Nobel Efforts

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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For two Swiss astronomers, it’s “Stockholm, here we come.” Their first-ever discovery of a planet orbiting another star has been awarded the most prestigious prize in science. Find out how their exoplanet discovery led to 4,000 more and how that changes the odds of finding life beyond Earth. Also, the Nobel committee is not alone in finding distant worlds inspirational: a musician is translating their orbital signatures into sound. Guests: Roy Gould - Biophysicist and researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Author of “Universe in Creation” Jeffrey Smith - Data scientist and a principal investigator for TESS at the SETI Institute David Ibbett - Composer and director of the Multiverse Concert Series Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:56.6	wherever you get your podcasts. The biggest astronomy story of the last two decades is that the universe is studded with planets.
1:17.0	By the time we retired the Kepler Space Telescope in 2018, we had learned that planets orbiting other stars are frankly quite common.
1:25.9	Now two astronomers who were the first to detect an extracellular planet have been awarded
1:30.2	the highest prize in physics.
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