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TED Talks
TED: Look up for a change | Lucianne Walkowicz
How often do you see the true beauty of the night sky? TED Fellow Lucianne Walkowicz shows how light pollution is ruining the extraordinary -- and often ignored -- experience of seeing directly into space.
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TED: The most mysterious star in the universe | Tabetha Boyajian
Something massive, with roughly 1,000 times the area of earth, is blocking the light coming from a distant star known as KIC 8462852, and nobody is quite sure what it is. As astronomer Tabetha Boyajian investigated this perplexing...
NASA
NASA in Silicon Valley: Podcast Archive 2009: NASA’s Kepler Mission to Look for Earth-like Planets
Originally aired on February 27, 2009, a conversation on the Kepler Mission with Principal Investigator William Borucki, Deputy Principal Investigator David Koch, and Kepler Science Council Member Alan Boss from the Carnegie Institute of...
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Gravity Assist: Exoplanet Hunting with Jon Jenkins
Listen to Chief Scientist Jim Green and a co-investigator on the Kepler and TESS missions, Jon Jenkins, discuss exoplanet-hunting and all the amazing discoveries Kepler has made.
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NASA launch exoplanet seeking satellite
NASA's new planet-hunting satellite will seek out new Earth-like worlds over the next two years. Called the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, the satellite searches for planets which transit in front of a star, causing a dip in its...
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NASA in Silicon Valley: Geert Barentsen Talks About Bringing People Together To Contribute to Exoplanet Science
A conversation with Geert Barentsen, the Guest Observer Office director for the Kepler and K2 mission at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
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NASA in Silicon Valley: Steve Howell, Senior Research Scientist on Astrophysics: NASA in Silicon Valley Podcast
A conversation with Steve Howell, NASA Senior Research Scientist on astrophysics.
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 44, Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Small Steps, Giant Leaps
NASA Deputy Director of Astrophysics Jeff Volosin discusses the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission.
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NASA in Silicon Valley: Doug Caldwell Talks About the Data Pipeline for the TESS Mission
A conversation with Doug Caldwell, instrument scientist for the Kepler Space Telescope, and who’s now working on NASA’s next planet-hunting mission— the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite or TESS.
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NASA in Silicon Valley: Charlie Sobeck Talks About Kepler’s Upcoming End of Flight
A conversation with Charlie Sobeck, Kepler’s former mission manager and now system engineer at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
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NASA’s New Planet Hunter: TESS
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will find undiscovered worlds around bright nearby stars, providing targets where future studies will assess their capacity to harbor life. TESS is a NASA Astrophysics...
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NASA in Silicon Valley: Thomas Barclay: NASA in Silicon Valley Podcast
A conversation with Thomas Barclay, Senior Research Scientist on the Kepler/K2 Mission at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Space Videos: Nasa Kepler Mission
Describes the work of the NASA Kepler Mission to search for potentially habitable planets in outer space. (Length: 7 min. 27 sec.)