Aurora is a research scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at IPAC/Caltech and also works as a scientist on the NASA Exoplanet Archive.  Aurora is primarily an observational astronomer and her research interests include exoplanets atmospheres and brown dwarfs.  

In this episode Ben and Aurora discuss nervous launch moments, the difference between a red and a brown dwarf and what it means to get “JWST time”!

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OUTLINE:

Here’s approximate timestamps for the episode.

00:19 Spaced Ventures - Invest in companies like Princeton Satellite Systems, Inc

01:22 Introduction to Aurora Kesseli

2:02 Artemis 1

04:00 NASA Exoplanet Archive

04:48 The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

08:24 NASA Exoplanet Archive secrecy?

09:49 What are Brown Dwarfs?

12:28 Day in the life of Aurora

14:12 Space telescopes!

15:45 Where to point JWST?

18:40 How does JWST work?

20:32 Earth 2.0

26:08 Outreach 

28:58 Favourite Sci-Fi and predicting the future

33:34 Wrap up and socials

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