Astronomy 161 - Introduction to Solar System Astronomy
Richard Pogge
49 episodes
9 months ago
Welcome to the Astronomy 161 Lecture Podcasts. This is a brief message
from me explaining the podcasts, and welcoming new and old listeners.
University. Lectures will begin on Wednesday, 2007 Sept 19, and run
through Friday, 2007 Nov 30. New lectures will appear shortly before
6pm US Eastern Time each day there is a regular class. Recorded 2007
Sep 19 in 4037 McPherson Lab on the Columbus campus of The Ohio State
University.
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Welcome to the Astronomy 161 Lecture Podcasts. This is a brief message
from me explaining the podcasts, and welcoming new and old listeners.
University. Lectures will begin on Wednesday, 2007 Sept 19, and run
through Friday, 2007 Nov 30. New lectures will appear shortly before
6pm US Eastern Time each day there is a regular class. Recorded 2007
Sep 19 in 4037 McPherson Lab on the Columbus campus of The Ohio State
University.
Astronomy 161 - Introduction to Solar System Astronomy
17 years ago
Lecture 46: Are We Alone? Life in the Universe
Are we alone in the Universe? This lecture explores the question of how
we might go about finding life on planets around other stars. Rather
than talking about speculative ideas, like the Drake Equation or SETI, I
am instead taking the approach of posing it as a problem of what to look
for among the exoplanets we have been discovering in huge numbers in the
last decade. I describe the basic requirements for life, and
how life on Earth is surprisingly tough (extremophiles). I then give a
definition of the Habitable Zone around a star, and present the
Goldilocks Problem of how a planet must be neither too hot, too cold
(for liquid water) or too big or too small to be hospitable to
life. From there I then review the problem of how to go about finding
Earth-like planets (Pale Blue Dots) around other stars, and if we do
find them, what spectroscopic signatures of life, called biomarkers, we
can look for to see if they have some form of life like we understand it
on them. Recorded on 2007 Nov 30 in 1000 McPherson Lab on the Columbus
campus of The Ohio State University. This is the final lecture for
Autumn Quarter 2007.
Astronomy 161 - Introduction to Solar System Astronomy
Welcome to the Astronomy 161 Lecture Podcasts. This is a brief message
from me explaining the podcasts, and welcoming new and old listeners.
University. Lectures will begin on Wednesday, 2007 Sept 19, and run
through Friday, 2007 Nov 30. New lectures will appear shortly before
6pm US Eastern Time each day there is a regular class. Recorded 2007
Sep 19 in 4037 McPherson Lab on the Columbus campus of The Ohio State
University.