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Marty McGuire, BackyardAstronomyGuy.com & NASA JPL Solar System Ambassador, presents a talk about NASA's TESS mission to the Lehigh Valley Amateur Astronomical Society (LVAAS.org). Thanks to the LVAAS for providing me with a recording of my talk.

Dr. Raja GuhaThakurta joins All Space Considered to talk about Galactic Cannibalism and the role it plays in the formation of complex life. Subscribe now for more All Space Considered clips: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_... All Space Considered is Griffith Observatory’s live science program that is free and open to the public, held the first Friday of every month. Watch All Space Considered videos: https://www.youtube.com/griffithobser... Learn more about All Space Considered on our official site: http://griffithobservatory.org/asc/al... Follow All Space Considered on SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter: https://twitter.com/allspacecnsdrd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AllSpaceCons... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/allspacecon... -Disclaimer- WE DO NOT OWN THE RIGHTS TO THE, VIDEOS, MUSICAL MATERIAL OR PICTURES PRESENT THAT WERE NOT CREATED DIRECTLY BY GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY OR ITS AFFILIATES, ALL CREDIT FOR THIS MATERIAL GOES TO THE ORIGINAL ARTISTS, CREATORS AND COMPOSERS. Fair Use: "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."

Dr. Mark Rayman joins All Space Considered to talk about NASA's DAWN mission, the first mission to orbit two bodies of the asteroid belt. He shares DAWN's incredible findings about two of our solar system's dwarf planets, Ceres and Vesta. Subscribe now for more All Space Considered clips: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=griffithobservatory All Space Considered is Griffith Observatory’s live science program that is free and open to the public, held the first Friday of every month. Watch All Space Considered videos: https://www.youtube.com/griffithobservatory Learn more about All Space Considered on our official site: http://griffithobservatory.org/asc/all_space.html Follow All Space Considered on SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter: https://twitter.com/allspacecnsdrd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AllSpaceConsidered/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/allspaceconsidered/ -Disclaimer- WE DO NOT OWN THE RIGHTS TO THE, VIDEOS, MUSICAL MATERIAL OR PICTURES PRESENT THAT WERE NOT CREATED DIRECTLY BY GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY OR ITS AFFILIATES, ALL CREDIT FOR THIS MATERIAL GOES TO THE ORIGINAL ARTISTS, CREATORS AND COMPOSERS. Fair Use: "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."

Last year, Phil Ball gave a very popular talk at the Ri about quantum mechanics, here's his follow up on quantum entanglement, and our friends Alice and Bob. Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Watch the talk that started the conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7v5NtV8v6I --- A very special thank you to our Patreon supporters who help make these videos happen, especially: Alessandro Mecca, Ashok Bommisetti, bestape, David Lindo, Elizabeth Greasley, Greg Nagel, John Pollock, Lester Su, Osian Gwyn Williams, Radu Tizu, Rebecca Pan, Roger Baker, Sergei Solovev, and Will Knott. --- The Ri is on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheRoyalInstitution and Twitter: http://twitter.com/ri_science and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/royalinstitution and Tumblr: http://ri-science.tumblr.com/ Our editorial policy: http://www.rigb.org/home/editorial-policy Subscribe for the latest science videos: http://bit.ly/RiNewsletter

January 23, 2019 Dr. Alex Filippenko (University of California, Berkeley) reviews his fascinating research career in astronomy, focusing on his work with black holes and with active galaxies and supernovae (exploding stars) -- and their role in helping us determine the ultimate fate of the universe. He also talks about some of the circumstances and people that influenced his work as a scientist, about the importance of education and outreach for the public support of science, and about his work to help ensure the future of Lick Observatory, the first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory in the world.

