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CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA — NASA's new planet-hunting satellite will seek out Earth-like worlds over the next two years. Called the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), the spacecraft searches for planets which orbit a star and cause a dip in its brightness. This pattern is akin to how Earth orbits the Sun, and repeated brightness dips may indicate planet supporting life. Planets orbiting other stars are termed exoplanets. This covers planets of all sizes from Earth and Mars, to Jupiter. TESS will search for exoplanets outside the solar system. NASA says TESS will cover an area 400 times greater than observed by the Kepler satellite. Over 2 years it, it will look at 26 different sectors of space. According to NASA, TESS will observe stars up to 100 times brighter than previously covered. Subscribe to TomoNews ►►http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-TomoNews TomoNews is your best source for real news. We cover the funniest, craziest and most talked-about stories on the internet. Our tone is irreverent and unapologetic. If you’re laughing, we’re laughing. If you’re outraged, we’re outraged. We tell it like it is. And because we can animate stories, TomoNews brings you news like you’ve never seen before. Ultimate TomoNews Compilations - Can't get enough of TomoNews? Then this playlist is for you! New videos are added each day http://bit.ly/Ulitmate_TomoNews_Compilations Top TomoNews Stories - A shortcut to the most popular videos on TomoNews! http://bit.ly/Top_TomoNews_Stories World News - Latest international headlines from around the world http://bit.ly/TomoNews_World_News Awww!!! Animals - All the best animal videos! Hungry hippos, tiger hairballs, giant pythons, and many more! http://bit.ly/Aw_Animals Connect with TomoNews! Like TomoNews on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TomoNewsUS Follow us on Twitter: @tomonewsus http://www.twitter.com/TomoNewsUS Follow us on Instagram: @tomonewsus http://instagram.com/tomonewsus Get your TomoNews merch today! http://bit.ly/tomonews-teespring Visit our official website for all the latest videos: http://us.tomonews.com Check out our Android app: http://bit.ly/1rddhCj Check out our iOS app: http://bit.ly/1gO3z1f Get top stories delivered to your inbox every day: http://bit.ly/tomo-newsletter

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This week in space news, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite launches on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to embark on a hunt for exoplanets, and the Parker Solar Probe arrives in Florida to begin preparations for its upcoming mission to study the Sun.

SpaceX is targeting launch of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) on Wednesday, April 18 from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The 30-second launch window opens at 6:51 p.m. EDT, or 22:51 UTC. TESS will be deployed into a highly elliptical orbit approximately 48 minutes after launch. Following stage separation, SpaceX will attempt to land Falcon 9’s first stage on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.

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SpaceX is launching a brand new, and quite possibly one of the last non-block five Falcon 9's for NASA at 22:51 UTC (6:51 Eastern) out of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's SLC-40. SpaceX will be attempting to land this booster on "Of Course I still Love you." TESS is the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and was manufactured by Orbital ATK and led by MIT to help search for exoplanets orbiting other stars. Show your support and join our discord channel by becoming a Patron - http://patreon.com/everydayastronaut Music by Everyday Astronaut - http://soundcloud.com/everydayastronaut Everyday Astronaut hats, prints, shirts and more at - https://everydayastronaut.com/shop/ SpaceX models by Oli Braun http://twitter.com/oli_braun and his store - https://www.buzzspacemodels.com/

SpaceX will launch NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), into orbit. Tess will survey almost the entire sky, staring at the brightest, closest stars in an effort to find any planets that might be encircling them. These mysterious worlds beyond our solar system, called exoplanets, could harbour life. For more info, please go to http://www.globalnews.ca Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/20fcXDc Like Global News on Facebook HERE: http://bit.ly/255GMJQ Follow Global News on Twitter HERE: http://bit.ly/1Toz8mt

