Vanishing Vulcans🌋💨👻
Watch Episode 18 of Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers!
Have you ever wondered what it's like to discover a brand-new world? In the last few decades, we've found over 5,000 planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets—and there are likely millions, if not billions, more! Join Dr. Jessie Christiansen, Chief Scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Archive at Caltech IPAC as she interviews the brilliant minds behind the discovery of new planets in "Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers." Hear about their eureka moments and their favorite fictional planets, which Jessie will match to their closest real-world counterparts in the NASA Exoplanet Archive.
Come explore the cosmos, one exoplanet at a time!
About this episode:
Vanishing Vulcans🌋💨👻
Spock's home planet is probably one of the most famous exoplanets, thanks to Star Trek lore. Turns out, Vulcan has a storied past in our own solar system's history, which Dr. Ben Montet shares in the second half of his chat with Jessie. But is Vulcan a real planet that actually orbits the real star called 40 Eridani A? Tune in and find out!
Episode link: https://youtu.be/BKUHQqKG1L0
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