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Future in Space Hangouts are sponsored by the American Astronautical Society: https://astronautical.org NASA has for decades been assessing options to utilize the resources available in space – often on the Moon and Mars – to sustain long-duration human operations. It will be prohibitively expensive to send from Earth to either location sufficient resources for astronauts to carry out priority mission goals, to say nothing of eventual settlement. With NASA’s human space flight program focusing on lunar operations and technologies to enable eventual human missions to Mars, in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) has become a high priority in NASA’s technology investment plans. Join Tony Darnell and Harley Thronson as they discuss the current status of ISRU with Jerry Sanders and Stephen Hoffman, both of NASA Johnson Space Center. Future in Space Hangouts are endorsed by the American Astronomical Society and the American Astronautical Society. 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

Telescope Talk Hangouts are sponsored by OPT Telescopes: https://bit.ly/2SwhmVB Eyepieces are essential components of your telescope. They allow you to actually focus the light coming through your telescope and provide key optics for getting a good visual image. There are so many different types of eyepieces that it can be very confusing to know which type to buy, what kind is best for different situations and what the tradeoffs are for various designs. Please join Tony Darnell and Ian Lauer as they discuss eyepieces with a giant in the field: aavid Nager of Televue, a company making some of the best eyepieces ever made. 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/ Join our free Discord server for always-on chat action! https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK

Telescope Talk Hangouts are sponsored by OPT Telescopes: https://bit.ly/2SwhmVB The largest ground-based telescope is now being built on the top of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) is a new class of extremely large telescopes that will allow us to see deeper into space and observe cosmic objects with unprecedented sensitivity. The TMT International Observatory LLC (TIO), a non-profit organization, was established in May 2014 to carry out the construction and operation phases of the TMT Project. The Members of TIO are Caltech, the University of California, the National Institutes of Natural Sciences of Japan, the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Department of Science and Technology of India, and the National Research Council (Canada); the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) is a TIO Associate. Major funding has been provided by the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation. Please join Tony Darnell and Christian Ready as they discuss the status of this project with Dr. Christophe Dumas, TMT Observatory Scientist & Head Operations Department. Sub to Launchpad astronomy here: https://youtube.com/ChristianReady Learn more about TMT here: https://www.tmt.org/ Visuals used in the hangout are available here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=12bggYk34e19XuVdWHD4B5F2SkSM4rw1l 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/ Join our free Discord server for always-on chat action! https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK

Space Fan News is Sponsored by OPT Telescopes and Patreon Patrons: https://optcorp.com/?utm_source=deepastronomy&utm_medium=telescopetalk&utm_campaign=home In this episode NASA successfully puts another lander on the Red Planet. Earlier this week, the Mars InSight Lander made it to the Martian surface intact with some help from little MarCOs: dedicated CubeSats that monitored the lander and relayed telemetry on the descent. 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/

Subscribe too PZ Myers Channel Here: https://www.youtube.com/user/pzamyers The origin of life on Earth is still being hotly studied. Is life inevitable? If conditions are right, does life in fact, pop right up? Please join Tony Darnell and PZ Myers as they discuss this topic in detail. 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

Telescope Talk Hangouts are sponsored by OPT Telescopes: https://bit.ly/2SwhmVB Sub to Launchpad Astronomy: https://www.youtube.com/ChristianReady The Large Synoptic Sky Survey is one of the most ambitious ground-based astronomy surveys ever conceived. The 8.4 meter special three mirror design will provide extremely large field of view for imaging the entire sky every few days. The survey will last 10 years and deliver a 200 petabyte set of images and data products that will address some of the most pressing questions about the structure and evolution of the universe and the objects in it. Please join Tony Darnell and Christian Ready as they discuss this exciting project with Frossie Economou and Dr. Yusra AlSayyad of the LSST Consortium and get the latest info on this amazing project! Learn More about LSST Here: https:lsst.org Visuals and graphics from hangout here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iP24CfqyMOIxDhyOlkaPbdPb1kTW3Cfj/view?usp=sharing 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/ Join our free Discord server for always-on chat action! https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK

