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setiinstitute, 14 hours ago to space

#ICYMI: The Nova of a Lifetime

This week on #SETILive, communications specialist Beth Johnson chatted with Dr. Tom Esposito, SETI researcher and Lead of the Unistellar Cosmic Cataclysms program, about the impending nova of T Coronae Borealis and the scientific efforts to catch it!

WATCH: https://youtube.com/live/L4OQP5M0GBI

#nova #space #science #scicomm

setiinstitute, 1 day ago to SciComm

https://www.space.com/can-alien-life-exist-planet-rings
One locale that few scientists have considered for life is the set of rings that crown Jupiter, outside the gas giant's atmosphere. These rings, like those that circle all of our solar system's gas giants, are actually belts composed mainly of water-ice particles, some as small as grains of sand, others as large as mountains. Might life exist there?

#seti #arewealone #lifebeyondearth #scicomm

setiinstitute, 1 day ago to photography

#PPOD: In dark evening skies over June Lake, northern hemisphere, planet Earth, Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks stood just above the western horizon on March 30. Its twisted turbulent ion tail and diffuse greenish coma are captured in this two-degree wide telescopic field of view along with the bright yellowish star Hamal also known as Alpha Arietis. Credit: Dan Bartlett via APOD

#comet #photography #science #scicomm

setiinstitute, 2 days ago to science

https://www.astronomy.com/science/what-happens-when-we-detect-alien-life-2/

We’ve never heard a peep from aliens. But improved technology is speeding up the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI), so what happens if today’s silence suddenly gives way to tomorrow’s discovery of alien life? Would the world rejoice in the news that someone’s out there? Would euphoria engulf humanity, as Nobel Prizes are doled out like after-dinner mints?

#seti #science #scicomm

setiinstitute, 2 days ago to SciComm

Next #SETILive: The Nova of a Lifetime
TODAY, 9 May, 2:30 PM PST

Observers with the SETI/Unistellar Network have been watching T Coronae Borealis since last summer and now monitor it daily through the Cosmic Cataclysms citizen science program. Join communications specialist Beth Johnson as she talks to Dr. Tom Esposito, SETI researcher and Lead of the Cosmic Cataclysms program, about this exciting nova and the efforts to catch it!

WATCH LIVE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4OQP5M0GBI&ab_channel=SETIInstitute

#scicomm #space #science

setiinstitute, 2 days ago to space

#PPOD: This is how NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft saw Neptune, the other blue planet, in true color on 17 August 1989, based on a re-analysis of the original data by Patrick G J Irwin et al 2024. Credit: NASA/Voyager 2/PDS/OPUS/Ardenau4

#space #science #neptune #scicomm

setiinstitute, 2 days ago to Podcast

The invention of the screw was over 2300 years ago. Yet this simple object remains the fastener in nearly every modern-day invention. This week, Big Picture Science unwinds the history and importance of ingenious and deceptively simple devices in: “Nuts and Bolts”.

Listen here: https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/nuts-and-bolts

#podcast #stem #scicomm #science

setiinstitute, 3 days ago to ai

https://spectrum.ieee.org/artificial-general-intelligence-2668132497

Thinking about artificial general intelligence (AGI) calls to mind another poorly understood and speculative phenomenon with the potential for transformative impacts on humankind. We believe that the SETI Institute’s efforts to detect advanced extraterrestrial intelligence demonstrate several valuable concepts that can be adapted for AGI research.

#seti #ai #agi #scicomm #science

setiinstitute, 3 days ago to random

JOIN US VIRTUALLY for this year's Drake Awards, MAY 16 AT 6:30 PM PST.

Mingle online with special guest, Paul Horowitz, 2021 Drake Award recipient, who is eager to find out why this year's Drake Award recipient, Andrew Siemion, thinks first contact is imminent...!

Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer of the SETI Institute and host of the virtual event, guarantees an electrifying night ablaze with cosmic thrills and provocative conversation.

Get your virtual ticket today: https://events.idonate.com/drakeawardsvirtual2024

setiinstitute, 3 days ago to space

#PPOD: The JunoCam instrument on NASA’s Juno captured this view of Jupiter’s moon Io — with the first-ever image of its south polar region — during the spacecraft’s 60th flyby of Jupiter on April 9, 2024, revealing mountains and lava lakes. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS; Image processing: Gerald Eichstädt/Thomas Thomopoulos

#jupiter #space #science #scicomm #citizenscience

setiinstitute, 4 days ago to SciComm

JOIN US VIRTUALLY for this year's Drake Awards

WHEN: MAY 16 AT 6:30 PM PST

HOSTED BY SETH SHOSTAK
Join Seth Shostak, host of the virtual program, and explore his provocative
proclamation:

“When we find extraterrestrial life, humanity will enter a new era…”

Get your tickets: https://events.idonate.com/drakeawardsvirtual2024

#seti #virtualevent #scicomm #drakeequation

setiinstitute, 4 days ago to Artist

The SETI Institute is accepting proposals for the Cosmic Consciousness Literary Residency for 2025/2026.

