Dark Energy Attracts? Astrophysicists Jason Rhodes and Alina Kiessling

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Technology, Science

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🗓️ 9 August 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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JPL astrophysicists Alina Kiessling and Jason Rhodes were brought together by their fascination over the mystery of dark energy. They talk with Planetary Radio about their research and the many missions they are contributing to, including WFIRST, a unique new space telescope.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Dark Energy attracts? It does this week on planetary radio.
0:09.0	Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan of the Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar
0:15.4	system and beyond.
0:17.3	Mysterious dark energy makes everything in the universe fly apart from everything else at ever increasing speed and
0:24.0	yet it brought together our two guests
0:27.1	astrophysicist Jason Rhodes and a Lena Kiesling. The married couple will
0:31.8	also talk about future space telescopes, finding life on exoplanets
0:36.1	and airships.
0:37.1	Airships?
0:38.1	Yeah, really.
0:40.1	Are you ready for the Great American Eclipse?
0:42.3	We've asked you before.
0:43.6	Bill Nye has some do's and don'ts,
0:46.1	and Bruce Betts has a sublime random space fact lined up.
0:50.0	Casey Dreyer is the Planetary Society's Director of Space Policy.
0:54.4	Casey, wanted to bring you back to talk about developments in the budget.
0:58.8	Congress making decisions about what NASA will have to work on for a federal year 2018.
1:05.0	It is one of the topics we cover in the brand new Space Policy Edition,
1:09.0	Number 15, that is now available for everybody,
1:12.0	our Space Policy Edition, for August of 2017.
1:16.1	How does the budget look, at least with what the Senate has just decided?
1:20.6	Well the Senate proposed kind of a midpoint between the House's really good number of
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