Astronomy Cast Ep. 512: Direct Imaging of Exoplanets

Join +Fraser Cain and +Pamela Gay for a live episode of Astronomy Cast. We'll record our 30-minute show, and then stay tuned for them to answer questions!

Finding planets is old news, we now know of thousands and thousands of the places. But the terrible irony is that we can only see a fraction of the planets out there using the traditional methods of radial velocity and transits. But the new telescopes will take things to the next level and image planets directly.

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[davidmcfadden]

Exoplanets have got to be the most exciting field in astronomy right now. So thanks for this episode!

[Teresa-gflz]

Pamela shocked to hear her “Hi Susie” in epic proportions made my day😆😂

[cuteswan]

“If you give a dog a leafblower, she's going to ask for a lawnmower…”

[pyro]

"I can say whatever the fuck I feel like" - Pamela Gay 2019
I replayed that more times than I care to admit. lol. It's almost exactly how I feel about this whole situation. I just don't give a fuck anymore.
I live far enough out in the sticks that most of this doesn't affect me anyways, so it's not really a big deal.

[phoule]

Professor Kipping's Cool Worlds YouTube channel has lots of great exoplanet videos, and Event Horizon just did an interview with him, too.

[duncansargent]

I have a simple question for you.
If one of the big moons of one of our planets, say from Jupiter, Saturn, or even our own moon was to somehow get perturbed from its planets orbit and just got into orbit arou d the sun itself, would it become a planet in its own right given that some are quite big and spherical and that the whole cleari g of the orbit thing has been debunked? Also, if say Mars was somehow to be captured by Jupiter would it loose planet status and then be called the Moon Mars? Does this mean the difference in some respects between large moons and planets is simply do they orbit each other or the Sun, but essentially they are the same thing?

[zapfanzapfan]

Pamela has an arena voice :-)

2 weeks later, still shut down...