We saw your wobble
Episode 40
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Audio file
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March 24th, 2017
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1 hr 2 mins
How do we see things in space?
- TRAPPIST-1: "Presenting humanity with many opportunities to study terrestrial worlds beyond our solar system" (TRAPPIST-1)
- TRAPPIST-1 (Wikipedia)
- What is astronomy? (Space.com)
- How do (visual) telescopes work? (How Stuff Works, Science)
- Galileo Galilei (Wikipedia)
- Four of Jupiter's 67 moons, Io, Europa, Ganymede & Callisto, are known as the 'Galilean' moons (Wikipedia)
- Galilieo got in big trouble from the church for saying that the Earth was not the centre of everything (Wikipedia)
- Galileo gives an eternal bird to the church: His middle finger is displayed in a jar in Florence (Wikipedia)
- The Galilean moons have regular orbits, but most of Jupiter's moons have orbits that are a bit random (Wikipedia)
- The electromagnetic spectrum (Cosmos)
- The electromagnetic spectrum & telescopes (NASA)
- It takes more than one kind of telescope to see the light (NASA)
- Observatories across the electromagnetic spectrum (NASA)
- A list of all the space telescopes (Wikipedia)
- A list of the oldest observatories on Earth (Wikipedia)
- How do telescopes let us see so far into space? (BBC, Science)
- How scientists get data from the universe, process it, archive it & analyse it (NASA)
- Hubble Space Telescope: Detects near infrared, visible & ultraviolet light (Wikipedia)
- Hubble Site (NASA)
- A fresh take on the Horsehead Nebula (Hubble Space Telescope, ESA)
- Making images out of different kinds of raw data from space (NASA)
- The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (CSIRO, Australia Telescope National Facility)
- The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (Cosmos)
- Main sequence stars (CSIRO, Australia Telescope National Facility)
- Main sequence lifetime (Cosmos)
- Detecting other worlds: The wobble method (SETI)
- How can you tell between different types of stellar wobble? (The Naked Scientists)
- "The Sun is a G-type main-sequence star (G2V) based on its spectral class, & is informally referred to as a yellow dwarf" (Wikipedia)
- Spectra & what they can tell us (NASA)
- Astronomical spectroscopy (Wikipedia)
- What is a stellar nursery? (wiseGEEK)
- An image of a stellar nursery (NASA)
- ‘Space beacons’ reveal the Milky Way’s very old core (Space Answers)
- A timeline of the TRAPPIST-1 discoveries & the telescopes involved (TRAPPIST-1)
- The James Webb telescope (NASA)
- Kepler Space Telescope: Exoplanet hunter (Space.com)
- Belgian astronomers celebrated the discovery of the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet system with Trappist beer (Wikipedia)
- 5 ways to find a planet (NASA)
- The planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1 were discovered using the 'transit method' of detection (TRAPPIST-1)
- The planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1 are quite close to the star & three are in the habitable zone (Wikipedia)
- What is the Goldilocks Zone & why does it matter in the search for ET? (ABC, Australia)
- Search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI Institute)
- SETI has tried to see if any radio signals are coming from TRAPPIST-1 (Wikipedia)
- Where is the search for extraterrestrial life up to? (ABC, Australia)
- The billion-year technology gap: Could one exist? (The Daily Galaxy)
- Advanced alien civilizations rare or absent in the local universe (Phys.org)
- The hydrogen 21 cm line (HyperPhysics)
- A proper paper about 21cm intensity mapping: "Using the 21 cm line, observed all‐sky & across the redshift range from 0 to 5, the large scale structure of the universe can be mapped in three dimensions" (Cornell University Library, Peterson JB et al.)
- The Very Large Telescope (Wikipedia)
- The Extremely Large Telescope (Wikipedia)
- The Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (Wikipedia)
- The Deep Space Network (NASA, JPL)
- Canberra has several telescopes that are part of the Deep Space Network (NASA)
- The Square Kilometre Array Telescope (SKA, Australia)
- SKA telescope to generate more data than entire internet in 2020 (Computer World)
- SKA amazing facts (SKA)
- "Astrology is the mass cultural delusion that the apparent position of the sun & planets relative to arbitrarily defined "star signs" at the time of your birth somehow affects your personality & future" (Rational Wiki)
- Astrology is still bullshit & the universe doesn't care about you (Gizmodo)
- Flecks of extraterrestrial dust, all over the roof: An amazing article about a Norwegian Jazz musician who collects space dust (The New York Times)
- Where are you from? Send us a postcard! Strange Attractor, c/ PO Box 9, Fitzroy, VIC 3065, Australia
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