A camera on the Falcon 9 upper stage shows NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, as it separates and is deployed into a highly elliptical orbit. Liftoff took place from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 at 6:51 p.m. EDT. The satellite is a NASA Astrophysics Explorer Mission led and operated by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Join me live from the Kennedy Space Center while the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) into a highly elliptical Earth orbit. This live broadcast will be during my trip to Cape Canaveral, Florida while attending the NASA Social event for this mission. I'm not sure how my mobile bandwidth will perform or when I'll be able to start the broadcast, but I will do my best to start at least 30 minutes before launch and keep it going live through shortly after launch. Follow @OLHZN on Twitter for the latest update in case of technical difficulties or delays getting the broadcast started. http://twitter.com/OLHZN TESS is a space telescope in NASA's Explorer program, designed to search for extrasolar planets using the transit method. The primary mission objective for TESS is to survey the brightest stars near the Earth for transiting exoplanets over a two-year period. The TESS project will use an array of wide-field cameras to perform an all-sky survey. It will scan nearby stars for exoplanets. ************************************************************** Donate to our 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization here: Donorbox: https://donorbox.org/olhzn Paypal Charity: https://www.paypal.com/fundraiser/charity/2727446 Amazon Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/82-3099711 ************************************************************** Learn more about our weather balloon flights, data & videos at: http://overlookhorizon.com To learn more about our Arduino based flight computer, APRS transmitter, RTTY radio transmitter, ham radio balloon tracking methods or any of our other onboard technology and data sensors; visit http://overlookhorizon.com OUR FLIGHT SYSTEMS: Styrofoam Cooler: http://amzn.to/2pLYNkz Arduino MEGA: http://amzn.to/2pMh3KC Lightdow LD4000 Action Camera: http://amzn.to/2qFlsNu Rocketman Parachute: http://amzn.to/2pecXrx Adafruit PowerBoost: http://amzn.to/2q4v2fL uBlox Neo 6M GPS: http://amzn.to/2pMfUm1 DS18b20 Temperature Sensor: http://amzn.to/2qK4goZ Data Logging Shield: http://amzn.to/2pengvC BMP180 Pressure Sensor: http://amzn.to/2pLcSMW Piezo Speaker Alarm: http://amzn.to/2q4AEXb Orbtronics 18650 Lithium Ion Batteries: http://amzn.to/2pLD4XW Radar Reflector: http://amzn.to/2fmY7il Please Donate! Overlook Horizon Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization in the United States. If you're a fan of our high altitude balloon / weather balloon adventures and videos, please consider making a donation to our organization that is 100% tax-deductible in the US! Donations help us raise funds to to facilitate more flights, launches and adventures that we can share with students of all ages. We want to expand our reach and provide students a hands on opportunity to build, fly and analyze the science behind high altitude balloons, outer space and engineering. Any help is greatly appreciated. Donate Here: http://overlookhorizon.com/donate Connect on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/overlookhorizon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/olhzn Twitter: https://twitter.com/OLHZN Website: http://www.overlookhorizon.com Donate: https://donorbox.org/olhzn Support amateur space flight by purchasing a high altitude balloon (weather balloon) t-shirt from our apparel store: http://overlookhorizon.com/shirts -~-~~-~~~-~~-~- Watch a full flight with beautiful views from launch to the stratosphere and back over Finger Lakes in NY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZwq86wWknk -~-~~-~~~-~~-~-

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SpaceX’s planned launch of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been delayed.The $337 million exoplanet-hunting spacecraft must wait until at least Wednesday before it can blast off.Due to launch Monday evening, conditions looked good for takeoff, with SpaceX tweeting: “Weather is 80% favorable for today’s launch at 6:32 p.m.EDT, 22:32 UTC.” But later that day, SpaceX announced it was delaying the launch for extra testing.“Standing down today to conduct additional GNC analysis,” the company wrote in a tweet.GNC stands for “guidance, navigation and control.” TESS—a spacecraft roughly the size of a washing machine—will search nearby bright stars for signs of planets.It will monitor the light of these stars, looking out for small dips in brightness.This dimming could signal a planet is moving in front of the star.Don't miss: The NSA Wants Your Encrypted Data | Opinion NASA expects TESS will find tens of thousands of exoplanets.The craft is set to sweep the sky as it orbits the earth for two years.Each orbit will take about 13.7days.TESS will take the baton from NASA’s other planet-hunting spacecraft, Kepler, which is running out of fuel after almost a decade in space.Kepler has found more than 2,300 confirmed exoplanets over its lifetime."One of the many amazing things that Kepler told us is that planets are everywhere and there are all kinds of planets out there,” Patricia Boyd, TESS guest investigator program lead at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center, told reporters in advance of the scheduled launch.“So TESS takes the next step.If planets are everywhere, then it is time for us to find the planets that are closest to us orbiting bright nearby stars, because these will be the touchstone system." Most popular: Anyone Who Knows Anything About Fashion Has Stopped Wearing Fur | Opinion Last-minute delays for testing are not unusual for rocket launches.“Final day launch postponement because someone did a last minute check of something and decided it needed another look is surprisingly common.Always better safe than sorry,” astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, commented on Twitter.Several of SpaceX’s past missions have been held back for technical reasons.For example, in late 2017 the company’s launch of mysterious government payload Zuma was delayed for additional “assurance work.”SpaceX finally launched Zuma in January, but questions remain as to its ultimate success.TESS will launch on one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets—the same class of rocket that has sent several Dragon capsules to the International Space Station with supplies.A Falcon 9 recently sent sperm up for analysis to the space laboratory.Assuming the Falcon 9 is good to go, the weather looks reasonably favorable for a Wednesday launch.There is a slight risk of further delay from rising clouds, according a U.S.Air Force forecast.Issued Monday afternoon, the forecast gives less than a 10 percent chance that weather problem

