TOMORROW #SETILive : buff.ly/3sHvD55
Monday, Oct 31, 2022 2:30 PM PDT

Welcome to outer space. Life is harsh out here. Join SethShostak and Beth Johnson 🔭☄️🌋🏳️‍🌈 for a spirited and humorous discussion on the horrors of death on other worlds. WATCH LIVE: buff.ly/3SOtEqw

Spooky Space Picture of the Day: IC 63 (the Ghost Nebula) is about 550 light-years from Earth. The nebula is classified as both a reflection nebula and as an emission nebula. Both effects are caused by the gigantic star Gamma Cassiopeiae. Credit: ESA Hubble Space Telescope NASA

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Yesterday, the Bay Area Exoplanet Meeting was held at our offices, and we were honored to host this year's event. Topics of the meeting included demographics of exoplanets, NASA Hallo-Webb Telescope 🕸🕷🎃 early science release, a path to exoplanet direct imaging, and more!

ICYMI: #writingprompt 2/5 is now up!

Spooky Space Picture of the Day: The little-known nebula IRAS 05437+2502 billows out among the bright stars and dark dust clouds that surround it in this striking image from Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA Hubble, R. Sahai and NASA

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American Institute of Physics is organizing a competition for undergraduate students in the physical sciences to design a spaceborne starshade. The device will orbit Earth, blocking the light from a star and allowing ground-based telescopes to observe extra-solar planets.

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Monday, Oct 31, 2022 2:30 PM PDT

Welcome to outer space. Life is harsh out here. Join SethShostak and Beth Johnson 🔭☄️🌋🏳️‍🌈 for a spirited and humorous discussion on the horrors of death on other worlds. WATCH LIVE: buff.ly/3gRtOjC

#PPOD : Lucy Mission captured this (cropped) image of the Earth on Oct 15, 2022, as a part of an instrument calibration sequence at a distance of 620,000 km. Lucy is the first mission to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. Credit: NASA NASAGoddard Southwest Research Institute

All right, Twitter. Let's have some spooky #sciencefiction fun. How about some mini fiction challenges now through Halloween? You can write #Twitterature (280 characters) or a thread or some #minifiction (less than 100 words). Who's in?

First prompt goes up in ~30 minutes!

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A new paper published in PNASNews reports from some of the world’s oldest rocks in Western Australia evidence that the Earth’s crust was pushing and pulling in a manner similar to modern plate tectonics at least 3.25 billion years ago.

SETI Live: Has Mars Ever Been a Good Place for Life? twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

TODAY! #SETILive buff.ly/3sA7fCs
Oct 27 2:30 PM PDT

Join Franck Marchis and Kaveh Pahlevan as they explore the implication that early Mars was a warm version of modern Titan and as promising a site for the origin of life as early Earth. WATCH LIVE: buff.ly/3Ni5Hqs

Enjoying the brand new Euler corner at the The SETI Institute funded by Eric Schulz with Director of Communication Rebecca McDonald. Leonhard Euler was a 18th century swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer. He popularized PI and gave me nightmare when I was a student.

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Europa’s Eruptions Likely from Shallow Surface Lakes

Computer models find that eruptions seen on Europa are likely coming from shallow lakes embedded in the ice rather than the subsurface ocean as expected.

Advanced alien intelligence might very well be synthetic, and not the biological extraterrestrials of movies and TV. Have we already made A.I. that’s sentient? This week’s episode of Big Picture Science is “Skeptic Check: A.I. Comes Alive.” Listen here: buff.ly/3slQf2L

#PPOD : This image from the ESA Rosetta Mission's navigation camera (NAVCAM) of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, from less than 10 km above the surface. The image has been processed to bring out subtly illuminated features on the otherwise very dark surface. Credit: ESA

Spooky Space Picture of the Day: This HiRISE: Beautiful Mars (NASA) image of #Mars reveals araneiforms or “spiders” -- features with radial troughs from which fans emanate in the springtime. There are thousands of spiders in the full image. Creepy! Credit: NASA NASAJPL Caltech @UArizona