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Astronomy · Rakiura Labs

Project Starshade

by Rakiura Labs

Blocking starlight to directly image Earth-like exoplanets and search for life. Project Starshade is a NASA concept led by MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager to detect signs of life on other planets. A giant flower-shaped screen flies in formation with a space telescope, blocking starlight so scientists can directly image Earth-like exoplanets and analyze their atmospheres. Have the skill but not the path into research? Rakiura puts you in a working lab, on a real problem picked by someone who knows what's tractable, with a group around you. Apply → https://www.rakiura.co

Latest episodes

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S1E2: The Physics of a Better Shadow

Take a perfectly round disk, hold it up to a beam of light, and look at the very center of its shadow. There's a bright spot sitting there, in the one place that should h

Jul 9
24 min

S1E1: Ten Billion to One

We've found more than six thousand planets around other stars, and almost none of them have we ever actually seen. We know them the way you'd know someone from a fingerpr

Jul 9
24 min

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