Submission deadline: 1 July 2024.

This residency invites writers and poets working in the areas of literature, speculative fiction/sci-fi, experimental poetry, and philosophy.

Learn more: https://www.seti.org/seti-air-program-call-submissions

#seti #setiair #sciart #artist

setiinstitute, 4 days ago to random

#PPOD: This photograph was taken by astronaut Alex Gerst on September 8, 2014, from the International Space Station. The ISS was over Libya at the time, and Gerst was looking south-southwest over a storm that stretched hundreds of kilometers across the sand seas of the Sahara. In the photo, winds appear to be coming out of the east or northeast (left), and the sun is setting to the west (right in this image). Credit: NASA/ESA/A. Gerst

setiinstitute, 5 days ago to science

#PPOD: Martian Rhapsody in Blue

Some mind-boggling details of a Martian impact crater taken by NASA's HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. This image has everything: layers, boulders, dunes, and maybe some polygonal terrain, too. The blue filter is used here to learn about morphologies, textures, and composition.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

#mars #science #space #scicomm

setiinstitute, 5 days ago to Podcast

What’s the big deal about tiny devices like springs and screws? This week, Roma Agrawal shows us how the world as we know it couldn’t function without these simple, but ingenious, objects. It’s “Nuts and Bolts” on Big Picture Science.

Listen here: https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/nuts-and-bolts

#podcast #science #stem #scicomm

setiinstitute, 7 days ago to random

PODCAST: https://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2024-04-30-show/

In the latter half, astronomer Seth Shostak talked about his continued work in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), new ways to make contact with ETs, the importance of new planet discoveries, and all things astronomy and life in space. One intriguing new approach for SETI, beyond radio telescopes, is to piggyback onto other scientific studies in the radio part of the sky's spectrum to see if any of the sounds are not made by nature.

#seti

setiinstitute, 7 days ago to space

#PPOD: This artist's concept illustrates Kepler-16b, the first planet known to definitively orbit two stars -- what's called a circumbinary planet. The planet, which can be seen in the foreground, was discovered by NASA's Kepler mission. The two orbiting stars regularly eclipse each other, as seen from our point of view on Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle

#starwarsday #space #science #scicomm

setiinstitute, 7 days ago to SciComm

JOIN US VIRTUALLY for this year's Drake Awards

WHEN: MAY 16 AT 6:30 PM PST

HOSTED BY SETH SHOSTAK
Join Seth Shostak, host of the virtual program, and explore his provocative proclamation:

“When we find extraterrestrial life, humanity will enter a new era…”

Get your tickets: https://events.idonate.com/drakeawardsvirtual2024

#seti #virtualevent #scicomm #drakeequation

setiinstitute, 9 days ago to SciComm

https://discover.lanl.gov/news/0501-ancient-mars/
A research team using the ChemCam instrument onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered higher-than-usual amounts of manganese in lakebed rocks within Gale Crater on Mars, which indicates that the sediments were formed in a river, delta, or near the shoreline of an ancient lake. The results were published today in Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.

#mars #lifebeyondearth #scicomm #science

setiinstitute, 9 days ago to space

#PPOD: Rising from turbulent waves of dust and gas is the Horsehead Nebula, Barnard 33, which resides roughly 1,300 light-years away, and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured the sharpest infrared images to date. Webb’s new view focuses on the illuminated edge of the top of the nebula’s distinctive dust and gas structure. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, K. Misselt (University of Arizona) and A. Abergel (IAS/University Paris-Saclay, CNRS)

#space #science #scicomm

setiinstitute, 9 days ago to science

Is physics’ Standard Model broken? Einstein’s effect on young minds, and how black holes go away. It’s “Phreaky Physics” on Big Picture Science.

Listen: https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/phreaky-physics

#bipisci #science #physics #scicomm #podcast

setiinstitute, 10 days ago to space

#PPOD: View of the north polar region of Jupiter's moon Io, in approximate natural color, made from images captured with NASA's Galileo spacecraft on March 28, 1998. The background is filled with Jupiter's clouds. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ Galileo Imaging Team/Jason Major

#space #science #scicomm #jupiter

setiinstitute, 11 days ago to science

https://thehoya.com/science/georgetown-conference-explores-the-intersection-of-space-exploration-climate-change/
The Earth at the Crossroads conference brought together scientists, artists, journalists, historians and policymakers to consider how discoveries in extraterrestrial science and exploration inform our response to the climate crisis here on Earth.

#seti #sciart #science #art #scicomm #climatechange

setiinstitute, 11 days ago to SciComm

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a60525416/no-evidence-alien-tech-yet/
Bill Diamond has a point. If alien technology is so advanced that it can reach Earth from a distant location we don’t know exists, that technology likely wouldn’t be so flawed that it would crash-land in the New Mexico desert.

#seti #sciencec #scicomm

setiinstitute, 11 days ago to photography

#PPOD: ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst took this photo of a 13-kilometer (8-mile) wide impact crater in Chad from the International Space Station in 2020. Credit: ESA-A.Gerst

#earth #photography #scicomm #crater