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Get to know SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, which recently helped scientists find water on the Moon. SOFIA is a specially-modified Boeing 747SP aircraft that carries a very powerful 106-inch reflecting telescope. Soaring above 40,000 feet allows astronomers to study the Universe in ways that are not possible from the ground. What have scientists discovered from SOFIA’s views beyond Earth’s atmosphere? Learn more about this unique telescope and its role in research from NASA’s Dr. Backman. About Dr. Dana Backman Principal Investigator of NASA’s Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors program. B.Sc. in physics from MIT, Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Hawai’i. Infrared astronomy post-doctoral researcher at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Arizona and at NASA’s Ames Research Center. Professor of physics and astronomy for 12 years at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Employed by the SETI Institute as director of education and public outreach for NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) at NASA-Ames from 2003 to 2016. Has taught courses on introductory astronomy at Santa Clara University and on global climate change in Stanford University’s Continuing Studies Program. Co-author with Michael Seeds of three college introductory astronomy textbooks: “Horizons”, “Foundations”, and “ASTRO”. If you like science, support the SETI Institute! We're a non-profit research institution whose focus is understanding the nature and origins of life in the universe. Donate here: https://seti.org/donate Learn more about the SETI Institute and stay up-to-date on awesome science: - Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/SETIInstitute/ - Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/setiinstitute - Listen to our podcast, Big Picture Science http://www.bigpicturescience.org/ - Subscribe to our newsletter https://seti.org/signup - Buy merchandise from Chop Shop https://www.chopshopstore.com/collections/seti-institute/SETI Don't forget to like and subscribe! Ring the bell for notifications of when we go live.

A live Grudge Report with Star Trek science consultant Dr. Erin Macdonald, Beth Johnson and Franck Marchis in a discussion about the third season of Star Trek: Discovery, followed by a short Q&A with questions from the audience. Erin Macdonald (PhD, Astrophysics) is an internationally recognized space science expert, writer, speaker, and consultant. Her academic research background is in gravitational waves and general relativity. She currently lives in Los Angeles and is working as a writer as well as the science consultant for the Star Trek franchise. If you like the Grudge Report, or just like science, support the SETI Institute! We're a non-profit research institution whose focus is understanding the nature and origins of life in the universe. Donate here: https://seti.org/donate Learn more about the SETI Institute and stay up-to-date on awesome science: - Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/SETIInstitute/ - Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/setiinstitute - Listen to our podcast, Big Picture Science http://www.bigpicturescience.org/ - Subscribe to our newsletter https://seti.org/signup - Buy merchandise from Chop Shop https://www.chopshopstore.com/collections/seti-institute/SETI Don't forget to like and subscribe! Ring the bell for notifications of when we go live. #GrudgeReport #SETILive #STDiscovery #dilithium

