A newly discovered world circling two stars this week on planetary radio. Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

Today, Lawrence Doyle will take us to I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

Today, Lawrence Doyle will take us to Kepler 16b, the first planet found in a binary

star system.

We'll also talk to Lawrence about his intriguing plan to analyze communication

among other species on our own planet. All our regulars are ready for their

close-ups including Emily Lachto-Wala Emily, we both had adventures last week.

They weren't quite synchronous though.

Just at the moment that you were watching a launch,

I think I was driving north out of Roswell, New Mexico.

No alien sightings, by the way.

Oh, they just erased your memory of the alien sightings.

Oh, gosh, I should have known.

Well, you have great memories of your experience up at Vandenberg.

I do.

This is only the second launch that I've ever seen in the previous one, which was Spirit on a Delta

2, was in daylight, and this one was at night.

And I have to say, I was unprepared for the spectacle.

It was in the wee hours of the morning, the launch happened right around 3 a.m.

And we could see all the way to the launch pad about 3 or 4 kilometers away, which I understand is pretty rare in that part of the country.

I understand it's usually very foggy there, but we had a gorgeous view.

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