28: All Exoplanets Are Exciting
We're back for 2019! Welcome to another year of awesome astronomy. In this episode we chat about the Super Wolf Blood Moon (a.k.a. "January-lunar-eclipse-that-was-slightly-bigger-than-average") and the lunar meteorite impacts caught on video during the eclipse. Then Emily gets pretty excited about the First Light data from TESS, everyone's favourite exoplanet-hunting spacecraft — and describes the first three exoplanets found amongst the TESS data. Turns out, all exoplanets are indeed exciting.
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Things we talk about in this episode:
The Super Wolf Blood Moon of 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBWYEffBpW0
Meteorite impact during eclipse: https://www.space.com/43075-blood-moon-2019-meteor-impact-video.html
Future Eclipses: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/list.html
Got some spare dough? Send Emily and Chris to this eclipse! https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2020-december-14
Moon’s shadow on the Earth during solar eclipse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEJuBrRwlU4
TESS website: https://www.nasa.gov/tess-transiting-exoplanet-survey-satellite
Juno mission photography: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/Juno
TESS First Light: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1523/first-light-tess-shares-first-science-image-in-hunt-to-find-new-worlds/
First exoplanets from TESS data: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1542/nasas-tess-rounds-up-its-first-planets-snares-far-flung-supernovae/
Gamma Dor stars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_Doradus_variable