Daniel Apai's Blog on Exoplanet Exploration and Astrobiology
On October 4, we had a great evening in Sedona’s Explorers Club Live Event “From the Edge of Space to the Depths of the Ocean”! I spoke about the progress in exoplanet discovery and characterization, and the technological advances that set us on a trajectory toward an exciting future: the Pandora SmallSat (which we are launching…
With Pandora swiftly moving closer to launch, Mission Operation Center lead Karl Harshman and I (as Uof A PI, and Lead of the Pandora Exoplanets Science Working Group) spoke with KOLD13 news about the mission’s science goals.
After months of preparation and sorting out the logistics, it is finally here! With the arrival of a special instrument to Tucson, I am very excited to start a new lab for our Nautilus Space Observatory project at The University of Arizona. The crate weighs about as much as an elephant and holds a cutting-edge,…
I particularly like Frost’s illustration from 1846 which shows how planetary systems were thought to look like in a post-Newtonian universe: in essence, Frost’s universe is filled with copies of the solar system – planets orbit each star. Interestingly, 130 years later the Star Wars universe was not that different: the desert planet Tatooine, the…