Located in the constellation Ophiuchus, there is an unremarkable red dwarf star some six light years away. After the three stars of the Alpha Centauri system, this is the closest star to us. Known as Barnard’s star, it is invisible to the unaided eye. It’s name comes from it’s discoverer E.E. Barnard, who in 1916 noticed that this star was wobbling back and forth by some 10.3 arcseconds every year. Astronomers thought there must be some unseen companion orbiting around it, but for over a century, couldn’t find it. Was it a dim star? Or was it a planet? Why was this star wobbling? Now, we know. If you like this content, please consider supporting Deep Astronomy on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Listen to Deep Astronomy on Anchor: https://Anchor.fm/DeepAstronomy Created with Stellarium Open Source Software: http://www.stellarium.org/ Original Music - Mark C. Petersen, Lochness Productions: https://www.lochnessproductions.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/

What gear do professional astronomers use that is available commercially? OPT Telescopes has a professional division dedicated to the professional astronomer. But that doesn't mean amateurs can't get access to it as well! Telescope Talk Hangouts are sponsored by OPT Telescopes: https://bit.ly/2SwhmVB OPT Professional Services: https://optcorp.com/collections/pro-services Subscribe to Launchpad Astronomy: https://www.youtube.com/user/christianready 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/ Join our free Discord server for always-on chat action! https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK

New observations from the GRAVITY and SINFONI instrument on the Very Large Telescope have given us unprecedented observations of material falling into the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. 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/

Studies of planetary systems have indicated that star systems with high metallicity (think iron - actually anything heavier than helium) may preferentially form planets,but a new survey suggests there are many compact, multiple-planet systems for which this trend does not hold. There could be many such compact systems that have been undetected until recently. The most common systems discovered have larger Jupiter or Neptune sized planets. A team at Yale University has conducted a survey of 700 stars and been able to find smaller panels with newer technology such as their Extreme Precision Spectrometer (EXPRES). This instrumentation enables discovery of the smaller planetary systems. Such low metallicity systems have formed early on in the history of the universe and have been in existence for quite a long time. So what are those planetary systems like? Join Tony Darnell and Carol Christian during Afternoon Astronomy Coffee on November 8 at 3PM Eastern time as they discuss with the investigators John Michael Brewer and Songhu Wang (both from Yale University) about their survey and the intriguing relationship of metal content and the formation of planets. Get the paper to follow along here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1BCFJSBNuyfvMyNeKN7h0jlr4OrdnQz4W 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

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Telescope Talk Hangouts are sponsored by OPT Telescopes: https://bit.ly/2SwhmVB Some of the most exciting astronomical discoveries and observations are being done at the cutting-edge observatories operated by ESO. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is the pre-eminent intergovernmental science and technology organisation in astronomy. It carries out an ambitious programme focused on the design, construction and operation of powerful ground-based observing facilities for astronomy, in order to enable important scientific discoveries. ESO also plays a leading role in promoting and organising cooperation in astronomical research. ESO operates three unique world-class observing sites in the Atacama Desert region of Chile: La Silla, Paranal and Chajnantor. ESO's first site is at La Silla, a 2400 m high mountain 600 km north of Santiago de Chile. It is equipped with several optical telescopes with mirror diameters of up to 3.6 metres. The 3.5-metre New Technology Telescope broke new ground for telescope engineering and design and was the first in the world to have a computer-controlled main mirror, a technology developed at ESO and now applied to most of the world's current large telescopes. The ESO 3.6-metre telescope is now home to the world's foremost extrasolar planet hunter: HARPS (High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher), a spectrograph with unrivalled precision. Please join Tony Darnell and Christian Ready as they discuss the amazing work being done at ESO with guests Dr. Gaitee Hussain and Dr. Rubén Sánchez-Janssen. Go check out Christian Ready's channel here: https://youtube.com/LaunchpadAstronomy Download Visuals Here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1T81rbRC9eic44Y4DiKooCfpV24mVdAc2 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/ Join our free Discord server for always-on chat action! https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK

Space Fan News is Sponsored by OPT Telescopes and Patreon Patrons: https://optcorp.com/?utm_source=deepastronomy&utm_medium=telescopetalk&utm_campaign=home As NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope ends its mission once and for all, ESA’s GAIA Space Telescope offers new data prompting a reassessment of the estimate of rocky habitable Earth-sized worlds found by Kepler. This new information reduces the number of potentially habitable rocky worlds considerably. 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/