We’re now entering the final days for NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope. It’s running out of fuel and already crippled by the loss of its reaction wheels. In just a few months NASA will shut it down for good. That is sad, but don’t worry, NASA’s next planet hunting spacecraft, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Telescope is on the launchpad and ready to fly to space to take over where Kepler left off. Finding Earth-sized worlds in the Milky Way. Sign up to my weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Support us at: http://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: http://www.universetoday.com/ Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Google+ - https://plus.google.com/+universetoday/ Instagram - http://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected] Chloe Cain - Instagram: @chloegwen2001 References: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/main/index.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/overview/index.html https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/nasa-s-kepler-spacecraft-nearing-the-end-as-fuel-runs-low https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4KjvPIbgMI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evHF_mnIdj4 https://www.nasa.gov/content/about-tess/ https://tess.gsfc.nasa.gov/instrument.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AIbD2WxyN8&t

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The launch of TESS has been scrubbed today. The launch is rescheduled for Wednesday, April 18. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is scheduled to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 at 6:32 p.m. ET. The satellite's mission will be to search for planets outside our solar system. Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6 Follow us: Facebook: http://www.pbs.org/newshour Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/newshour Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/newshour Snapchat: @pbsnews Subscribe: PBS NewsHour podcasts: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/podcasts Newsletters: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/subscribe

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is launching on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, and some clever work by the designers has enabled it to reach an ideal orbit with almost no work by the spacecraft. Instead much of the work is carried out by the Falcon 9 upper stage with only small adjustments made by the spacecraft's attitude control thrusters. By doing this they were able to make the spacecraft even cheaper and fit it into the small budget available.

Subscribe ▶ https://goo.gl/oLRjsZ / TESS science news conference. Learn about the science to be performed by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). AOn a mission to detect planets outside of our solar system, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is scheduled to launch no earlier than 6:32 p.m. EDT Monday, April 16. Prelaunch mission coverage will begin on NASA Television and the agency’s website Sunday, April 15, with three live briefings. TESS is NASA’s next step in the search for planets outside of our solar system, known as exoplanets, including those that could support life. The mission is expected to catalog thousands of planet candidates and vastly increase the current number of known exoplanets. TESS will find the most promising exoplanets orbiting relatively nearby stars, giving future researchers a rich set of new targets for more comprehensive follow-up studies, including the potential to assess their capacity to harbor life. Credit : NASA FOLLOW CHANNEL : Youtube ▶ https://goo.gl/oLRjsZ web ▶ https://goo.gl/Gp1p8g youtube ▶ https://goo.gl/QA3xt7 twitter ▶ https://goo.gl/HcrJAx facebook ▶ https://goo.gl/U7pPTr istigram ▶ https://goo.gl/9bgMxd We have videos with the following content on our channel. #NASA #SPACEX #INTERNATIONAL #SPACE #STATION #LIVE #Astronomer #gelecekuzayda #sciencecommunicator #Bilim #Uzay #Science #BreakingBarriers #NASATV #ISS #HEAVY #otv #LIVESTREAM #WORLD #ASTEROID #orbital #falcon9 #Superbluebloodmoon #Falconheavy #ElonMusk #mars #Tesla #CRS #KEPLER #ULA #JPSS #astronaut #mars #earth #solarsystem #spacetravel #iss #elonmusk #moonlanding #apollo #spaceshuttle #spacewalk #AtlasV #GOESS #GOES17 #STEMonStation #x37b Filorida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, NASA TESS Mission Falcon Rocket Launch who will be ejected from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, is very important for the Universities where I write Filorida below. It is very important for the students at these universities to pay attention to this mission and to investigate their follow-up studies so that they can be involved in their future studies. Nasa works for us day and night. young people can not attach importance to this in the flow of life. Universities are very busy. This vision is important for the students to follow the social activities of these students who are studying this field especially for electronics, engineer, space technology mechatronics, artificial intelligence and sociology for future. x-37 test Mission Universities that need attention. Central Florida University , Webster University , Epic Flight Academy , Kaplan International USA , University of Tampa College of Natural and Health Sciences , University of Tampa - Sykes College of Business , Miami Hotel School of Innovation , ELS Language Centers , Adolfo Ibañez School of Management , National University of Health Sciences , University of Central Florida , Florida International University , Florida Coastal School of Law , University of South Florida College of Pharmacy , Twin Musicom artist At the Foot of the Sphinx is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100393