Dr. Mila Bhattacharya is a senior scientist and Director of the Biomodel Performance Laboratory in the Space Biosciences Research Branch at NASA Ames Research Center in California, USA. Dr. Bhattacharya joined February’s All Space Considered to share what small organisms can teach us about human spaceflight. Subscribe now for more All Space Considered clips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFBYARE3DsuXNWbqmD7qCZg?sub_confirmation=1 All Space Considered is Griffith Observatory’s live science program that is free and open to the public, held the first Friday of every month. Watch All Space Considered videos: https://www.youtube.com/griffithobservatory Learn more about All Space Considered on our official site: http://griffithobservatory.org/asc/all_space.html Follow All Space Considered on SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter: https://twitter.com/allspacecnsdrd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AllSpaceConsidered/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/allspaceconsidered/ -Disclaimer- WE DO NOT OWN THE RIGHTS TO THE, VIDEOS, MUSICAL MATERIAL OR PICTURES PRESENT THAT WERE NOT CREATED DIRECTLY BY GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY OR ITS AFFILIATES, ALL CREDIT FOR THIS MATERIAL GOES TO THE ORIGINAL ARTISTS, CREATORS AND COMPOSERS. Fair Use: "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."

Telescope Talk Hangouts are sponsored by OPT Telescopes: https://bit.ly/2SwhmVB It's time to check back in with our friends from the PLANETS Foundation to see how things are going with the Exolife Finder Telescope. Don't know what that is? Don't worry, we'll catch you up on that too! Subscribe to Launchpad Astronomy Here: https://youtube.com/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

Stuart Eves takes us on a tour of the solar system, covering the evolution of the stars and planets and describing some of the mysteries that we have yet to solve. Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Since the start of the space age in 1957, our understanding of the solar system has increased enormously thanks to both space-based telescopes and spacecraft that have been sent to visit the planets. Although these missions have answered many questions, they have also collected a great deal of information that fundamentally challenges our understanding of the formation and evolution of the solar system. Stuart Eves will explain the mysteries of our local neighbourhood that we have yet to unravel. Stuart Eves is a satellite-system engineer. He has recently joined Vaeros Ltd. after spending 14 years with Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) and 16 years with the UK Ministry of Defence. During his time with the MoD, Stuart initiated the TopSat satellite programme, which established a new world record for ‘resolution per mass of satellite’, and for a time formed part of the space gallery at the Science Museum. He has recently published ‘Space Traffic Control’, a book which describes the measures needed to maintain the space environment and protect satellites from both natural hazards and man-made threats such as space debris. Stuart has an MSc in Astrophysics, a PhD in constellation design, and has been a fellow of both the Royal Astronomical Society and the British Interplanetary Society for more than 25 years. He takes an active interest in all things space, and is thus best described as an ‘astro-nut’! This talk was filmed in the Ri on 15 October 2018. --- A very special thank you to our Patreon supporters who help make these videos happen, especially: Alessandro Mecca, Ashok Bommisetti, bestape, David Lindo, Elizabeth Greasley, Greg Nagel, John Pollock, Lester Su, Osian Gwyn Williams, Radu Tizu, Rebecca Pan, Roger Baker, Sergei Solovev, and Will Knott. --- The Ri is on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheRoyalInstitution and Twitter: http://twitter.com/ri_science and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/royalinstitution and Tumblr: http://ri-science.tumblr.com/ Our editorial policy: http://www.rigb.org/home/editorial-policy Subscribe for the latest science videos: http://bit.ly/RiNewsletter

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The Moon is the next frontier for humanity. Professor Joseph Silk describes the history of lunar exploration since 1969 and future plans for the Moon. A lecture by Joseph Silk, Gresham Professor of Astronomy 30 January 2019 https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/50-years-lunar-exploration The Moon is undoubtedly the next frontier for humanity. The international space agencies are lining up to pursue lunar projects and even develop lunar bases. The potential of the Moon is attracting interest for industrial applications, including mining and tourism. It is essential to avoid many of the mistakes we have made on Earth as we plan the future of lunar exploration. Professor Silk will describe the history of lunar exploration since 1969 and future plans for the Moon. Website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/GreshamCollege Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreshamCollege Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greshamcollege/

