Recorded: 10 March 2017

Released: 11 March 2017

Duration:101 minutes, 7 seconds

 

Host Paul Carr is joined by panelists Buck Field, David Grigg, Nick Nielsen and Patrick Festa to marvel about the recent TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet discovery.

 

For the most detailed show notes, please see our blog at http://unseenpodcast.com

 

Links:

M. Gillon, Seven temperate terrestrial planets around nearby ultra cool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1.

Sky and Telescope: Seven Planet Star hides Age, May be Deadly

NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star

Lingam and Loeb: Enhanced interplanetary panspermia in the TRAPPIST-1 system

6 Animals that can see or glow in ultraviolet

Pit viper infrared vision

Oliver Sacks: The island of the Colorblind

Horseshoe Crab vision

 

Recommendations:

Buck: The ESO Messenger

David: The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel

Nick: https://planetplanet.net/

Patrick: Proxima by Steven Baxter

Paul: DJ Spooky's Optometry

    Credits: 

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Panelists: David Grigg, Patrick Festa, Buck Field, Nick Nielsen

Music: DJ Spooky

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