Daniel Apai's Blog on Exoplanet Exploration and Astrobiology
Exciting two days at Biosphere 2! We just wrapped up our first in-person the Pandora Science Team meeting. Pandora is a NASA-funded space telescope, part of the new NASA Pioneers space telescope program. This is a very exciting program: NASA challenged teams to build space telescopes that do cutting edge science – but to do this…
During an exciting visit to Columbia University’s Department of Astronomy, I have the opportunity to deliver the 2022 Crotts Radical Hypothesis Lecture. The lectures honor the memory of Arlin Crotts, a brilliant and visionary astrophysicists, whose work and discoveries profoundly influenced many fields of modern astrophysics: From dark matter haloes through light echoes to the…