Space Law, by Michelle Hanlon, Associate Director of the Air and Space Law Program at the University of Mississippi School of Law. The media and many commercial space companies seek to characterize outer space as a lawless frontier. But there are, in fact, laws that apply in space. The foundations of space law are grounded in general international law and custom; an enduring framework for the regulation of all space activity was established by the Outer Space Treaty, which opened for signature in 1967. Michelle is also the Co-Founder of For All Moonkind, the only organization in the Universe focused on preserving human history in space, starting with Neil Armstrong's bootprint which currently is not protected or even recognized by any international custom, agreement or regulation. Michelle presents an introduction to space law and discusses the challenges new space technologies and missions present to the existing space law regime. From the February 1, 2019 MAS Meeting. Website- http://www.MemphisAstro.org Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/groups/memphisastro/ Twitter- https://twitter.com/society_memphis

Guest Speaker: Dr Simon Peter "Pete" Worden Can we reach the stars? No extraterrestrials have yet visited us – but neither have we stepped out onto the galactic stage. Are we destined to belong to Earth for as long as we survive? Or can we reach the stars? Breakthrough Starshot is a $100 million research and engineering program aiming to lay the foundations for a flyby mission to Alpha Centauri, our nearest star system, within a generation. This is one of several privately-funded global initiatives to answer the fundamental science questions surrounding the origin, extent and nature of life in the universe. The Breakthrough Initiatives are managed by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation.

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s first servicing mission, astronauts Kathryn Thornton and Jeffrey Hoffman told the story of that successful, groundbreaking mission during a livestream event from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center on December 7, 2018. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center This video is public domain and can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12829 See more Hubble videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiuUQ9asub3Ta8mqP5LNiOhOygRzue8kN If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAGoddard Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc

On December 7, 2018, a panel of astronauts from the Hubble Space Telescope’s deployment and five servicing missions celebrated 25 years of servicing with a live discussion from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center about the challenges of working on a telescope in space. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center This video is public domain and can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12829 See more Hubble videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiuUQ9asub3Ta8mqP5LNiOhOygRzue8kN If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAGoddard Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc

233rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Seattle, WA Thursday, 10 January 2019, 2:15 pm PST Welcome Rick Fienberg (AAS Press Officer) The Extreme Transient AT2018cow: Supernova or Tidal Disruption Event? Dan Perley (Liverpool John Moores Univ.) Early Swift Observations of AT2018cow Suggest a Supernova Explosion Liliana Rivera Sandoval (Texas Tech Univ.) Swift Spectra of AT2018cow Suggest a White Dwarf Tidal Disruption Event Amy Lien (NASA/GSFC & Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County) AT2018cow: Millimeter-Wave Radio Observations Suggest a Supernova Anna Ho (Caltech) NuSTAR Sees an X-ray Source in AT2018cow: The Birth of a Compact Object Raffaella Margutti (Northwestern Univ.) Q&A

233rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Seattle, WA Thursday, 10 January 2019, 10:15 am PST Welcome Rick Fienberg (AAS Press Officer) Characterization of Extrasolar Planets with SCExAO/CHARIS on Subaru Thayne Currie & Olivier Guyon (NAOJ/Subaru) A Search for Transiting Planets in NGC 6791 Benjamin Montet (Univ. of Chicago) Multiple Large Impacts Revealed by Variability in the Disk Around a Young Star Kate Su (Univ. of Arizona) Can “Life Find a Way” on the Super-Earth Orbiting Barnard’s Star? Edward Guinan (Villanova Univ.) Q&A

233rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Seattle, WA Wednesday, 9 January 2019, 2:15 pm PST Welcome Rick Fienberg (AAS Press Officer) A Gravitationally Lensed Quasar at the Epoch of Reionization Xiaohui Fan (Univ. of Arizona) Constraining Black Hole Spins Through Observations of Tidal Disruption Events Dheeraj Pasham (MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research) The X-ray Cavity Around a Hotspot in Cygnus A: A Bubble Inflated by a Jet Amalya Johnson (Columbia Univ.) PHANGS-ALMA: Physics at High Angular Resolution in Nearby Galaxies with ALMA Erik Rosolowsky (Univ. of Alberta) Q&A

233rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Seattle, WA Wednesday, 9 January 2019, 10:15 am PST Welcome Kerrin Hensley (AAS Media Fellow) Early Science Results on Fast Radio Bursts from CHIME Vicky Kaspi (McGill Univ.) & Deborah Good (Univ. of British Columbia) A Study of Radio Pulses from the Galactic Center Magnetar Aaron Pearlman (Caltech) Mapping the Contracting Corona in a New Black Hole Transient with NICER Erin Kara (Univ. of Maryland) Q&A

David Arditti gives the skynotes at the BAA 2019 January 26 meeting.

