using the Earth as a primary mirror in a telescope designed to directly image the black hole at the center of our galaxy known as Sagittarius A Star. Link to latest EHT Paper: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aabe2e Space Fan News Theme by Stephen Dubois available for download here: http://ancienteyesmusic.com Space Fan News Background Music by Colour the Landscapes: https://colourthelandscapes.bandcamp.com/ Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/ Like Space Fan News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceFanNews/

Consider supporting Space Fan News: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy to ensure you get current space & astronomy news each week! In this episode, astronomers respond to the claim made by the authors of the Nature paper stating the galaxy known as NGC1052-DF2 - a galaxy claimed to have no dark matter - by offering alternative explanations and expressing frustration that such extraordinary claims were made based on such flimsy evidence. Link to the response on astro-ph: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04817 Space Fan News Theme by Stephen Dubois available for download here: http://ancienteyesmusic.com Space Fan News Background Music by Colour the Landscapes: https://colourthelandscapes.bandcamp.com/ Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/ Like Space Fan News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceFanNews/

Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Astronomers were enthusiastic but cautious about the Hubble observations that suggested Europa had water plumes ejected from its icy surface. Every telescope observation of these eruptions was at the limit of detection. Then, it was suggested that that a thermal signature had been recorded by the Galileo satellite years before, right at the corresponding position on Europa's surface. Now, digging through the archives of Galileo, a team has carefully re-analyzed the data and discovered that the satellite may actually have flown through a plume. Europa's icy surface likely is a crust over a global ocean. Through cracks in that surface, water can spew out in a huge plume. As a result of a re-analysis of Galileo's measurements combined with a model including constraints of the plumes observed by Hubble, it appears as though Galileo flew through a similar plume in 1997. Thus it seems there is strong independent evidence of the presence of plumes at Europa. Join Tony Darnell and Carol Christian during Afternoon Astronomy Coffee on May 24 at 3PM Eastern time as they discuss with the investigators, Xianzhe Jia (U Michigan), Margaret Kivelson and Krishan Khurana (UCLA), and William Kurth (U Iowa) how they combed the Galileo archive and what their analysis yielded. Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/old-data-reveal-new-evidence-of-europa-plumes Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy

Surprisingly, it may be easier to get to Mars orbit one day with astronauts than it will be to actually land: safely landing on the Red Planet poses some major challenges yet to be overcome. So far, many Mars landers and rovers have used a variety of technologies to keep from crashing onto the Martian surface, everything from protective inflatable bags to retro-firing rocket and parachutes. It is far from clear however, what technology and methods will be used to safely land humans. Please join our Hangout, when our regular moderator, Tony Darnell, will discuss the present and future of landing on Mars with Tara Polsgrove (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center) and Michelle Munk (NASA Langley Research Center).

Astronomers believe there is an undiscovered super-Earth Sized planet lurking in our outer solar system. If it exists, then astronomers think it would have an estimated mass of ten Earths, a diameter two to four times that of Earth, and an elongated orbit lasting approximately 15,000 years. So far, efforts to find this planet have failed. They are calling it Planet Nine and astronomers are seriously trying to find it. Our guests today have written a paper outlining efforts to locate this planet using WISE and NEOWISE data. They think that Planet Nine, if it exists, should be self-luminous enough and potentially bright enough in the near infrared that the NEOWISE telescope should be able to see it. Today we’ll talk about those efforts along with what WISE and NEOWISE is, why we think Planet Nine is there in the first place, and whether or not it will have any adverse effect on the Earth anytime soon. Scientists are searching for this illusive body in our solar system using all the data they can find and obtain with observatories including those in space. It is speculated that this planet orbits the Sun very far out in the solar system, at hundreds of times the distance from the Earth to the Sun (one Astronomical Unit). It could be that the planet shines on its own in the infrared, making it perfect for the Wide Field Infrared Explorer (WISE) satellite. A clever methodology by scientists is aimed to detect very faint moving objects. What is the result? Join Tony Darnell and Carol Christian during Afternoon Astronomy Coffee on May 10 at 3PM Eastern time as they discuss with Aaron Meisner (UC Berkeley), Ben Bromley (U of Utah), and Scott Kenyon (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) their deep search for Planet Nine and what they found. Link to today's Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.04950 Visit Backyard Worlds on Zooniverse: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/marckuchner/backyard-worlds-planet-9 This posting fixes audio issues from the Live Hangout

