Perseid Meteor Shower in space
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Perseid Meteor Shower in space
This coming weekend, 12th-13th of August, is a great opportunity to enjoy the Perseid meteor shower because the light from the Moon will not disturb the view.
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REU Students give SETI Talk on Wednesday August 16, 2017. The REU program is in its 12th year at the SETI Institute. Students who have previously participated in this program have gone on to pursue advanced degrees in the sciences, published papers in peer-reviewed journals, become researchers, teachers, science writers and more.
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Big Picture Science Radio Show - Skeptic Check: Busting Myths with Adam Savage
Can an opera singer’s voice really shatter glass? Can you give your car a rocket-assisted boost and survive the test drive? Now that the series has ended after a 16 year run, co-host Adam Savage tells us how it all began, how he and Jamie Hyneman walked the line between science and entertainment, and why he considers himself a scientist but not a “skeptic.”
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Where in the Worlds has SETI Institute Been? July 23 - 29, 2017
A roundup of SETI Institute in the media.
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What Happens Next If We Find Proof of Space Aliens?
First came the suggestion that an “alien megastructure” had been observed around KIC 8462852, a.k.a. Tabby’s Star. Months later, people were talking about a signal seen by a Russian telescope that some thought was transmitted from the environs of a stellar cousin of the sun.
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New Laser SETI project will look for signals that most telescopes cannot see
Big discoveries in science are often made when innovative instruments probe nature in new ways. Laser SETI will search the sky for a variety of pulsed light signals that might have been overlooked before. We may find ET, and we also may find new physics.
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Where in the Worlds has SETI Institute Been? July 16 - 22, 2017
A roundup of SETI Institute in the media.
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If you don’t know about the total solar eclipse coming up in August, then it’s likely you also don’t know that winter’s over or that Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom have split.
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Where in the Worlds has SETI Institute Been? July 9 - 15, 2017
A roundup of SETI Institute in the media.
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Signals from A Nearby Star System? (Updated)
In May, radio astronomers at the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico pointed their Brobdingnagian antenna in the direction of Ross 128. What the Puerto Rican astronomers found when the data were analyzed was a wide-band radio signal.
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Where in the Worlds has SETI Institute Been? July 9 - 15, 2017 A roundup of SETI Institute in the media. July 21, 2017 |
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Signals from A Nearby Star System? (Updated) In May, radio astronomers at the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico pointed their Brobdingnagian antenna in the direction of Ross 128. What the Puerto Rican astronomers found when the data were analyzed was a wide-band radio signal. July 21, 2017 |
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July 19, 2017 SETI Institute-Unistellar Partnership Promises to Revolutionize Amateur Astronomy The SETI Institute and French startup Unistellar, announced a partnership today to commercialize a new telescope that promises to deliver an unparalleled view of the cosmos to amateur astronomers, and provide the opportunity to contribute directly to cutting-edge science. |
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Why We Need a New Type of SETI Instrument The SETI Institute has developed an instrument that, at relatively low cost, could continuously survey the entire night sky for brief laser pulses. July 17, 2017 |
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Where in the Worlds has SETI Institute Been? July 2 - 8, 2017 A roundup of SETI Institute in the media. July 14, 2017 |
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Ask SETI Institute Scientist Matt Tiscareno a Question about Cassini Matt and other SETI Institute scientists have been working with the Topcoder Community... as part of this work, Topcoder is hosting an event in which anyone interested in Cassini can submit a question about Cassini’s science mission July 12, 2017 |
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Astronomy on Tap July 25, 2017 with Franck Marchis | |
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POTENTIAL NEW METEOR SHOWER FROM COMET C/2015 D4 (BORISOV) Peter Jenniskens and Esko Lyytinen report that the dust trail of 700-year comet Borisov, who just passed perihelion in 2014, will be in the Earth's path on 2017 July 29 at 00:22 UT. |
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SETI Institute is Hiring - Development Manager The SETI Institute is currently looking for an Annual Fund Manager. |
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FDL Call for Applications - Planetary Science The 2017 8-week program is still accepting qualified participants and will run June 26 - August 18, 2017. Applications will be accepted until the closing date of the 19th of May. |
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FDL Call for Applications - Data Science The 2017 8-week program is still accepting qualified participants and will run June 26 - August 18, 2017. Applications will be accepted until the closing date of the 19th of May. |
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SETI Institute Researcher at the next edition of Astronomy on Tap in San Francisco Join SETI Institute scientist Franck Marchis at Astronomy on Tap, April 25th, at 7:30 PM in San Francisco |
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Moonlet of Saturn, Pan Everyone has been talking about this new image from Cassini showing a close up of the Saturn moonlet Pan – stunning! |
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New class of metal-organic compounds found in meteorites | |
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Meteors radiating from the constellation of the Little Dipper Dec. 22, 2016 CAMS video cameras recorded an rare outburst of meteors radiating from the constellation the Small Dipper late in the night of December 22, 2016. |
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NASA’s New Horizons, IAU Set Pluto Naming Themes NASA’s New Horizons and the International Astronomical Union (IAU) have announced naming themes for surface features on Pluto and its moons. |
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