Open Space 30: Searching for Exoplanets with Dr. Jessie Christiansen

This week's guest is Dr. Jessie Christiansen, aka the Aussie Astronomer. Jessie is an exoplanet researcher working at NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech. We'll talk all things exoplanets.

http://web.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/christia/
http://nexsci.caltech.edu/

Follow her on Twitter at:
https://twitter.com/aussiastronomer

00:25 Guest introduction
01:25 Too many planets discovered?
04:09 TESS update
08:00 Why finding Earth 2.0 will be tough
09:25 New space telescopes in the works
10:25 Longest orbit exoplanet
12:49 Could Population 3 stars have planets?
15:39 Can you to detect the axial tilt of exoplanets?
19:04 Excited about JWST?
22:54 Oldest planetary system
24:17 Can we build LUVOIR?
27:28 Will TESS last for years?
28:28 Find out more about Dr. Christiansen

Jessie had to go, so the rest of the episode is me solo

29:35 Can we see the Big Bang
30:22 What's with my new avatar?
31:27 Can we use gravitational waves to detect exoplanets?
33:17 Finding planets with gravitational microlensing
35:17 Best idea for FTL
37:57 Negative mass
38:43 Temperature before the Big Bang
39:50 What should we do with ISS?
42:32 Future of inflatable modules?
45:31 Why are there different theories about the size of the Universe?
47:58 What would I do with a billion dollars?
49:32 NASA dropping SLS?
54:20 Favorite YouTube space communicators
58:38 Preview of upcoming interviews

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