exocast

On the 31th episode of Exocast:

• Hugh is joined in the virtual exocast studio by Science Journalist Lee Billings a writer for Scientific American and author of “5 billion years of Solitude”.
• Andrew dives into waterworlds inside and outside of our solar system and what we can learn about habitability.
• Hannah takes a look at what exoplanet news had been released over the past months and highlights the great work done by furloughed US scientists who keep the Hubble Space Telescope alive and healthy.
• And Lee, adopts the newly discovered Barnard’s Star b into the Exocast Adopted Planets family and promises to keep a good eye on it in the coming years for us.

On the 30th episode of Exocast:

• Andrew is joined in the virtual exocast studio by Dr Jessie Christiansen from Caltech/NExSci to talk a little about her work on exoplanet demographics, catalogs, public outreach, and citizen science.
• Hannah provides an overview of last month’s #exocup, giving us a run down on the stats, the winners, losers, surprises and lessons learned.
• Hugh takes a look at what other exoplanet news had been released over the past month.
• And Jessie, to the chagrin of some and the appreciation of others, chose ‘the Next Planet’ as her adopted world – find out why and what she meant on the show.

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On the 28th episode of Exocast, returning from a month’s break:

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