SR 145: Hunting for Exoplanets with Dr. Jessie Christiansen

This week I was delighted to chat with Dr. Jessie Christiansen
about the search for exoplanets and her work on NASA's TESS
mission. We chatted about a wide ranging list of topics,
including:


How exoplanets are named;


How far away the most distant detected exoplanet is;


The prospects for detecting exomoons;


The oddball nature of many exoplanet systems that have been
detected;


And much more.


Image Credit: MIT, NASA


Special shoutout to Launch Pad Astronomy for his SuperChat during
the stream!


Our Dom's cheese of the week was Red Witch, a Swiss cheese with a
paprika-rubbed peppery red rind.


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