Space Foundation CEO Tom Zelibor to Address the “The State of Space” Zelibor’s remarks will highlight the roles, challenges and opportunities space has for our national, economic and educational security and explore the critical roles our public and private sectors, as well as students, teachers, taxpayers, investors and entrepreneurs, have in the next great human adventure in space.

The Moon is the next frontier for humanity. Professor Joseph Silk describes the history of lunar exploration since 1969 and future plans for the Moon. A lecture by Joseph Silk, Gresham Professor of Astronomy 30 January 2019 1pm (UK time) https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/50-years-lunar-exploration The Moon is undoubtedly the next frontier for humanity. The international space agencies are lining up to pursue lunar projects and even develop lunar bases. The potential of the Moon is attracting interest for industrial applications, including mining and tourism. It is essential to avoid many of the mistakes we have made on Earth as we plan the future of lunar exploration. Professor Silk will describe the history of lunar exploration since 1969 and future plans for the Moon.

I was honored to give the weekly astronomy colloquium at my home department (UW Seattle) a couple weeks ago. Here's my full talk, where I discuss current projects, and future endeavors I'm excited about! MUSIC: Recording Candy: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt1Hr9EK375IRgoUfiK0xHg Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2QC0EtGnUvgBGLa9ox7f4J Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/recordingcandy/ VLOG GEAR: Nikon D7500 Sigma 17-50mm f/2.8 Takstar SGC-598 GorillaPod 5k

This talk was given by George P. Efstathiou, member of the Planck Science Team, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, and Director of the Kavli Institute of Cosmology - Cambridge. Prof. Efstathiou presented the latest results from Planck and spent some time discussing, among other things, the discrepancy in the determination of the Hubble constant between CMB experiments, including Planck, and other approaches like the one used by Nobel Laureate Adam Riess, based on the distance ladder, that disagree at the 3.8 sigma with Planck, and how this could be a hint for new physics. The talk was given on 3 December 2018 at ESA/ESAC, the European Space Astronomy Centre near to Madrid, Spain. This talk was given as part of the regular ESAC Science Seminars. ★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications. Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/SpaceInVideos Follow ESA on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ESAonTwitter On Facebook: http://bit.ly/ESAonFacebook On Instagram: http://bit.ly/ESAonInstagram On Flickr: http://bit.ly/ESAonFlickr ESA is Europe's gateway to space. Our mission is to shape the development of Europe's space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world. Check out http://www.esa.int/ESA to get up to speed on everything space related. Copyright information about our videos is available here: http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Terms_and_Conditions

2019-01-25 - Panel discussion at the Royal Ontario Museum hosted by Dan Riskin between Tim Haltigin of the Canadian Space Agency, Kate Howells of the Planetary Society and the Government of Canada’s Space Advisory Board, Mike Daly of York University, and Kim Tait of the Royal Ontario Museum, about OSIRIS-REx, the mission to return a sample from the surface of asteroid Bennu. Credit: Canadian Space Agency

Phillips Auditorium Laura Lopez The Ohio State University Host: Daniel Castro Abstract: Massive stars have a profound astrophysical influence on the interstellar medium (ISM) throughout their tumultuous lives and deaths. Stellar feedback occurs through a variety of mechanisms: radiation, photoionization heating, winds, jets/outflows, supernovae, and cosmic-ray acceleration. Despite its importance, stellar feedback is cited as one of the biggest uncertainties in astrophysics today, stemming from a need for observational constraints and the challenges of considering many feedback modes simultaneously. In this talk, I will discuss recent studies of feedback on ISM scales, from both a theoretical perspective as well as using multiwavelength observations, to understand the comparative role of different feedback modes and how they vary over time and conditions. Additionally, I will present the latest developments in understanding the importance of cosmic-ray feedback, based on simulations and high-energy observations.