Telescope Talk Hangouts are sponsored by OPT Telescopes: https://bit.ly/2SwhmVB Are you looking to buy a telescope as a gift or for yourself? This hangout will discuss the five most popular telescopes that OPT has in their store and that they have sold over time. Links to the Telescopes covered today: Tabletop telescopes (Meade LightBridge Mini 114 is linked) https://bit.ly/2DcuwTv Celestron NexStar SE https://bit.ly/2qfF5fM Meade StarNavigator NG https://bit.ly/2Oe16oT Sky-Watcher Dobsonians: https://bit.ly/2Jsh2mU Celestron Advanced VX: https://bit.ly/2PqBF8u Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/ Join our free Discord server for always-on chat action! https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK

Space Fan News is Sponsored by OPT Telescopes and Patreon Patrons: https://optcorp.com/?utm_source=deepastronomy&utm_medium=telescopetalk&utm_campaign=home In this episode, as you can imagine, black holes are hard to see. Considering that they are so dense that their gravity won’t let anything out, not even light, you can imagine that well… they are pretty black. Couple that with how black space is and it’s easy to conclude that black holes are hard to find. Well this week, astronomers have found an new technique for finding them. 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/

The mission engineers and scientists for the Hubble Space Telescope have been working to correct some technical issues with the gyros that point the venerable space telescope. Hubble went into safe mode a couple of weeks ago and now seems to be back to resuming normal operations. Join Tony Darnell and Carol Christian as they discuss what happened with Hubble, how the problems were discovered and a fix found. We'll also explore other topics related to Hubble, such as, how much longer will it be around? Will Hubble last long enough to overlap JWST? 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

If you'd like to get started in taking images with your telescope, then this is the hangout for you! Experts at OPT Telescopes will be discussing the right way to get started in this wonderful and amazing aspect of amateur astronomy. Watch this hangout to get started in imaging right! These hangouts are sponsored by OPT Telescopes: https://optcorp.com/?utm_source=deepastronomy&utm_medium=telescopetalk&utm_campaign=home 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

NASA will soon wrap up four concept studies of major space observatories that could launch sometime in the coming couple decades. One of these is the Large UV/optical/IR (LUVOIR) Surveyor. LUVOIR is a concept for a highly capable, multi-wavelength observatory with ambitious science goals. This mission would enable a major leap forward in a broad range of astrophysics, from the era of galaxy formation and evolution, to star and planet formation. LUVOIR also has the exciting goal of characterizing a wide range of exoplanets, including those that might be habitable - or even inhabited. Join Tony Darnell and Harley Thronson as they discuss this concept with Drs. John O’Meara (St. Michael’s College), Debra Fischer (Yale University), and Matthew Bolcar (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center). Future in Space Hangouts are endorsed by the American Astronomical Society and the American Astronautical Society. AAS Wernher Von Braun Memorial Symposium, Oct 23-25: http://astronautical.org/events/vonbraun/ Check out the LUVOIR Website Here: https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/luvoir/ Get the LUVOIR Graphics here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1A0uOz8x63oHGtkc8sqW5TeQRBskZHFbH 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

These hangouts are sponsored by OPT Telescopes: https://optcorp.com/collections/pro-services? utm_source=deepastronomy&utm_medium=telescopetalk&utm_campaign=pro https://optcorp.com/collections/pro-services?utm_source=deepastronomy&utm_medium=telescopetalk&utm_campaign=pro To find a technical civilization however, requires more than bio-markers, we need "technomarkers" or "technosignatures" that reveal the presence of any technology that an exoplanet might possess. One possibility is a "Clarke Exobelt", a region in space around planets called the "Clarke Belt," in honour of Arthur C. Clarke, who in 1945, published an article about the use of geostationary orbits for telecommunications. In this belt are geostationary satellites used for a large number of practical applications. Please join Tony Darnell and Christian Ready as they discuss this idea with Hector Socas-Navarro an astronomer at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias and author of a paper "Possible Photometric Signatures of Moderately Advanced Civilizations: The Clarke Exobelt" Link to the Paper: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LpeEmGaD9iDu-bl6y39LGHvRpBe63GfX Link to the press release: https://phys.org/news/2018-06-clarke-exobelt-method-extraterrestrial-civilizations.html 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

