Tag: Privileged Planet
Privileged Planet Update: Jupiter Takes One for the Home Team
Leading physicist George Wetherill argued that we owe our planetary survival to the gas giant.
San Diego: Are You Ready for the (Free!) Science and Faith Conference on Saturday?
Here is a brief sneak peek into a few of the scheduled presentations.
More Views of a Privileged Planet
This is the second video I’ve recommended to you in as many weeks that offers an awesome and surprisingly poignant view of the turning Earth as seen from space.
Privileged Planet: Our Thin, Exquisitely Delicate Atmosphere
It takes a time-lapse moving picture like this (courtesy of NASA and editor Alex Rivest) to get a really clear sense of the film of gases that surrounds our planet.
Stop Us If You’ve Heard This One Before
So this astronomer walks into a bar and says, “It’s the holy grail of exoplanet research…”