NASA plans to leadi n a new age of exoplanet discovery with their TESS, or the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, which is scheduled to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on April 16. The space telescope, a successor to the aging and soon-to-be-decommissioned Kepler space telescope, will scan an area of the night sky nearly 400 times larger than that covered by those before it. With so much real estate out there to examine, NASA expects that TESS may discover as many as 20,000 exoplanets https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/space/blogs/nasa-set-launch-new-groundbreaking-exoplanet-hunter http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit News using http://wochit.com

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TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is NASA's newest exoplanet mission. Led by MIT, TESS will find thousands of new planets orbiting nearby stars. During its two year survey, TESS will watch a wide variety of stars, looking for signs of planets ranging from Earth-size to larger than Jupiter. Each of TESS's cameras has a 16.8-megapixel sensor covering a square 24 degrees wide — large enough to contain an entire constellation. TESS has four of these cameras arranged to view a long strip of the sky called an observation sector. TESS will watch each observation sector for about 27 days before rotating to the next. It will cover the southern sky in its first year, and then begin scanning the north. TESS will study 85 percent of the sky — an area 350 times greater than what NASA's Kepler mission first observed — making TESS the first exoplanet mission to survey nearly the entire sky. Because TESS's observation sectors overlap, it will have an area near the pole under constant observation. This region is easily monitored by the James Webb Space Telescope, which allows the two missions to work together to first find, and then carefully study exoplanets. Music: "Drive to Succeed" from Killer Tracks Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12884 If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/NASAExplorer Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/ · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard/ · Google+ https://plus.google.com/+NASAGoddard

Planetary scientist Dr. Susan Lederer of the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Division at the NASA’s Johnson Space Center discusses the discovery of the TRAPPIST-1 extrasolar system. Lederer also discusses the potential habitability of the seven planets orbiting the parent star. This was the fifth and final presentation in the Lunar and Planetary Institute’s 2017–2018 Cosmic Exploration Speaker Series, “Diving into Ocean Worlds.”

Super-Earth planets are as the name suggest massive solid planets, but what would visiting and standing on one be like. A good example of a Super-Earth is Gliese 581c planet, which we have also sent a message to, which is called AMFE - A Message from Earth. My twitter: https://twitter.com/Dreksler_Astral Idea for a video was suggested by @eriot_edelweiss on Twitter. Intro, outro and clips in the video were made with Space Engine. Music: Kevin MacLeod - Lost Frontier

We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Wednesday at 5:00 pm Pacific / 8:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Universe Today or the Weekly Space Hangout YouTube page. Mathew Anderson, author and good friend of the Weekly Space Hangout, joins us again this week to discuss his newest book, "Habitable Exoplanets: Red Dwarf Systems Like TRAPPIST-1," in which he focuses on exoplanet properties and the chances for habitable planets around Red Dwarf stars. As he did with his two prior books, "Our Cosmic Story" and its followup "Is Anyone Out There," Mathew will be offering a free e-copy of "Habitable Planets: Red Dwarf Systems Like TRAPPIST-1" to viewers of the Weekly Space Hangout, so be sure to tune in this week to find out how to get your free copy of this fascinating book.

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite - TESS - will fly in an orbit that completes two circuits around Earth every time the Moon orbits once. This special orbit will allow TESS’s cameras to monitor each patch of sky continuously for nearly a month at a time. To get into this orbit, TESS will make a series of loops culminating in a lunar gravity assist, which will give it the final push it needs. TESS will reach its orbit about 60 days after launch. This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12884 Music: "Drive to Succeed" from Killer Tracks Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/NASAExplorer Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/ · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard/ · Google+ https://plus.google.com/+NASAGoddard