Guest Speaker: Mr Paolo Nespoli The International Astronaut Event is a long-standing highlight in ISU sessions. Members of the general-public will have an opportunity to ask a broad range of questions of our invited astronaut and obtain their autograph. We are delighted to announce that Mr Paolo Nespoli will deliver a presentation on spaceflight and will provide an insight and opinion, with a particular emphasis on the human factors involved in spaceflight as humans gain more experience in long-duration missions in order to prepare for inter-planetary travel. Paolo visited the International Space Station in 2007 as a member of the STS-120 crew and returned for six months from December 2010 to May 2011 with Expedition 26/27. Paolo’s third flight to the Space Station was from July to December 2017 as part of a barter agreement between NASA and Italy’s ASI space agency.

Speaker: Scott Fleming of the Space Telescope Science Institute In April 2018, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) launched and by the summer it was sending back data. What has this planet-hunter found? Dr. Scott Fleming will share several of the first exciting discoveries, plus detail about how the observatory is designed and how it compares to NASA’s Kepler/K2 mission. All of the data from TESS is available in the Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST), which is based at the Space Telescope Science Institute. Host: Dr. Frank Summers Recorded live on Tuesday, January 15, 2019, at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. More information: http://hubble.stsci.edu/about_us/public_talks/

While humanity’s past is firmly grounded on our home planet, the humans of the future may live on the moon, Mars, or interstellar ships bound for distant worlds. To prepare for this cosmic migration, today’s scientists are exploring how living in space affects the human body—right down to DNA—and whether we might tweak our own genome to enhance our ability to live beyond Earth. Come explore the biological future of humanity, as a new era of evolution beckons. PARTICIPANTS: Chris Mason, Caleb Scharf, Ting Wu MODERATOR: Stuart Firestein FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE PROGRAM AND PARTICIPANTS: https://www.worldsciencefestival.com/programs/evolution-beyond-earth/ This program is part of the Big Ideas Series, made possible with support from the John Templeton Foundation. SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF VISIT our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ LIKE us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldscience... FOLLOW us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest TOPICS: Program Introduction 00:07 Introduction of Participants 01:34 Program Begins: Thinking about humans on other planets is hard and terrifying. 02:14 Should we make more gravity? 12:26 Engineering humans for life in space 23:01 Can we actually sustain life on Mars? 34:44 Q&A 45:42 This program was filmed live at the 2017 World Science Festival and edited for YouTube.

Dr. Doug Plata How Quickly Could a Mars Colony Become Completely Earth Independent? From the 21st Annual International Mars Society Convention, held at the Pasadena Convention Center in Southern California from Aug 23-26, 2018. The four-day International Mars Society Convention brings together leading scientists, engineers, aerospace industry representatives, government policymakers and journalists to talk about the latest scientific discoveries, technological advances and political-economic developments that could help pave the way for a human mission to the planet Mars. #MarsHumanSettlement #MarsResources-Manufacture #MarsCommerce-Economics

Kurt Chankaya Use of In-Transit Fuel for GCR Shielding From the 21st Annual International Mars Society Convention, held at the Pasadena Convention Center in Southern California from Aug 23-26, 2018. The four-day International Mars Society Convention brings together leading scientists, engineers, aerospace industry representatives, government policymakers and journalists to talk about the latest scientific discoveries, technological advances and political-economic developments that could help pave the way for a human mission to the planet Mars. #MarsHumanExploration #MarsExplorationTransportSystems #MarsHumanFactors

Anthony Muscatello Terraforming Mars with Self-Replicating Robots and Oxygen From the 21st Annual International Mars Society Convention, held at the Pasadena Convention Center in Southern California from Aug 23-26, 2018. The four-day International Mars Society Convention brings together leading scientists, engineers, aerospace industry representatives, government policymakers and journalists to talk about the latest scientific discoveries, technological advances and political-economic developments that could help pave the way for a human mission to the planet Mars. #MarsTerraforming #MarsInSituResourceUtilization #MarsMaterials

