Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers
Dr. Jessie Christiansen from the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at IPAC/Caltech interviews the brilliant minds behind the discoveries of planets orbiting other stars.
- Update frequency
- every 15 days
- Average duration
- 12 minutes
- Episodes
- 18
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2024
ExploreExoplanets: TheDiscoverers; Ep. 18 Ben Montet (part 2)
Vanishing Vulcans🌋💨👻
Spock's home planet is probably one of the most famous exoplanets, thanks to Star Trek lore. Turns out, Vulcan has a storied past in our own solar system's history, which Dr. Be…
00:13:52 |
Thu 19 Dec 2024
Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers; Ep. 17 Ben Montet (part 1)
Innocent Until Proven Planet! 🛰️⚖️🪐
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." - Arthur Conan Doyle
Dr. Ben Montet set out to study black ho…
00:13:31 |
Thu 05 Dec 2024
Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers; Ep. 16 Ashley Chontos (part 2)
💙 An Avatar of Pandora? 💙
Did the movie Avatar predict the discovery of the holy grail of exoplanets: a nearby Earth-like rocky planet orbiting a Sun-like star? Drs. Jessie Christiansen and Ashley C…
00:14:03 |
Thu 12 Sep 2024
Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers; Ep. 15 Ashley Chontos (part 1)
Worth the Wait 🛰️⏳📅🪐
NASA's planet-hunting Kepler Telescope found its first planet candidate in 2009. Ten years later, KOI-4.01 was finally confirmed as an exoplanet by a team led by Dr. Ashley Chon…
00:13:03 |
Thu 22 Aug 2024
Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers; Ep. 14 Bruce Macintosh (part 2)
Hollywood 🎥 vs. Kepler-22 b 🪐
Jessie returns to her chat with Dr. Bruce Macintosh, Director of the University of California Observatories, and he explains why Kepler-22 b is his LEAST favorite exopl…
00:14:15 |
Thu 01 Aug 2024
Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers; Ep 13, Bruce Macintosh (Part 1)
Exoplanet Trifecta: Seeing and Believing 🤩👀🔭🪐🪐🪐
What is it like to spend eight years chasing down hundreds of possible planets that turn out to be false positives, and then discover three planets at…
00:13:12 |
Thu 18 Jul 2024
Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers; Ep. 12 David Kipping (part 2)
A Planet Around a Dead, Spinning Star 🌀😵💫
How realistic is the science in Interstellar, and have we found anything close to an actual Miller's Planet? In part 2 of Jessie's interview with Dr. David …
00:14:43 |
Thu 23 May 2024
Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers; Ep. 11 David Kipping (part 1)
Dr. David Kipping of Columbia University, host of the popular Cool Worlds Podcast, is looking beyond exoplanets: he's set his sights on finding exomoons! Watch and find out which exoplanet David thin…
00:14:47 |
Thu 09 May 2024
Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers; Ep. 10 Dr. Emily Gilbert
Is Middle Earth an Exoplanet? 🧝🧙🧭📜🏰⛰️🌋🪐
In part 2 of her interview, Dr. Emily Gilbert makes a convincing case that Middle Earth in the Lord of the Rings series is actually its own planet! Watch and t…
00:12:35 |
Thu 04 Apr 2024
Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers; Ep. 9 Dr. Emily Gilbert
What's better than discovering an exoplanet? How about discovering THREE exoplanets...all at once! Early-career researcher Dr. Emily Gilbert talks about the exoplanet bonanza of the TOI-700 system th…
00:12:08 |
Sat 16 Mar 2024
Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers; Ep. 8 Dr. Peter Plavchan
Is there a planet near the center of our galaxy like Trantor? Jessie shares what she's found in the NASA Exoplanet Archive, and Peter answers a viewer question: "How old do stars have to be to have p…
00:13:07 |
Thu 21 Dec 2023
Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers; Ep. 7 Dr. Peter Plavchan
All Roads Lead to AU Mic ⛔🔭🪐
Despite denial, discouragement and telemarketing jobs, Dr. Peter Plavchan found a path to a career in astronomy...and a famous exoplanet! Join Jessie as she chats with …
00:13:06 |
Thu 14 Dec 2023
Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers; Ep. 6 Dr. Etienne Bachelet
A Real-life Tatooine?🪐☀️☀️
Did Jessie go to a galaxy far, far away to find a real-life counterpart to Tatooine, Etienne's favorite fictional planet?
00:12:16 |
Thu 30 Nov 2023
Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers Ep 5 - Dr. Etienne Bachelet
Jessie chats with Dr. Etienne Bachelet about how stars can bend light, and how we can use that phenomenon to find exoplanets.
00:11:41 |
Thu 09 Nov 2023
Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers Ep 4 - Dr. Jennifer Burt
Jessie continues her chat with Dr. Jennifer Burt of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and reveals whether she's found a real-life Roshar in the NASA Exoplanet Archive or if that multi-planet system is…
00:11:09 |
Thu 26 Oct 2023
Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers Ep 3 - Dr. Jennifer Burt
IPAC's Dr. Jessie Christiansen chats with Dr. Jennifer Burt of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on how she splits starlight into rainbows (a.k.a. Extreme Precision Radial Velocity) to study exoplanet…
00:11:58 |
Thu 12 Oct 2023
Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers Ep 2 - Dr. Charles Beichman
Forbidding and Forbidden Planets: In this second half of Dr. Jessie Christiansen's interview with Dr. Chas Beichman, we find out why Altair 4 is Chas's favorite fictional planet and if there are any …
00:09:49 |
Thu 28 Sep 2023
Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers Ep 1 - Dr. Charles Beichman
Blowtorch On A Planet! In this inaugural episode, Jessie finds out why her boss, Executive Director of the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute Dr. Charles Beichman, is considered a pioneer in exoplanet …
00:11:56 |
Thu 14 Sep 2023
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