To uncover the mysteries of the universe, astronomers are becoming greedy, making more observations than they can possibly analyze manually. Large photometric surveys from space telescopes like Kepler and the future TESS are no exception and today modern astronomers use artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms to help them reveal the existence of exoplanets hidden in many years of observations of hundreds of thousands of stars. For this SETI Talk, we invited two researchers involved in the Kepler mission and AI to discuss the potential of neural networks to transform astronomy. Jeff Smith, Data scientist at the SETI Institute, has developed data processing and planet detection algorithms for Kepler since 2010 and is now involved in developing the pipeline for the future TESS mission. Chris Shallue, a senior software engineer at Google AI has used a neural network to analyze archival data from the Kepler Space Telescope to reveal the existence of two unknown exoplanets, named Kepler-90i and Kepler-80g. After presenting their recent work, we will discuss the impact of this new mode of scientific discovery, where artificial intelligence can assist humans in mapping out parts of the galaxy that have not yet been fully revealed. Chris Shallue is a Senior Research Software Engineer on the Google AI team in Mountain View, California. His research is currently focused on machine learning techniques for identifying planets in data collected by the NASA Kepler space telescope. He also works on image captioning, natural language modeling and machine learning theory. Chris was previously a member of the Google Display Ads team where he worked on ad selection and personalization for GMail and Google Maps. Prior to joining Google, Chris was teaching, studying and researching mathematics. Dr. Jeffrey Smith began his academic passion in the field of High Energy Accelerator Physics. His Ph.D. thesis was on the design of the International Linear Collider (ILC), a 22 mile-long electron-positron accelerator that will complement the discoveries being made at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. After Cornell, Jeff joined the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University to continue his work on the ILC and also to develop upgrade hardware for the LHC. After a successful career looking into the tiniest of inner-spaces Jeff decided to look up to the stars. Dr. Smith, now at the SETI Institute, develops data processing and planet detection algorithms for the Kepler and TESS Missions. Eking out planet signals in the Kepler data has proven to be a challenging and rewarding endeavor but looking toward the future, Dr. Smith is involved with developing new methods for use with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a new NASA planet finding mission to find Earth’s nearest cousins in a our galactic back yard.

The search for extrasolar planets has uncovered a dizzying array of planetary systems. As part of that quest, researchers have found new planet types—lava worlds and super-Earths—as well as planets orbiting more than one star.

We were impressed when we detected the first exoplanet, but how about detecting planets in other galaxies? In this episode, we discuss recent evidence for extragalactic planets, the possibility of rogue planets being homes for civilizations and the possibility of travelling to other galaxies. ►Click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB0fFWQLZ2oj-FaoDUG_wow?sub_confirmation=1 ►Written, Produced & Narrated by: David ►Share this video: https://youtu.be/3IH_CxaplV8 Music: “So Many Stars” by Miguel Johnson “Cylinder Five” by Chris Zabriskie "Endless Story about Sun and Moon” by Kai Engel

Join Tony Darnell, Dr. Jeff Kuhn, Dr. Svetlana Berdugina and Kevin Lewis as they discuss the latest development in the field of astrobiology. Want to learn the latest in Exoplanet research? The cutting edge of finding related to our search for life elsewhere? Then this is the hangout for you! This week we'll talk about Pi Day, Stephen Hawking's death, the GAO report on the JWST mission and much, much more. Miss the hangout live? Watch and comment on our website: https://deepastronomy.space/video/zXW7uXo04aE/exolife-hangout-happy-pi-day Want a TESS Mission Tee like Tony? Get one here: https://teespring.com/stores/deep-astronomy

An exploration of the habitability of snowball worlds, eye worlds and the possibility that earth has completely frozen over several times in the past and for a time was a snowball world. https://www.patreon.com/johnmichaelgodier Papers: "Habitable Snowballs: Generalizing the Habitable Zone", Paradise et al, 2018 https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.00511 Music Cylinder Eight by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/

My twitter: https://twitter.com/Dreksler_Astral Trappist-1 is a system with seven planets, out of them three are in the habitable zone, but that does not mean they are habitable. Still i take a look at what would it be like to stand on them and i explore the topic a bit. Intro, outro and other clips in the video were made with Space Engine. Images are by NASA. Music: Huma Huma - Nevada City

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite undergoes solar array deployment testing at Kennedy.

An update in my continuing coverage of the exoplanet Proxima B, currently the closest known exoplanet to earth and hit it's subject to severe solar flares. https://www.patreon.com/johnmichaelgodier Papers and links: https://carnegiescience.edu/news/proxima-centauri%E2%80%99s-no-good-very-bad-day-flare-illuminates-lack-dust-ring-puts-habitability Music: Cylinder Eight by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/

My twitter: https://twitter.com/Dreksler_Astral Kepler-452b is an exoplanet 1400 light-years away, and it is also the most promising world for habitability. So then what would living on this planet be like? In this video i talk about that. Intro,outro and other clips in the video are made with Space Engine. Music: Mercury - DL Sounds, Can be found here: https://www.dl-sounds.com/royalty-free/mercury/

in HD 1080p Exoplanet Atmosphere Characterization, Present and Future pH Lecture March 1, 2018 Phillips Auditorium Laura Kreidberg CfA Host: Charles Alcock Abstract: We now know that exoplanets abound in the Galaxy, with most stars hosting at least one planet. These recently discovered worlds are much more diverse than the planets in the Solar System, and raise many questions about their formation, evolution, and habitability. To address these questions, we turn to atmosphere characterization, which provides a wealth of additional information about the planets. I will discuss the state of the art in atmosphere studies, focusing on recent high-precision, space-based observations of hot Jupiters and warm Neptunes. These studies have already revealed planetary atmospheric chemistry, climate, and cloud coverage in unprecedented detail, and they are poised for a revolutionary advance thanks to the upcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. I will conclude with a discussion of prospects for future observations with JWST, including the characterization of temperate, terrestrial worlds.