Black Holes and Other Dark Matters Marc Kamionkowski of Johns Hopkins University In February 2016, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced discovery of the merger of two black holes, each of which weighed around 30 times the mass of the Sun. In addition to being the first detection of gravitational waves, it was also the first observational evidence of stellar mass black holes above 25 solar masses. Shortly thereafter, it was speculated that these black holes might make up the dark matter that has long been known to exist in galaxies (like our own Milky Way). Dr. Kamionkowski will discuss this possibility and explain why this hypothesis may or may not work. Host: Dr. Frank Summers Recorded live on Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. More information: http://hubble.stsci.edu/about_us/public_talks/

Gerald Voecks An Alternative, Broad Scope to ISRU Plans for Mars From the 21st Annual International Mars Society Convention, held at the Pasadena Convention Center in Southern California from Aug 23-26, 2018. The four-day International Mars Society Convention brings together leading scientists, engineers, aerospace industry representatives, government policymakers and journalists to talk about the latest scientific discoveries, technological advances and political-economic developments that could help pave the way for a human mission to the planet Mars. #MarsInSituResourceUtilization

H. Raven Rose Mars or Bust: How Science Fiction Films Will Promote Mars Colonization Reality From the 21st Annual International Mars Society Convention, held at the Pasadena Convention Center in Southern California from Aug 23-26, 2018. The four-day International Mars Society Convention brings together leading scientists, engineers, aerospace industry representatives, government policymakers and journalists to talk about the latest scientific discoveries, technological advances and political-economic developments that could help pave the way for a human mission to the planet Mars. #MarsOutreach #MarsScienceFictionMovies

Dr. Julio Francisco Dantas de Rezende Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Habitat Marte - Brazil From the 21st Annual International Mars Society Convention, held at the Pasadena Convention Center in Southern California from Aug 23-26, 2018. The four-day International Mars Society Convention brings together leading scientists, engineers, aerospace industry representatives, government policymakers and journalists to talk about the latest scientific discoveries, technological advances and political-economic developments that could help pave the way for a human mission to the planet Mars. #MarsAnalogStations #MarsOutreach

Kent Nebergall Settling Mars while Protecting Science and Exobiology From the 21st Annual International Mars Society Convention, held at the Pasadena Convention Center in Southern California from Aug 23-26, 2018. The four-day International Mars Society Convention brings together leading scientists, engineers, aerospace industry representatives, government policymakers and journalists to talk about the latest scientific discoveries, technological advances and political-economic developments that could help pave the way for a human mission to the planet Mars. #MarsPlanetaryScience #MarsSearchForLife #MarsHumanSettlement

Kent Nebergall Reverse Engineering SpaceX - Accelerate Like Elon From the 21st Annual International Mars Society Convention, held at the Pasadena Convention Center in Southern California from Aug 23-26, 2018. The four-day International Mars Society Convention brings together leading scientists, engineers, aerospace industry representatives, government policymakers and journalists to talk about the latest scientific discoveries, technological advances and political-economic developments that could help pave the way for a human mission to the planet Mars. #MarsSettlementTransportationSystems #MarsSpaceXTransport #MarsSpaceX

Heidi Hecht Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain as an Interplanetary Financial System From the 21st Annual International Mars Society Convention, held at the Pasadena Convention Center in Southern California from Aug 23-26, 2018. The four-day International Mars Society Convention brings together leading scientists, engineers, aerospace industry representatives, government policymakers and journalists to talk about the latest scientific discoveries, technological advances and political-economic developments that could help pave the way for a human mission to the planet Mars. #MarsCommerce-Economics

Art Harman Liberty in Space From the 21st Annual International Mars Society Convention, held at the Pasadena Convention Center in Southern California from Aug 23-26, 2018. The four-day International Mars Society Convention brings together leading scientists, engineers, aerospace industry representatives, government policymakers and journalists to talk about the latest scientific discoveries, technological advances and political-economic developments that could help pave the way for a human mission to the planet Mars. #MarsGovernment

