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2022-12-14: How Can Matter Be BOTH Liquid AND Gas?
- 14:11: All of that is buried beneath extremely thick atmospheres of gas-phase mostly-hydrogen.
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2022-10-12: The REAL Possibility of Mapping Alien Planets!
- 00:33: ... is helping - it can detect different molecules in the atmospheres of exoplanets a bit larger than the Earth. JWST will even take ...
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2022-09-21: Science of the James Webb Telescope Explained!
- 00:19: ... pretty amazing stuff, from colliding galaxies to planets and exoplanet atmospheres to the earliest, most distant galaxies ever ...
- 05:09: ... also let’s us see the atmospheres of planets in other solar systems, which is an important step towards ...
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2022-05-25: The Evolution of the Modern Milky Way Galaxy
- 14:38: ... rocky or icy core forms to start holding on to hydrogen and helium atmospheres. That needs to happen before the star turns on and blasts away all ...
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2022-05-18: What If the Galactic Habitable Zone LIMITS Intelligent Life?
- 03:40: ... planets like the Earth, while the larger collected vast atmospheres of hydrogen and helium and became the gas giants. At the ...
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2020-10-05: Venus May Have Life!
- 03:44: There are lots of ways to do this - for example seeing the effect on a star’s light as it passes through its own planets atmospheres.
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2020-06-08: Can Viruses Travel Between Planets?
- 04:32: ... of alien life is to find signatures of its chemical activity in the atmospheres of alien ...
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2018-12-06: Did Life on Earth Come from Space?
- 00:37: ... of up to hundreds of thousands of GS and hundreds of thousands of Earth atmospheres in shock pressure similar forces apply when it smacks down at the other ...
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2018-10-25: Will We Ever Find Alien Life?
- 02:36: To answer this question, we'll need to look at the composition of their atmospheres.
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2018-08-01: How Close To The Sun Can Humanity Get?
- 05:47: While we've used heat shields before on a spacecraft or rovers for entering atmospheres, this one is different.
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2017-10-19: The Nature of Nothing
- 12:48: But increase the pressure to around 24 atmospheres, and you can make helium ice at around 1.5 kelvin.
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2017-09-13: Neutron Stars Collide in New LIGO Signal?
- 13:56: ... our episode on detecting life by observing extraterrestrial atmospheres, Alex asks whether we can observe the atmosphere of Proxima Centauri B. ...
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2017-08-24: First Detection of Life
- 07:12: While we need to travel far to get high res pics of an exoplanet, we finally succeeded in taking spectra of their atmospheres without leaving home.
- 08:51: Those planets are just too small and their atmospheres too thin for any current telescope.
- 09:21: ... seven exoplanets around TRAPPIST-1, assuming they actually have decent atmospheres. ...
- 10:08: Our first evidence of it is likely to be found in the disequilibria of alien atmospheres.
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2017-08-16: Extraterrestrial Superstorms
- 04:50: ... Earth, the only source of condensation is water, but the gas giants' atmospheres span such a wide range of temperature and pressure that all sorts of ...
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2017-05-31: The Fate of the First Stars
- 09:52: ... through the galaxy, they may have collected enough dust in their atmospheres to disguise themselves as the younger ...
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2017-03-01: The Treasures of Trappist-1
- 04:39: That could be OK for habitability if they have sufficiently thick atmospheres to mix the heat from their sun globally.
- 06:12: The TRAPPIST-1a's winds may have eroded its planet's atmospheres, just as the sun did with Mars.
- 06:34: We don't yet know much about what those planet's atmospheres are like.
- 06:41: All sorts of fascinating nasty compounds can end up in exoplanet atmospheres, all strongly affecting climate temperature and chemistry.
- 06:50: ... has confirmed that the a, b, and h planets don't have hydrogen helium atmospheres, which means they aren't gassy planets like ...
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2017-02-15: Telescopes of Tomorrow
- 07:23: ... of planets in other solar systems and even to observe the spectra of the atmospheres of some ...
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2016-09-14: Self-Replicating Robots and Galactic Domination
- 05:49: It builds fuel collectors-- maybe orbiters to harvest deuterium or tritium from gas giant atmospheres.
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2016-02-03: Will Mars or Venus Kill You First?
- 06:26: Now, the pressure and temperature on the surface, 90 atmospheres and 450 degrees Celsius, will implode and roast you instantly.
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2015-11-05: Why Haven't We Found Alien Life?
- 07:38: These planets will have atmospheres driven by biotic processes.
- 07:42: ... we could analyze light passing through these atmospheres, we would see signatures of oxygen, ozone, methane, nitrous oxide at ...
- 07:38: These planets will have atmospheres driven by biotic processes.
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2015-08-05: What Physics Teachers Get Wrong About Tides!
- 09:24: ... College of Staten Island-- had done a very similar talk about exoplanet atmospheres. ...
- 09:49: ... down in the description, you'll see a link to her talk about alien atmospheres-- it's very good-- at the NASA Space Apps Challenge, along with a link to ...
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2015-06-03: Is Gravity An Illusion?
- 10:20: When it launches in 2018, will it be able to characterize exoplanetary atmospheres?
- 11:08: ... systems form, of how proximity to different kinds of stars affects the atmospheres of planets, and so forth-- the prospect for life, ...
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2015-05-27: Habitable Exoplanets Debunked!
- 01:56: But to make a more definitive assessment of habitability, actual habitability, for any of these exoplanets, you have to analyze their atmospheres.
- 02:05: We don't know anything about the atmospheres of any of the so-called Earth-like habitable worlds that get reported in the press.
- 02:12: In fact, we can't be certain that they even have atmospheres at all.
- 03:39: Could we measure properties of their atmospheres and locate a truly habitable world like that?
- 05:34: ... planet finder, or TPF, a space telescope that could have analyzed the atmospheres of Earth-sized planets in Earth-like orbits around Sun-like like ...
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2015-03-04: Should We Colonize Venus Instead of Mars?
- 03:31: It's over 90 Earth's atmospheres.
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