Finding another planet like Earth outside of our solar system is now a possibility like never before. More than at any other time in human history, we have to tools to begin finding Earth's twin. Today's hangout features a discussion with Dr. Jessie Christiansen, Staff Scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Archive. Jessie is an expert in exoplanetary systems and has focused her research on: Measurement and analysis of exoplanet atmosphere compositions; detection and characterisation of interesting exoplanet systems; derivation of planet occurrence rates from the NASA Kepler mission and the generation and analysis of planet and planet candidate catalogues. Jessie loves to talk to the public about astronomy and the search for life beyond our solar system and has been been featured in many media programs including NASA's Unexplained Files on the Discovery Science channel. Here is NASA's Exoplanet Archive: https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/ Join our chat on Discord: https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK

One year ago, astronomers announced the discovery that seven roughly Earth-sized worlds orbited around the nearby star TRAPPIST-1. Now a year later, additional data have refined our understanding of these planets.We now know more about the TRAPPIST-1 system than any other solar system other than our own.

Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku doesn't just hope that humanity finds its way onto other planets... he's even picked out the ones we should be moving to — Proxima Centauri B, in the Alpha Centauri triple star system. He's even suggested that the next great space exploration could happen on a spaceship the size of a postage stamp, traveling 20% the speed of light, sent by using high-powered lasers. It sounds like a wild theory, but if anyone's wild theories could come true in the next 100 years, it's probably Michio Kaku. Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/michio-kaku-how-a-spaceship-the-size-of-a-postage-stamp-could-find-humanitys-new-home-planet Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BigThinkdotcom Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink We’ve been brainwashed into thinking—by Hollywood—that a starship has to be huge and gigantic, the size of the Enterprise. However, the laws of physics make possible sending postage stamp-sized chips to the nearby stars. So think of a chip perhaps this big on a parachute, and have thousands of them sent into outer space energized by perhaps 800 megawatts of laser power. By shooting this gigantic bank of laser energy into outer space, by energizing all these mini parachutes you could then begin to accelerate of them to about 20 percent the speed of light. This is with doable technology today; it’s just a question of engineering. It’s a question of political will and economics, but there’s no physics, there’s no law of physics preventing you from shooting these chips to 20 percent the speed of light. That means Proxima Centauri, part of the Alpha Centauri triple star system, could be within the range of such a device. Now think about that, that means that within 20 years, after 20 years of launch we might be able to have the first starship go to a nearby planet. And it turns out that Proxima Centauri B is an Earth-like planet that circles around the closest star to the planet Earth. What a coincidence. It means that we’ve already staked out our first destination for visitation by an interstellar starship and that is Proxima Centauri B, a planet that goes around one of the stars in the triple star system. And so this could be the first of many different kinds of starship designs. In my book The Future of Humanity, I go through many of the possible design including fusion rockets, ramjet fusion rockets, including antimatter rockets. Some of these rockets, of course, or technologies won’t be available till the next 100 years, but remember we’re talking about the future of humanity, and the future of humanity I think could be in outer space.

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is scheduled to launch later this year. Where does the mission stand? Join us for the first Future in Space Hangout for 2018 as we take a look at the status of the TESS mission and discuss some of the amazing science it is designed to accomplish. As always, we hope you'll join in on the discussion via our Discord server: https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK

Two new studies in the journals Nature Astronomy & Astrophysics suggest the seven rocky, Earth-sized planets in the Trappist-1 system may have water and life-supporting atmospheres.

Until now, scientists haven’t detected any planets outside of our own Milky Way Galaxy—it’s simply been too difficult to discern such small things from so far away. https://gizmodo.com/scientists-find-evidence-of-thousands-of-planets-in-dis-1822727151 http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit News using http://wochit.com

Worlds in the Star’s Habitable Zone Are Not Smothered Under Primordial Atmospheres Only 40 light-years away — a stone’s throw on the scale of our galaxy — several Earth-sized planets orbit the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1. Four of the planets lie in the star’s habitable zone, a region at a distance from the star where liquid water, the key to life as we know it, could exist on the planets’ surfaces. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have conducted the first spectroscopic survey of these worlds. Hubble reveals that at least three of the exoplanets do not seem to contain puffy, hydrogen-rich atmospheres similar to gaseous planets such as Neptune. This means the atmospheres may be more shallow and rich in heavier gases like those found in Earth’s atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide, methane, and oxygen. Astronomers plan to use NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to launch in 2019, to probe deeper into the planetary atmospheres to search for the presence of such elements that could offer hints of whether these far-flung worlds are habitable. Artist's Concept: NASA and JPL/Caltech