Art Harman President Trump's Space Policy From the 21st Annual International Mars Society Convention, held at the Pasadena Convention Center in Southern California from Aug 23-26, 2018. The four-day International Mars Society Convention brings together leading scientists, engineers, aerospace industry representatives, government policymakers and journalists to talk about the latest scientific discoveries, technological advances and political-economic developments that could help pave the way for a human mission to the planet Mars. #MarsMissionObjectives #MarsHumanExploration

Art Harman "LOP-G" or "Boots on the Poles?" Which is the right path to Mars? From the 21st Annual International Mars Society Convention, held at the Pasadena Convention Center in Southern California from Aug 23-26, 2018. The four-day International Mars Society Convention brings together leading scientists, engineers, aerospace industry representatives, government policymakers and journalists to talk about the latest scientific discoveries, technological advances and political-economic developments that could help pave the way for a human mission to the planet Mars. #MarsMissionPlanning

Hannah Earnshaw In Search of a Martian Faith From the 21st Annual International Mars Society Convention, held at the Pasadena Convention Center in Southern California from Aug 23-26, 2018. The four-day International Mars Society Convention brings together leading scientists, engineers, aerospace industry representatives, government policymakers and journalists to talk about the latest scientific discoveries, technological advances and political-economic developments that could help pave the way for a human mission to the planet Mars. #MarsSociety #MarsPhilosophy-Ethics

In HD1080p/30fps Host: Martin Elvis Speaker: Jason Wright (Penn State) Precise radial velocity work, responsible for the lion's share of exoplanet discovery pre-Kepler, remains a cornerstone of exoplanetary research and an essential component of validation and characterization of transiting planets such as those that will be discovered by TESS. It is an important tool for the discovery of long-period planets amenable to direct imaging, determining the architecture of exoplanetary systems, conducting a census of the planetary systems closest to the Sun, and the discovery of new transiting planets including temperate terrestrial planets amenable for atmospheric transmission spectroscopy. This work will be performed by a new generation of extremely precise Doppler spectrographs. In the optical, they will have factors of a few better instrumental precision than the current generation and an order of magnitude below the amplitude of stellar noise ('jitter') in even the quietest stars, which moves the problem of sensitivity from the realm engineering to one of stellar astrophysics and astrostatistics. In the infrared, these instruments will probe new regimes, including terrestrial planets in the Habitable Zones of the coolest, closest stars to the Sun. I will focus on two such instruments built at Penn State, the NN-EXPLORE NEID optical spectrograph which will be a facility instrument at Kitt Peak available for public use, and HPF, an infrared spectrograph at the Hobby-Eberly Telescope focused on work with M dwarf planet hosts.

Description: At the center of the Earth, matter is crushed under pressures millions of times higher than we experience here on the surface. Pressures in the cores of stars and giant planets are even more extreme. To understand how the Earth, Jupiter, and even larger planets outside our solar system came to be, we need to understand the behavior of materials in these extreme conditions. Here at SLAC, we have found ways to push matter to these tremendous temperatures and pressures, if only for very short periods of time. This lecture will describe some of the surprising and even bizarre states of matter we can now create in the laboratory. About the Speaker: Emma McBride is a Panofsky Fellow in SLAC’s High Energy Density Science Division. She received her PhD in 2014 from the University of Edinburgh, where she investigated how high pressure can cause simple metals to behave in unexpected ways. She spent two years at the DESY laboratory in Hamburg, Germany, as a postdoctoral researcher, and then came to SLAC as a Peter Paul Ewald fellow. She has developed dynamic shock compression techniques that can drive solids to extreme pressures, as well as methods for analyzing these massively crushed materials using X-ray lasers at DESY and SLAC.

Planetary scientist Dr. Fran Bagenal of the University of Colorado – Boulder discusses how the Juno mission has changed our views of Jupiter. This was the second presentation in the Lunar and Planetary Institute’s 2018–2019 Cosmic Exploration Speaker Series, “The LPI at 50: A Half Century of Solar System Exploration.”

