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Exocast: The Exoplanet Podcast

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Exocast is the premiere exoplanet podcast hosted by Hannah Wakeford, Andrew Rushby, and Hugh Osborn. Discussions, interviews, news and exclusives find more at exocast.org

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Exocast-78 b: Finding the most distant exoplanets with Dr Eamonn Kerins This month the gang sit in with Dr Eamonn Kerins, expert in gravitational microlensing from the University of Manchester. He tells us how astronomers can find extremely distant exoplanets through tโ€ฆ

Great chat with the @exocast.bsky.social team about finding exoplanets using gravitational lensing, the upcoming Roman mission, and risking career suicide by talking about my work on stage in front of 2000 people whilst wearing a skin tight alien costume. ๐Ÿงช๐Ÿ”ญ๐Ÿ‘ฝ
www.exocast.org/exocast-78b/

19.02.2025 15:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Exocast-77b: Exoplanet Instrumentation with Dr Ben Pope For this episode the Exocast team are joined by Dr Benjamin (Ben) Pope from the University of Queensland, Brisbane. Ben has worked on everything from transit light curve modelling, to direct imaginโ€ฆ

In addition, as always we ask our guest to adopt an exoplanet into our Exocast family with Ben choosing K2-110b which holds a special significance for him and one of our Exocast hosts - listen to find out more!
www.exocast.org/exocast-77b/

16.01.2025 08:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐ŸšจNew Episode out now featuring the ever enthusiastic Dr Ben Pope from University of Queensland in Australia. Ben talks with the team about all things exoplanets๐Ÿช, starsโœจ, and instrumentation๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ, including how to track solar flares using tree rings! ๐ŸŒฒhttps://www.exocast.org/exocast-77b/

16.01.2025 08:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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exocast is the podcast exploring distant, extrasolar worlds Hey ๐Ÿ‘‹ thanks for coming to support the show, all of the money goes towards maintaining our webpages and providing as much exoplanet content as we can. We really appreciate the support ๐Ÿช๐Ÿ™

A massive thank you ๐Ÿ™ to everyone who has supported the show to this milestone we genuinely could not have done it without you - nor would we want to! ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ๐Ÿ”ญ๐Ÿงช

If you want to rep Exocast check out our merch at exocast.threadless.com or you can support the show by buying a coffee below โ˜•โ˜•โ˜•

06.12.2023 10:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Exocast-71c: Exoplanet News & the 100th episode In this most excellent 100th episode of Exocast from the team we bring you the latest in exoplanet research and news. Hannah and Andrew cover news from the TRAPPIST system. Hannah will dive into thโ€ฆ

Exocast celebrates its 100th episode with the latest #exoplanet news! ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿ“ฐ๐Ÿ”ญ๐Ÿงช๐ŸŽ™๏ธ
Hugh, Hannah, & Andrew chat all things TRAPPIST from #JWST observations to hunt for biosignatures, & explore an astronomical mystery of dust & planetary collisions

You can find all 100 shows wherever you get your podcasts

06.12.2023 10:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Exocast-70c: Exoplanet news Hugh, Hannah, & Andrew discuss a handful of interesting recent exoplanet papers from the past few months. We chat about the news coverage of K2-18b and the claims of biomarkers in that atmospheโ€ฆ

New news episode of Exocast out now!
We discuss the results of controversial K2-18b & the impact of poor communication exciting #exoplanet science (and @stellarplanet.bsky.social tries to keep it together), we discover all about a planet around an evolved star, & explore evolution like never before

15.10.2023 11:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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exocast The exoplanet podcast

What do you want the exocast team to talk about on the show?

Let us know here, on the bird site @exo_cast, on mastodon or on our website exocast.org
#podcast #science #exoplanet ๐Ÿ”ญ๐Ÿงช๐ŸŽ™๏ธ

02.10.2023 20:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Exocast-70b: Dr. Max Gรผnther talks transits, CHEOPS & chemistry in zero-g This month the exocast team chat to exoplanetary astronomer Dr Maximillian Guenther. We talk about finding transiting exoplanets with TESS & NGTS, open-source transit modelling, flares from M-dโ€ฆ

In this month's episode we chat with #exoplanet astronomer
@M_N_Guenther! We cover transit detection with NGTS, & TESS, the CHEOPS mission, UV exposure, flares on M-Dwarf planets, chemical experiments in zero-g, & much more!
Out now wherever you get your podcasts! ๐Ÿ”ญ๐Ÿงช๐ŸŽ™๏ธ

02.10.2023 17:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Exocast-69b: Surviving Scientific Conferences In this episode Andrew, Hannah, and Hugh discuss the art and science of organising, and attending, scientific conferences, with a particular focus on the recent Exoclimes VI meeting held in Exeter,โ€ฆ

New episode alert! The Exocast gang discuss their experiences of attending & organising conferences, focusing on the recent #ExoclimesVI meeting run by our own @StellarPlanet et al., & consider the changing role & format of these meetings in academia. https://exocast.org/exocast-69b/

21.08.2023 11:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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