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Remember when astrophysicists thought they'd found signs of life on Venus? A different team re-crunched the numbers, and their results raised some questions about that claim. Also, a bunch of exoplanets are doing a really precise dance around a not-so-distant star!
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nytimes.com/2020/09/14/science/venus-life-clouds.html
arxiv.org/pdf/2101.09837.pdf
eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-01/uow-ppo012721.php
imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/toolbox/spectra1.html
arxiv.org/pdf/2101.09260.pdf
eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-01/e-pss012221.php
planetary.org/articles/timing-variations
Image Sources:
astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/venus-role-in-understanding-habitable-worlds
solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/575/venus-cloud-patterns
eso.org/public/videos/eso2102b
https://sci.esa.int/web/cheops/-/artist-s-impression-of-the-toi-178-planetary-system
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirchhof_laws.svg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Galilean_moon_Laplace_resonance_animation_2.gif
eso.org/public/images/eso2102b
eso.org/public/usa/videos/eso2102c
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venus_atmosphere_cs.png
solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/476/2012-venus-transit/?category=planets_venus
Remember when astrophysicists thought they'd found signs of life on Venus? A different team re-crunched the numbers, and their results raised some questions about that claim. Also, a bunch of exoplanets are doing a really precise dance around a not-so-distant star!
Hosted by: Caitlin Hofmeister
SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at scishowtangents.org
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Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: patreon.com/scishow
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Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever:
Silas Emrys, Charles Copley, Jb Taishoff, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, LehelKovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer
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Sources
nytimes.com/2020/09/14/science/venus-life-clouds.html
arxiv.org/pdf/2101.09837.pdf
eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-01/uow-ppo012721.php
imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/toolbox/spectra1.html
arxiv.org/pdf/2101.09260.pdf
eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-01/e-pss012221.php
planetary.org/articles/timing-variations
Image Sources:
astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/venus-role-in-understanding-habitable-worlds
solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/575/venus-cloud-patterns
eso.org/public/videos/eso2102b
https://sci.esa.int/web/cheops/-/artist-s-impression-of-the-toi-178-planetary-system
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirchhof_laws.svg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Galilean_moon_Laplace_resonance_animation_2.gif
eso.org/public/images/eso2102b
eso.org/public/usa/videos/eso2102c
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venus_atmosphere_cs.png
solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/476/2012-venus-transit/?category=planets_venus