Think about it: Hubble is down to one gyro, maybe two; Kepler is in safe mode; and today, the Chandra X-ray telescope went into safe mode; Spitzer has run out of coolant but still doing science - our fleet of space telescopes is getting older what are we replacing them with? 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/

Astronomers using Hubble Space Telescope data have new observations of a candidate exomoon associated with Kepler-1625b. If confirmed, this exomoon would be quite large, with a mass and radius similar to Neptune. The exoplanet Kepler-1625b is itself quite large, a planet initially estimated to be several Jupiter masses. Please join Tony Darnell, Carol Christian, Alex Teachey and David Kipping as they discuss these new observations and what they tell us about this new exomoon. Link to paper: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/10/eaav1784 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

Bad news I’m afraid for the venerable Hubble Space Telescope. Project Scientists tweeted earlier today that Hubble has been placed in safe mode as two of it’s critical gyros used for pointing have failed. As sad as it is, it appears that the clock is ticking on this 28 year old masterpiece. 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/

The discovery over the past few years that stars in the Milky Way may each be orbited by at least one planet suggests that among these numerous planetary systems may reside planets similar to Earth, perhaps even harboring life. The HabEx concept is intended to be the astronomical community’s response to an age-old question of humanity, “Are we alone in the cosmos?" Although optimized for direct-imaging exoplanet science, HabEx will also enable a broad suite of unique “general astrophysics” science, not possible from ground- or space-based facilities available in the 2030s, when HabEx would launch. Please join our regular hosts, Tony Darnell and Harley Thronson, as they discuss with Drs. Sara Seager (MIT), Shawn Goldman (GSFC) Daniel Stern (NASA JPL), and John Clarke (Boston University) the astronomical search for life and the technological advances that will make it possible. The Future in Space Hangouts are sponsored by the American Astronautical Society: https://astronautical.org Visit the HabEx Website Here: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/habex/mission/ 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

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) is currently under construction on Haleakala in Hawaii. This ground-based flagship observatory promises to shed light on the fundamental physical processes that govern the behavior of the Sun and many other astrophysical objects that continue to remain elusive. Please join Dr. Jeff Kuhn, Dr. Svetlana Berdughina, Tony Darnell and Christian Ready as we learn about this new observatory and the science it promises. Follow our Co-host Christian Ready on YouTube: https://youtube.com/ChristianReady Link to Google Drive with visuals from Hangout: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19HlZO7_bY8JlFuywKjNrXFzUfjx0qSZ3 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

Welcome to a special edition of Telescope Talk. Today we'll discuss equipment for astronomy with Dustin Gibson, owner of Oceanside Equipment and Telescope in California. 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! Earlier this month, the Parker Solar Probe sent back the first images from each of its four instruments while enroute to the Sun. These early observations – while not yet examples of the key science observations it will take closer to the Sun – show that each of the instruments is working well. 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/

Live chat on Discord! https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK What would the planet Vulcan be like? It might be like the "super-Earth" planet orbiting a nearby star (16 light years) called HD 26965. The planet is only 2 times the size of Earth and the parent star is much like the sun. The planet orbits the star in a mere 42 days - but it is just inside the habitable zone where life might form. The star is a little smaller and cooler and has other attributes similar to the Sun. The object was found with the Dharma Endowment Foundation Telescope (DEFT), a 50-inch telescope located atop Mt. Lemmon in southern Arizona near Tucson. The astronomers think the planet just might be suitable for life and even an advanced civilization. Several publications about Star Trek actually referred to this planetary system as the home of Mr. Spock known by its other name, 40 Eridani. Join Tony Darnell and Carol Christian during Afternoon Astronomy Coffee on September 13 at 3PM Eastern time as they discuss with the investigators Jian Ge (University of Florida) and team member Matthew Muterspaugh (Tennessee State University) about the Dharma Survey discovery and what interesting characteristics the HD 26965 system as well as the survey itself. Link to Press Release: http://news.ufl.edu/articles/2018/09/exploring-strange-new-worlds-star-trek-planet-vulcan-found.php Visuals used in Hangout available here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1EjfC0gSDtsmadHrRL3OQQB7WOFL4nYvh Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy

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

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