A new study has found that the seven planets orbiting the nearby ultra-cool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 are all made mostly of rock, and some could potentially hold more water than Earth. The planets' densities, now known much more precisely than before, suggest that some of them could have up to 5 percent of their mass in the form of water — about 250 times more than Earth's oceans. This ESOcast takes a quick look at this important result. Credit: ESO Editing: Nico Bartmann. Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida. Written by: Nicole Shearer and Richard Hook. Music: Music written and performed by: Colin Rayment & Stan Dart. Footage and photos: ESO, L. Calçada, spaceengine.org, M. Kornmesser. Directed by: Nico Bartmann. Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.

This artist’s impression video compares the seven planets orbiting the ultra-cool red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 at the same scale. New observations, when combined with very sophisticated analysis, have now yielded good estimates of the densities of all seven of the Earth-sized planets and suggest that they are rich in volatile materials, probably water. They are shown to the same scale but not in the correct relative positions. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser

Astrophysicists at the University of Oklahoma, using a technique called microlensing, have confirmed the existence of exoplanets beyond our own Milky Way galaxy. The scientific team has discovered not just one or two, but an estimated multitude of planets which range in size form the Moon to Jupiter. OU professor Xinyu Dai said, "We are very excited about this discovery. This is the first time anyone has discovered planets outside our galaxy. These small planets are the best candidate for the signature we observed in this study using the microlensing technique.” OU researcher Eduardo Guerras said, "This is an example of how powerful the techniques of analysis of extragalactic microlensing can be." https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/scientists-discover-exoplanets-beyond-milky-way-galaxy/ http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit News using http://wochit.com

It feels like every week someone tries to propose a new definition of what a planet should and shouldn't be, but a recent proposal is now gaining traction. But will it bring Pluto back form the realms of being a minor planet? This is your SpacePod for February 1st, 2018. === CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION === Twitter.com/TMRO Facebook.com/TMROTV YouTube.com/TMRO Reddit.com/r/tmro Twitch.tv/TMRO TMRO.tv === OUR REAL-TIME DISCORD CHANNEL === All of the TMRO Shows are created and maintained in our Discord channel. Escape Velocity Patrons have access to a special room, but we also have free #general rooms that anyone can participate in. Join in for free at https://discord.gg/9NkkFWD === TMRO IS CROWD FUNDED === TMRO shows are crowd funded. If you like this episode consider contributing to help us to continue to improve. Head over to http://www.patreon.com/tmro for per-episode contribution or http://www.minds.com/tmro for monthly contributions and reward information.

This hangout features a giant in the field of SETI research: Dr. Jill Tarter. In this ExoLife Hangout we invite Dr. Jill Tarter, co-founder of the SETI Institute, to talk about her new book Making Contact. Tarter’s work has brought her wide recognition in the scientific community, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from Women in Aerospace, two Public Service Medals from NASA, and Chabot Observatory’s Person of the Year. Join us this week as we chat with Jill Tarter to learn about her new book, the history of SETI Institute, and her journey of being a woman in science and astronomy. Check out Jill's Book on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/shop/deepastronomy Join our Chat on Discord: https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK

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/ In this episode, astronomers publish a paper claiming the two of the earth-sized planets around TRAPPIST-1 are potentially habitable; the LISA Mission passes a critical Mission Design Readiness Review; and next week when Space Fans look up, there’s a special treat in store for us - that is if you like superbluebloodmoons. Watch and comment on Deep Astronomy Website: https://deepastronomy.space/video/Us3K9EKRwm4/trappist-1-habitability-possible-lisa-passes-milestone-super-blue-blood-moon-next-week-sfn-222 Links: http://www.psi.edu/news/barrtrappist1 https://www.elisascience.org/?q=news/top-news/lisa-mission-passes-review-successfully-and-begins-next-stage-development https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/news-articles/a-supermoon-trilogy 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/