NASA’s Mars 2020 mission, including the Perseverance rover, is about to reach its destination: The Jezero crater on Mars. Join us live on February 18 between 11:15am and 12:45pm PST to follow the landing and hear from engineers and scientists directly involved in the mission. Franck Marchis, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, and Beth Johnson, a social media expert at the SETI Institute, will host this special SETI Live. Scheduled Guests: Adrian Brown, NASA HQ, Deputy Program Scientist, Mars2020 Janice Bishop, SETI Institute, Senior Research Scientist Elena Amador-French, JPL, Systems Engineer and Planetary Scientist David Deamer, UCSC, Research Professor Bruce Damer, UCSC, Research Associate Joby Hollis, JPL, Postdoctoral Scholar Pascal Lee, SETI Institute, Planetary Scientist Casey Moore, Maxar Space Robotics,, Space environments specialist Stephan Hunker, Maxar Space Robotics, Mechanical engineering manager Troy Hudson, JPL, Instrument System Engineer David Stafford, JPL, Mechanical Integration Engineer Bill Diamond, SETI Institute, CEO Nathalie Cabrol, SETI Institute, Director of the Carl Sagan Center Guests will discuss their roles with Mars 2020 and Perseverance. These include the site selection, the goal of the mission, some of the instruments onboard the rover, and of course the future of Mars exploration. Remember, landing on Mars is hard, so we need your support. Franck Marchis was hosted at The Archery, a shared workspace in the mission district of San Francisco that houses a public cafe, an exhibition space and supports a community of entrepreneurs, makers and artists. Special thanks to our production members, Pocket Pictures for A/V support. What to expect: Perseverance is scheduled to touch down on Mars on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, at approximately 12:55 p.m. PST (3:55 p.m. EST). During landing, the rover plunges through the thin Martian atmosphere, with the heat shield first, at a speed of over 12,000 mph (about 20,000 kph). A parachute and powered descent slow the rover down to about 2 mph (three-fourths of a meter per second) – this is sometimes referred to as “7 minutes of terror.” A large sky crane then lowers the rover on three bridle cords to land softly on six wheels. Landing on Mars is hard! During the landing, we will share NASA’s stream so we can all watch together. https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/landing/ If you like SETI Live, or just like science, support the SETI Institute! We're a non-profit research institution whose focus is understanding the nature and origins of life in the universe. Donate here: https://seti.org/donate Learn more about the SETI Institute and stay up-to-date on awesome science: - Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/SETIInstitute/ - Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/setiinstitute - Listen to our podcast, Big Picture Science http://www.bigpicturescience.org/ - Subscribe to our newsletter https://seti.org/signup - Buy merchandise from Chop Shop https://www.chopshopstore.com/collections/seti-institute/SETI Don't forget to like and subscribe! Ring the bell for notifications of when we go live. #SETILive #Mars #Perseverance

Last month a team of researchers, including the SETI Institute's Veselin Kostov, announced they had uncovered a unique 6-star system in TESS data, with the help of AI. The three binary stars form a gravitationally-bound system and each pair is producing eclipses. That's six eclipses! What can this system teach us about star formation and why does it matter? Join us in conversation with Veselin to learn more! If you like SETI Live, or just like science, support the SETI Institute! We're a non-profit research institution whose focus is understanding the nature and origins of life in the universe. Donate here: https://seti.org/donate Learn more about the SETI Institute and stay up-to-date on awesome science: - Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/SETIInstitute/ - Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/setiinstitute - Listen to our podcast, Big Picture Science http://www.bigpicturescience.org/ - Subscribe to our newsletter https://seti.org/signup - Buy merchandise from Chop Shop https://www.chopshopstore.com/collections/seti-institute/SETI Don't forget to like and subscribe! Ring the bell for notifications of when we go live. #SETILive #Astronomy #Science

Beth Johnson and Franck Marchis from the SETI Institute discussed season three's finale of Star Trek: Discovery, "That Hope Is You, Part 2." WARNING: This video is full of spoilers. And science. But also spoilers. If you like the Grudge Report, or just like science, support the SETI Institute! We're a non-profit research institution whose focus is understanding the nature and origins of life in the universe. Donate here: https://seti.org/donate Learn more about the SETI Institute and stay up-to-date on awesome science: - Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/SETIInstitute/ - Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/setiinstitute - Listen to our podcast, Big Picture Science http://www.bigpicturescience.org/ - Subscribe to our newsletter https://seti.org/signup - Buy merchandise from Chop Shop https://www.chopshopstore.com/collect... Don't forget to like and subscribe! Ring the bell for notifications of when we go live. #StarTrekDiscovery #STDisco #Science Star Trek: Discovery is a production of CBS Television Studios, Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment. Seasons 1 and 2 are now available to stream on CBS All Access and is distributed concurrently by CBS Studios International on Netflix in 188 countries and in Canada on Bell Media’s Space channel and OTT service CraveTV.

Margaret Reeb and Franck Marchis from the SETI Institute discussed season five's 10th episode season finale of The Expanse, "The Nemesis Games". WARNING: This video is full of spoilers. And science. But also spoilers. If you like the Grudge Report, or just like science, support the SETI Institute! We're a non-profit research institution whose focus is understanding the nature and origins of life in the universe. Donate here: https://seti.org/donate​ Learn more about the SETI Institute and stay up-to-date on awesome science: - Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/SETIInstitute/​ - Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/setiinstitute​ - Listen to our podcast, Big Picture Science http://www.bigpicturescience.org/​ - Subscribe to our newsletter https://seti.org/signup​ - Buy merchandise from Chop Shop https://www.chopshopstore.com/collect​... Don't forget to like and subscribe! Ring the bell for notifications of when we go live. The Expanse is a production of Alcon Entertainment and Hivemind, based on novels by James S. A. Corey, and distributed by Amazon Prime Video. #SETI​ #TheExpanse​ #Science

Astronomers estimate 400 billion planets orbiting stars in our galaxy, so the Milky Way is full of exoplanets. In the past two decades, researchers have discovered thousands, most of them with NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope and now its successor, the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Some of them are rocky, some are gaseous, and some are very, very odd. But there's one thing each of these strange new worlds has in common: All have advanced scientific understanding of our place in the cosmos. We invited two renowned astronomers who have dedicated their careers to studying exoplanets to share their lists of the top weird exoplanets. Andrew Vanderburg is an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research has led to the recent discovery of a Jupiter-sized exoplanet around a White Dwarf star. Andrew will describe this incredible discovery and its consequences for the search for life beyond Earth. Jessie Christiansen, an astrophysicist with the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech, works on NASA’s TESS to find the nearest planetary systems to Earth. Senior Astronomer Franck Marchis will moderate the conversation. It will be an opportunity to discuss the potential these space oddities have to teach us about the diversity of life we might find in our galaxy one day. #SETITalks #Exoplanets #NASATESS

SETI Institute senior research scientist Janice Bishop has a theory. Based on observations from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, fieldwork at terrestrial Mars analog sites, and lab experiments, Bishop and her team believe that small-scale ice melting in the near-surface regolith is causing changes at the surface that make it vulnerable to dust storms and wind. Join us for a conversation with Janice to learn more. If you like SETI Live, or just like science, support the SETI Institute! We're a non-profit research institution whose focus is understanding the nature and origins of life in the universe. Donate here: https://seti.org/donate Learn more about the SETI Institute and stay up-to-date on awesome science: - Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/SETIInstitute/ - Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/setiinstitute - Listen to our podcast, Big Picture Science http://www.bigpicturescience.org/ - Subscribe to our newsletter https://seti.org/signup - Buy merchandise from Chop Shop https://www.chopshopstore.com/collections/seti-institute/SETI Don't forget to like and subscribe! Ring the bell for notifications of when we go live. #SETILive #Mars #Science

This month, we are asking the members of our Art Imaginarium and any interested artists to create artwork inspired by what many consider the first science fiction story, Johannes Kepler's 'Somnium'. The challenge is presented by the Director of our SETI Artist-in-Residence program, Bettina Forget. Kepler wrote the novel in 1608, and his son published it in 1634. The novel started as a way to defend Copernicus' view of the solar system, with characters on the Moon viewing Earth. Read a translation of the novel, done by the Somnium Project, here: https://somniumproject.wordpress.com/somnium/ The Art Imaginarium is a Facebook group dedicated to the space where art meets science. Why art? Science and art are more closely connected than people might expect, with each offering new perspectives and insights. We’re building a global artistic community where everyone feels safe in expressing themselves and exploring the limits of their imaginations. We hope that this will be a space where people respect both the art and the science. What is art? We do not want to constrain creativity. Want to write a song? Draw in pencil? Create digital art? Bake a cake? Use pasta and beans? Go for it. Each month, we provide members with a challenge theme. How they interpret that theme is entirely up to them. Join the challenge here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheArtImaginariumbySETI/ #SETI​ #ArtImaginarium​ #Somnium

Margaret Reeb and Franck Marchis from the SETI Institute discussed season five's 9th episode of The Expanse, "Winnipesaukee". WARNING: This video is full of spoilers. And science. But also spoilers. If you like the Grudge Report, or just like science, support the SETI Institute! We're a non-profit research institution whose focus is understanding the nature and origins of life in the universe. Donate here: https://seti.org/donate​ Learn more about the SETI Institute and stay up-to-date on awesome science: - Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/SETIInstitute/​ - Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/setiinstitute​ - Listen to our podcast, Big Picture Science http://www.bigpicturescience.org/​ - Subscribe to our newsletter https://seti.org/signup​ - Buy merchandise from Chop Shop https://www.chopshopstore.com/collect​... Don't forget to like and subscribe! Ring the bell for notifications of when we go live. The Expanse is a production of Alcon Entertainment and Hivemind, based on novels by James S. A. Corey, and distributed by Amazon Prime Video. #SETI​ #TheExpanse​ #Science

Finding intelligence in the cosmos might be done simply by paying attention. While SETI scientists look for radio or optical signals, the astronomy community is perennially on the lookout for all types of cosmic phenomena. One example of the latter is the discovery, three years ago, of what was thought to be a previously unknown asteroid. While asteroids are enormously commonplace in our solar system, this object, christened Oumuamua, is clearly from someone else’s solar system. Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has suggested that Oumuamua might not be an asteroid at all, but a type of interstellar craft, sent our way by extraterrestrials. Why does he think this, and what is the larger lesson we should heed in our search for alien intelligence? If you like SETI Live, or just like science, support the SETI Institute! We're a non-profit research institution whose focus is understanding the nature and origins of life in the universe. Donate here: https://seti.org/donate Learn more about the SETI Institute and stay up-to-date on awesome science: - Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/SETIInstitute/ - Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/setiinstitute - Listen to our podcast, Big Picture Science http://www.bigpicturescience.org/ - Subscribe to our newsletter https://seti.org/signup - Buy merchandise from Chop Shop https://www.chopshopstore.com/collections/seti-institute/SETI Don't forget to like and subscribe! Ring the bell for notifications of when we go live. #SETILive #SearchforLife #AreWeAlone

Margaret Reeb and Franck Marchis from the SETI Institute discussed season five's eighth episode of The Expanse, "Hard Vacuum". WARNING: This video is full of spoilers. And science. But also spoilers. If you like the Grudge Report, or just like science, support the SETI Institute! We're a non-profit research institution whose focus is understanding the nature and origins of life in the universe. Donate here: https://seti.org/donate Learn more about the SETI Institute and stay up-to-date on awesome science: - Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/SETIInstitute/ - Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/setiinstitute - Listen to our podcast, Big Picture Science http://www.bigpicturescience.org/ - Subscribe to our newsletter https://seti.org/signup - Buy merchandise from Chop Shop https://www.chopshopstore.com/collect... Don't forget to like and subscribe! Ring the bell for notifications of when we go live. The Expanse is a production of Alcon Entertainment and Hivemind, based on novels by James S. A. Corey, and distributed by Amazon Prime Video. #SETI #TheExpanse #Science

Margaret Reeb and Franck Marchis from the SETI Institute discussed season five's 7th episode of The Expanse, "Oyedeng". WARNING: This video is full of spoilers. And science. But also spoilers. If you like the Grudge Report, or just like science, support the SETI Institute! We're a non-profit research institution whose focus is understanding the nature and origins of life in the universe. Donate here: https://seti.org/donate Learn more about the SETI Institute and stay up-to-date on awesome science: - Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/SETIInstitute/ - Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/setiinstitute - Listen to our podcast, Big Picture Science http://www.bigpicturescience.org/ - Subscribe to our newsletter https://seti.org/signup - Buy merchandise from Chop Shop https://www.chopshopstore.com/collect... Don't forget to like and subscribe! Ring the bell for notifications of when we go live. The Expanse is a production of Alcon Entertainment and Hivemind, based on novels by James S. A. Corey, and distributed by Amazon Prime Video. #SETI #TheExpanse #Science

Margaret Reeb and Franck Marchis from the SETI Institute discussed season five's 6th episode of The Expanse, "Tribes". WARNING: This video is full of spoilers. And science. But also spoilers. If you like the Grudge Report, or just like science, support the SETI Institute! We're a non-profit research institution whose focus is understanding the nature and origins of life in the universe. Donate here: https://seti.org/donate Learn more about the SETI Institute and stay up-to-date on awesome science: - Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/SETIInstitute/ - Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/setiinstitute - Listen to our podcast, Big Picture Science http://www.bigpicturescience.org/ - Subscribe to our newsletter https://seti.org/signup - Buy merchandise from Chop Shop https://www.chopshopstore.com/collect... Don't forget to like and subscribe! Ring the bell for notifications of when we go live. The Expanse is a production of Alcon Entertainment and Hivemind, based on novels by James S. A. Corey, and distributed by Amazon Prime Video. #SETI #TheExpanse #Science

New giant telescopes will allow us to see deeper into space and observe cosmic objects with unprecedented sensitivity. The Arecibo Telescope may have tragically collapsed last year, but it doesn’t mean the end of the era of giants in astronomy. Giant ground-based telescopes currently being built will get their first light this decade. The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) and the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) are revolutionary telescopes that will transform humanity’s view and understanding of the universe. They will provide new observational opportunities in nearly every field of astronomy and astrophysics. These new instruments will observe in wavelengths ranging from the near-ultraviolet to the mid-infrared, allowing astronomers to address fundamental questions ranging from understanding star and planet formation to unraveling the history of galaxies and the development of large-scale structures in the universe. We invited two astronomers whose careers are strongly related to two of these telescopes to discuss their potential and the status of these projects. Rebecca Bernstein is the Chief Scientist for GMT, a next-generation extremely large telescope with seven segmented mirrors that will be 25.4 meters in diameter, making its resolving power more than ten times that of the Hubble Space Telescope. Christophe Dumas is the Observatory Scientist and Head of Operations at the TMT. With its 30 m prime mirror diameter, TMT will be three times as wide, with nine times more area, than the largest currently existing visible-light telescope in the world. Both giant telescope that will allow us to see deeper into space and observe cosmic objects with unprecedented sensitivity. These scientists will discuss the need for large telescopes in today’s modern astronomy, the challenge of building these telescopes and their enclosures, which are rotating buildings, twenty-two-stories tall, and the and instruments for them, which are the size of a European flat. This conversation will include a description of the international consortium’s role in providing political and financial support for the projects. They will also tell us what to expect from these giants and when they will be ready to open their eyes and observe the cosmos. Christophe Dumas joined the TMT in July 2015 as TMT Observatory Scientist and Head of Operations. Previously, he was in charge of the science operations of the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope in the Atacama desert of Northern Chile. His scientific interest is in studying the physical/chemical characteristics of small primitive solar system bodies and how they can inform us about the formation of planetary systems at large. To this end, he mainly uses ground-based infrared spectrophotometry techniques in coordination with high-angular resolution/contrast adaptive optics instrumentation. Christophe earned a degree in engineering from Supelec in 1992 and a PhD in Astrophysics in 1997 from the University Denis Diderot in Paris. Rebecca Bernstein combines observational astronomy with developing new instruments and techniques to study her objects of interest. Her research has included high resolution spectroscopy of stars and extragalactic star clusters to understand the formation and evolution of galaxies. She also studies the stellar components of galaxy clusters and is engaged in various projects related to dark matter and dark energy—the invisible matter and repulsive force that make up most of the universe. Bernstein has been involved in numerous other instrument projects. She is currently on the faculty of the Carnegie Observatories and the Chief Scientist for the GMT project, an international consortium where she provides technical and scientific leadership for the design and construction of the telescope.

Beth Johnson and Franck Marchis from the SETI Institute discussed season three's penultimate episode of Star Trek: Discovery, "There is a Tide..." WARNING: This video is full of spoilers. And science. But also spoilers. If you like the Grudge Report, or just like science, support the SETI Institute! We're a non-profit research institution whose focus is understanding the nature and origins of life in the universe. Donate here: https://seti.org/donate Learn more about the SETI Institute and stay up-to-date on awesome science: - Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/SETIInstitute/ - Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/setiinstitute - Listen to our podcast, Big Picture Science http://www.bigpicturescience.org/ - Subscribe to our newsletter https://seti.org/signup - Buy merchandise from Chop Shop https://www.chopshopstore.com/collect... Don't forget to like and subscribe! Ring the bell for notifications of when we go live. #StarTrekDiscovery #STDisco #Science Star Trek: Discovery is a production of CBS Television Studios, Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment. Seasons 1 and 2 are now available to stream on CBS All Access and is distributed concurrently by CBS Studios International on Netflix in 188 countries and in Canada on Bell Media’s Space channel and OTT service CraveTV.

NOTE: Due to technical difficulties, this event was not presented live on YouTube. We bring you the full recording from a different streaming platform, in its entirety. In 2020, we took a cruise to the center of the Milky Way. In 2021, we leave the comfort of our home galaxy and head to the Times Square of the Universe – the Virgo Cluster. Along the way, we will visit a whole zoo of different galaxies, the biggest star factory in the cosmos and nature’s answer to the Death Star. About Dr. Simon Steel Dr. Simon Steel continues to moonlight as a galactic cruise director, but during the day serves as Director of Education and Public Outreach at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. As an astronomer he studied distant galaxies, but spends more time these days thinking about aliens and the search for life in the Universe. If you like science, support the SETI Institute! We're a non-profit research institution whose focus is understanding the nature and origins of life in the universe. Donate here: https://seti.org/donate Learn more about the SETI Institute and stay up-to-date on awesome science: - Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/SETIInstitute/ - Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/setiinstitute - Listen to our podcast, Big Picture Science http://www.bigpicturescience.org/ - Subscribe to our newsletter https://seti.org/signup - Buy merchandise from Chop Shop https://www.chopshopstore.com/collections/seti-institute/SETI Don't forget to like and subscribe! Ring the bell for notifications of when we go live. #SETI #Chabot #Astronomy

What if there was a museum that contained every type of life form in the universe? A place that includes the possible forms alien life might take, from the eerily familiar to the utterly exotic, ranging from the inside of the Earth to the most hostile corners of the universe. This place does not yet exist but it has been digitally created by Melodysheep. Join us on Wednesday Jan. 20 at 10am PST for a special SETI Live with John D. Boswell, aka Melodysheep, a filmmaker, composer, VFX artist, known for his YouTube series named Life Beyond. John will sit down with SETI Institute Senior Astronomer, Franck Marchis, to discuss his recent video named the Museum of Alien Life which already had 7.3 million views on YouTube. John will explain the motivation for this video, the science behind it, the process to make it, and of course the creative content. We recommend you watch the video before the SETI Live here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThDYazipjSI&t=651s&ab_channel=melodysheep https://www.melodysheep.com/ If you like SETI Live, or just like science, support the SETI Institute! We're a non-profit research institution whose focus is understanding the nature and origins of life in the universe. Donate here: https://seti.org/donate Learn more about the SETI Institute and stay up-to-date on awesome science: - Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/SETIInstitute/ - Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/setiinstitute - Listen to our podcast, Big Picture Science http://www.bigpicturescience.org/ - Subscribe to our newsletter https://seti.org/signup - Buy merchandise from Chop Shop https://www.chopshopstore.com/collections/seti-institute/SETI Don't forget to like and subscribe! Ring the bell for notifications of when we go live. #SETILive #SearchforLife #AreWeAlone

Are we too Earth-centric when we search for alien life? Life and the planetary bodies on which it can thrive may be much more diverse than we can imagine. Our Solar System and the exoplanets discovered so far provide us with a first glimpse of what is possible. Seth Shostak explores with Dirk Schultze-Makuch. If you like SETI Live, or just like science, support the SETI Institute! We're a non-profit research institution whose focus is understanding the nature and origins of life in the universe. Donate here: https://seti.org/donate Learn more about the SETI Institute and stay up-to-date on awesome science: - Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/SETIInstitute/ - Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/setiinstitute - Listen to our podcast, Big Picture Science http://www.bigpicturescience.org/ - Subscribe to our newsletter https://seti.org/signup - Buy merchandise from Chop Shop https://www.chopshopstore.com/collections/seti-institute/SETI Don't forget to like and subscribe! Ring the bell for notifications of when we go live. #SETILive #SearchforLife #AreWeAlone