Where in the Worlds has SETI Institute Been? - Jan 01, 2017 - Jan 07, 2018
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Where in the Worlds has SETI Institute Been? - Jan 01, 2017 - Jan 07, 2018
A roundup of SETI Institute in the media.
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Possible Lava Tube Skylights Discovered Near the North Pole of the Moon
The SETI Institute and the Mars Institute announced today the discovery of small pits in a large crater near the North Pole of the Moon, which may be entrances to an underground network of lava tubes.
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Unistellar to receive CES 2018 Innovation Award for smart, powerful, crowd-funded consumer telescope
After a busy and productive 2017, Unistellar is back at CES in Las Vegas to receive the 2018 Innovation Award for its eVscope, a compact, connected, and incredibly powerful consumer telescope that raised an astonishing $2.2 million in a November 2017 Kickstarter campaign.
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Big Picture Science Radio show - Are Animals Really That Smart?
Find out how housecats manage to wrap their owners around their paws, and primatologist Frans de Waal on the surprising smarts of chimps, elephants, and bats. And why the discovery of a fossilized dinosaur brain suggests that these lumbering lizards were hardly dimwits.
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Where in the Worlds has SETI Institute Been? - Dec 11, 2017 - Jan 1, 2018
A roundup of SETI Institute in the media.
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Submit Ideas for the 2018 Frontier Development Lab Summer Workshop
On behalf of the NASA Frontier Development Lab, and our corporate partners,1 we are writing to solicit your input and ideas for research questions for the 2018 FDL Summer Workshop.
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With great ballyhoo, the government has admitted to instigating a secret study of UFOs over the course of about five years, ending in 2012. While this effort did not find any conclusive proof of visitation, it has produced much excitement among those who think that extraterrestrials are in our skies.
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Life on Mars: If Past Life on Mars Existed, it Co-evolved with the Martian Environment
A new article in Astrobiology, “The Coevolution of Life and Environment on Mars: An Ecosystem Perspective on the Robotic Exploration of Biosignatures,” is available online today and in the January, 2018 issue.
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Is this mysterious space rock actually an alien spaceship?
It’s in the news because people want to know if it’s a rock or a rocket. The “it” in question is a weirdly oblong asteroid that goes by the barely pronounceable moniker Oumuamua.
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Carl Sagan Center Activity Report November 2017
Carl Sagan Center Activity Report for November 2017
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Life on Mars: If Past Life on Mars Existed, it Co-evolved with the Martian Environment A new article in Astrobiology, “The Coevolution of Life and Environment on Mars: An Ecosystem Perspective on the Robotic Exploration of Biosignatures,” is available online today and in the January, 2018 issue. December 18, 2017 |
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Where in the Worlds has SETI Institute Been? - Dec 4 – Dec 10, 2017 A roundup of SETI Institute in the media. December 15, 2017 |
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Carl Sagan Center Activity Report November 2017 Carl Sagan Center Activity Report for November 2017 December 15, 2017 |
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Geminids Meteor shower Dec. 12 -15, 2017 Be on the lookout for the Geminids meteor shower, it should be visible from December 12-15, peaking on the 13th. December 12, 2017 |
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Applications to the Research Experience for Undergraduates at the SETI Institute are Now Open! The application process for the SETI Institute’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program is now open, and the application deadline is February 1, 2018. December 11, 2017 |
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Where in the Worlds has SETI Institute Been? - Nov 27 – Dec 3, 2017 A roundup of SETI Institute in the media. December 08, 2017 |
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Geminids Meteor shower Dec. 12 -15, 2017 The Geminids should be visible from December 12-15, peaking on the 13th. Additionally, on December 16, the asteroid Phaeton will pass so close to Earth that it will be possible to see it moving between stars. |
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CAMS detected unexpected meteor activity from alpha Monocerotids in Nov 2017 | |
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Seeing Pluto With Your Own Eyes From Your Backyard With Unistellar's eVscope One of the biggest challenges in popular astronomy is finding specific objects in the night sky. Most nebulae, galaxies, and asteroids are invisible to the naked eye, and locating them in the immense vastness of space has frustrated people for centuries. |
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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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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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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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