Kepler was NASA’s first mission dedicated to the search for planets around other stars, called exoplanets. The first exoplanet was discovered just 20 years prior to launch, and only a few hundred more were discovered in that time, with most of them inhabitable and more similar to gas giants like Jupiter than Earth. In the nearly ten years since Kepler’s launch, data from the spacecraft has resulted in the detection of thousands of exoplanets, with a multitude of them the size of Earth or smaller, and many of them at the right distance from their star to possibly support life. Thanks to data from Kepler, we now have greater understanding of two terms of the Drake Equation that had eluded us for fifty-seven years --- we now know there are even more planets than stars in our galaxy and that a significant number of them could have the right conditions to be habitable. Thanks to Kepler, we know that Earth is not alone. The odds of humanity not being alone in the cosmos seem high. But there are still a lot of big terms in that simple little Drake Equation to figure out. The search will continue with new space telescopes like TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), and future generation of large space telescopes like JWST (James Webb Space Telescope). We invited Natalie Batalha, Professor at U.C. Santa Cruz, and Doug Caldwell, Senior Research Scientist at the SETI Institute to discuss the state of the search for exoplanets. What did we learn from the Kepler mission? What are the most exotic planetary systems discovered so far? What are the chances of finding extraterrestrial life in the next decade using new telescopes? These are the questions that will be addressed during our special SETI Talk on the end of the Kepler spacecraft on November 13 at 7pm at SRI International, Menlo Park, CA. Join us for a special tribute to the Kepler spacecraft.

Dr. Robert Zubrin (giving a presentation written by Craig Davidson) Why a lunar base is better than the proposed Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway (LOP-G) to advance human space exploration From the 21st Annual International Mars Society Convention, held at the Pasadena Convention Center in Southern California from Aug 23-26, 2018. The four-day International Mars Society Convention brings together leading scientists, engineers, aerospace industry representatives, government policymakers and journalists to talk about the latest scientific discoveries, technological advances and political-economic developments that could help pave the way for a human mission to the planet Mars. #MarsMissionObjectives #MarsMissionPlanning

Dr. Julio Francisco Dantas de Rezende Sustainability in Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) Learning for Mars Settlements From the 21st Annual International Mars Society Convention, held at the Pasadena Convention Center in Southern California from Aug 23-26, 2018. The four-day International Mars Society Convention brings together leading scientists, engineers, aerospace industry representatives, government policymakers and journalists to talk about the latest scientific discoveries, technological advances and political-economic developments that could help pave the way for a human mission to the planet Mars. #MarsMDRS #MarsHumanSettlement

Bill Lewis Earning Cultural Support From the 21st Annual International Mars Society Convention, held at the Pasadena Convention Center in Southern California from Aug 23-26, 2018. The four-day International Mars Society Convention brings together leading scientists, engineers, aerospace industry representatives, government policymakers and journalists to talk about the latest scientific discoveries, technological advances and political-economic developments that could help pave the way for a human mission to the planet Mars. #MarsOutreach #MarsOutreachConcepts #MarsInformationMediaSources

60 years after Sputnik: a critical juncture in humanity’s use of space The use of space for civil (e.g., scientific), commercial, and military purposes has grown enormously in recent years. Near-Earth space is extremely valuable, but it is also very vulnerable, and can easily be ruined by a small number of destructive events. The most valuable orbits and radio bands are becoming crowded. Placing weapons in space could threaten existing space assets and would invite the use of ground-, air- and space-based weapons against such weapons or other space assets, with potentially catastrophic consequences for humanity’s ability to use space. Unless we manage the threats posed by crowding, orbiting debris, and deliberate destructive actions, we will lose the use of space. A combination of informal cooperation and formal agreements seems the best approach for preserving the usefulness of space. Fred Lamb is a Professor of Physics Emeritus at Illinois, a Core Faculty Member in the Program in Arms Control & Domestic and International Security, and an expert on space policy, military uses of space, missile defenses, and anti-satellite weapons. His current scientific research focuses on problems in high energy and relativistic astrophysics.