Space Cowboys | BNR

In this sweeping episode we talk to Anthony Brown, Chair of the Gaia data processing and analysis consortium and researcher at Leiden Observatory - about the huge piles of data this mission is collecting, and the insights its giving us about our own cosmic backyard. ==SHOW NOTES== Impact of meteor on moon during eclipse Blue origin NS-10 launch and landing Gaia app Types of objects found by Gaia F...

All this lead Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb to propose that it might be a product of extraterrestrial technology. His colleague astronomer Seth Shostak knows a thing or two about looking forextraterrestrial life: he works at the SETI institute in Mountain View, CA, where the search for extraterrestrial life is their core business. So we asked Seth what he thinks about Avi's ideas and he tells us in...

==SHOW NOTES== Abandoned Space Hardware: CANCELLED Part Tess discovers new exoplanet Nasa's planetary protection officer The Enceladus LIFE finder mission was proposed as a NASA New Frontiers mission. It is not expected before 2030 . ==PATREON== Please consider supporting us through Patreon, a website designed to fund creators like us to make the content you love. Please sign up and support us ==V...

On New Year's Day the spacecraft New Horizons flew by Ultima Thule, a rock about 30 km in size way beyond Pluto. Images are on their way. In this first episode of Space Cowboys we ask astronomer Rudolf le Poole (and ourselves) what we already know about Ultima Thule, what we can expect of the data News Horizons gathered in the mere hours that the flyby lasted and what's next for this incredible mi...