A new national facility at ESO’s La Silla Observatory has successfully made its first observations. The ExTrA telescopes will search for and study Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby red dwarf stars. ExTrA’s novel design allows for much improved sensitivity compared to previous searches. Astronomers now have a powerful new tool to help in the search for potentially habitable worlds. This short ESOcast showcases this new facility. The video is available in 4K UHD. The ESOcast Light is a series of short videos bringing you the wonders of the Universe in bite-sized pieces. The ESOcast Light episodes will not be replacing the standard, longer ESOcasts, but complement them with current astronomy news and images in ESO press releases. More information and download options: http://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1803a/ Subscribe to ESOcast in iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/esocast-hd/id295471183?mt=2 Receive future episodes on YouTube by pressing the Subscribe button above or follow us on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/esoastronomy Watch more ESOcast episodes: http://www.eso.org/public/videos/archive/category/esocast/ Find out how to view and contribute subtitles for the ESOcast in multiple languages, or translate this video on YouTube: http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/partnerships/translators/ Credit: ESO Editing: Nico Bartmann. Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida. Written by: Nicole Shearer and Richard Hook. Music: Music written and performed by: John Stanford (johnstanfordmusic.com). Footage and photos: ESO, L. Calçada, spaceengine (spaceengine.org), M. Kornmesser, P. Horálek, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), I. Crossfield. Directed by: Nico Bartmann. Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.

Well-known exoplanet researcher Michel Mayor announced on 21 April 2009 the discovery of the lightest exoplanet found so far. The planet, “e”, in the famous system Gliese 581, is only about twice the mass of our Earth. The team also refined the orbit of the planet Gliese 581 d, first discovered in 2007, placing it well within the habitable zone, where liquid water oceans could exist. These amazing discoveries are the outcome of more than four years of observations using the most successful low-mass-exoplanet hunter in the world, the HARPS spectrograph attached to the 3.6-metre ESO telescope at La Silla, Chile. More episodes of the ESOcast are also available. Find out how to view and contribute subtitles for the ESOcast in multiple languages, or translate this video on Youtube. More information and download options: http://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso0915a/ Subscribe to ESOcast in iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/esocast-hd/id295471183?mt=2 Receive future episodes on YouTube by pressing the Subscribe button above or follow us on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/esoastronomy Watch more ESOcast episodes: http://www.eso.org/public/videos/archive/category/esocast/ Find out how to view and contribute subtitles for the ESOcast in multiple languages, or translate this video on YouTube: http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/partnerships/translators/ Credit: Visual design and editing: Martin Kornmesser, Luis Calçada and Andre Roquette. Cinematography: Peter Rixner. Editing: Herbert Zodet. Web and technical support: Lars Holm Nielsen and Raquel Yumi Shida. Written by: Henri Boffin and Colleen Sharkey Host: Dr. J. Narration: Gaitee Hussain. Music: movetwo. Footage and photos: ESO. Directed by: Herbert Zodet and Colleen Sharkey. Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen    ESOcast HD (High Definition - 1280 x 720)  ESOcast SD (Standard Definition - 640 x 480)  ESOcast HD (High Definition) in iTunes  ESOcast SD (Standard Definition) in iTunes

We've been looking forward to sharing this one with you... Last year, we started thinking about what it would take to detect mountains, valleys and volcanoes - surface topography - on an exoplanet. It seemed like a crazy idea at the time but we decided to make the calculation for fun and were surprised that it may actually be feasible in the not too distant future. Moiya McTier of the Cool Worlds Lab explains how we started thinking about this and our novel method for attempting to detect such features. As always, we look forward to answering your questions you may have about our research - Have a great day! ::More about this Video:: ► McTier & Kipping, 2018, "Finding Mountains with Molehills: The Detectability of Exotopography": ► Intro landscape videos from Teton Gravity Research (https://vimeo.com/121045965), Sam Cossman (https://vimeo.com/105192180), Karim Iliya (https://vimeo.com/174796140) and David (https://vimeo.com/175777474). ► Orbital video footage from NASA/ISS ► Mars footage from NASA/JPL/University of Arizona ► Thumbnail image credit: Michael S. Helfenbein ► Cool Worlds Lab website: http://coolworlds.astro.columbia.edu ► Columbia University Department of Astronomy: http://www.astro.columbia.edu ► Intro song is "Reverence" by Triad, licensed through SoundStripe.com: https://app.soundstripe.com/songs/754 ► Background song is "Waking Up" by Atlas, licensed through SoundStripe.com: https://app.soundstripe.com/songs/3984 ::Playlists For Channel:: Latest Cool Worlds Videos ► http://bit.ly/NewCoolWorlds Cool Worlds Research ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsResearch Guest Videos ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsGuests Q&A Videos ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsQA Tabby's Star ► http://bit.ly/TabbysStar Science of TV/Film ► http://bit.ly/ScienceMovies ::Follow us:: SUBSCRIBE to the channel http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsSubscribe Cool Worlds Lab http://coolworlds.astro.columbia.edu Twitter https://twitter.com/david_kipping Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cool.worlds THANKS FOR WATCHING!!