Consider supporting Space Fan News: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy to ensure you get current space & astronomy news each week! In this episode, more bad news coming out of the James Webb Space Telescope Mission, specifically, Northrop Grumman’s facilities in Redondo Beach California. Apparently stuff is falling off the sun shield and engineers are trying to figure out the cause. Link to this story: http://spacenews.com/jwst-suffers-new-problem-during-spacecraft-testing/ Space Fan News Theme by Stephen Dubois available for download here: http://ancienteyesmusic.com Space Fan News Background Music by Colour the Landscapes: https://colourthelandscapes.bandcamp.com/ Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/ Like Space Fan News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceFanNews/

Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Some propulsion technologies proposed to take astronauts and future generations of robotic explorers to Mars seem almost science fiction. But that’s hardly the case and advanced propulsion capabilities are under active development in laboratories around the world and are being deployed today. Please join our Hangout, when our regular moderators, Tony Darnell and Harley Thronson will discuss the present and future of space propulsion with Franklin Chang-Diaz (Ad Astra Rocket Company), Dan Herman (NASA Glenn Research Center), and Joseph Cassady (Aeroject Rocketdyne). Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/ Like Space Fan News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceFanNews/

Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://deepastronomy.com/DeepAstronomy Have you ever wondered what the difference was between an astronomer and an astrophysicist? You're not alone. I get this question all the time and I'll have the answer for you in today's Deep Astronomy vlog post. Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/ Like Space Fan News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceFanNews/

Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy The recently launched Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was designed to find Earth - sized planets around bright stars nearby. Candidates will be observed from ground based telescopes to verify that planets have been uncovered. Also questions such as "What are the characteristics of those planets?" and "What kind of stars have planets" are key to the TESS mission. When such satellites are launched, significant work goes into understanding what the probability of success is in finding the target objects. To predict accurately all the observational parameters of the satellite are considered and analysis is done, and in this case, to estimate the number and types of planets that might be found. Join Tony Darnell and Carol Christian during Afternoon Astronomy Coffee on April 26 at 3PM Eastern time as they discuss with Joshua Pepper (Lehigh University) and Thomas Barclay (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), how their theoretical models are used to predict what TESS might find. Read Paper here: TESS expected yield https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.05050.pdf

Consider supporting Space Fan News: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy to ensure you get current space & astronomy news each week! In this episode, on this day of the momentous second data release of the Gaia spacecraft, astronomers from the University of Uppsala in Sweden have been working on a way to find Dyson Spheres and other megastructures that may be around other stars in our galaxy that would provide our first confirmation of other civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy. Paper "SETI WITH GAIA: THE OBSERVATIONAL SIGNATURES OF NEARLY COMPLETE DYSON SPHERES" https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.08351.pdf Dyson Sphere Art by Adam Burn: https://adamburn.deviantart.com/art/SHield-World-Construction-118068881 Gaia DR2 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VINs-JcNmKs Space Fan News Theme by Stephen Dubois available for download here: http://ancienteyesmusic.com Space Fan News Background Music by Colour the Landscapes: https://colourthelandscapes.bandcamp.com/ Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/ Like Space Fan News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceFanNews/

Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy In just a few short months, NASA will launch the Parker Solar Probe, a mission designed to get the closest we've ever been to the Sun. NASA's historic Parker Solar Probe mission will revolutionize our understanding of the Sun, where changing conditions can propagate out into the solar system, affecting Earth and other worlds. The Parker Solar Probe will travel through the Sun’s atmosphere, closer to the surface than any spacecraft before it, facing brutal heat and radiation conditions — and ultimately providing humanity with the closest-ever observations of a star. Please join Tony Darnell and Dr. Harley Thronson and discuss this amazing mission with members of the Parker Solar Probe team. Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/ Like Space Fan News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceFanNews/

Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Quickly setting up to watch the TESS Launch Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/ Like Space Fan News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceFanNews/ Follow DeepAstronomy on Google+ http://google.com/+DeepAstronomy http://google.com/+TonyDarnell We also have a great Google+ Community, come share your thoughts and join the discussion! https://plus.google.com/communities/109849939648748938781

Consider supporting Space Fan News: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy to ensure you get current space & astronomy news each week! in this episode, we received some bad news from NASA regarding the venerable Kepler/K2 mission: it is running out of fuel and preparations are being made for the final end - for real this time - of the mission that showed us there were more planets in our galaxy than stars. Space Fan News Theme by Stephen Dubois available for download here: http://ancienteyesmusic.com Space Fan News Background Music by Colour the Landscapes: https://colourthelandscapes.bandcamp.com/ Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/ Like Space Fan News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceFanNews/