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Casey Dreier • December 24, 2013 • 3
This episode highlights the other big idea in Cosmos: that we are profoundly connected with the universe around us. Our constituent parts are forged in the bellies of massive stars; we exist through their deaths.
Casey Dreier • December 17, 2013 • 6
Sagan makes us confront the limitations of our mortality given the immensities of space and time presented to us by the cosmos.
Bruce Betts • August 16, 2013 • 5
Using a Shoemaker NEO Grant a new telescope is operating in Illinois to do asteroid tracking.
Emily Lakdawalla • August 16, 2013
The world's great telescopes capture stunning photographs of stars, nebulae, and other sky phenomena. In Europe to the Stars, authors Govert Schilling and Lars Lindberg Christensen share many such photos. But the real stars of this book are the great telescopes of the European Southern Observatory.
Jason Davis • June 18, 2013 • 6
The European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory received its final commands yesterday, having depleted the liquid helium required to make its infrared observations.
Mat Kaplan • May 26, 2013 • 3
A live conversation about just a few of the powerful new instruments that will revolutionize our knowledge of the cosmos once again.
Mat Kaplan • March 26, 2013 • 6
The extended, mostly unedited recordings of my conversations with many of the people I spoke to at the ALMA Observatory in Chile. Also, the full English translation of Chilean President Sebastian Pinera's speech.
Emily Lakdawalla • March 14, 2013
This week I'll be talking with NEOWISE principal investigator Amy Mainzer about moving objects that the WISE mission has spotted both inside and outside our solar system.
Mat Kaplan • March 02, 2013
The second in a series of audio blogs chronicling my trip to the driest spot on Earth, Chile's Atacama desert, to see the inauguration of the ALMA Observatory. Al Wootten and Alison Peck tell the story of ALMA.
Emily Lakdawalla • February 14, 2013 • 22
How come Hubble's pictures of galaxies billions of light years away are so beautifully detailed, yet the pictures of Pluto, which is so much closer, are just little blobs? I get asked this question, or variations of it, a lot. Here's an explainer.
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