On Episode 126 of This Week In House, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss with Rosalba Perna about errant planets.
As if election season wasn’t scary sufficient, now we’ve got rogue planets to fret about! Out within the huge darkness between star methods, these worlds wander by way of the interstellar void, typically in pairs, and after they encounter a photo voltaic system, havoc may end up. Add to the truth that they’re laborious to see, and you’ve got a recipe for fear.
Thankfully, we’ve got astrophysicists like Dr. Rosalba Perna on the job, studying extra about these unusual, errant planets every day! Add to that the ever-increasing stash of information we’re getting from the James Webb House Telescope, and we will all sleep a bit higher at evening. Be part of us for a captivating hour with Dr. Perna as we find out about rogue planets!
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This Week in House covers the brand new house age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into a captivating matter. What’s taking place with the brand new race to the moon and different planets? When will SpaceX actually ship folks to Mars?
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Rod Pyle is an writer, journalist, tv producer and Editor-in-Chief of Advert Astra journal. He has written 18 books on house historical past, exploration, and growth, together with House 2.0, Innovation the NASA Manner, Interplanetary Robots, Blueprint for a Battlestar, Superb Tales of the House Age, First On the Moon, and Vacation spot Mars
In a earlier life, Rod produced quite a few documentaries and quick movies for The Historical past Channel, Discovery Communications, and Disney. He additionally labored in visible results on Star Trek: Deep House 9 and the Battlestar Galactica reboot, in addition to varied sci-fi TV pilots. His most up-to-date TV credit score was with the NatGeo documentary on Tom Wolfe’s iconic e book The Proper Stuff.
Accountable for House.com’s editorial imaginative and prescient, Tariq Malik has been the Editor-in-Chief of House.com since 2019 and has coated house information and science for 18 years. He joined the House.com staff in 2001, first as an intern and shortly after as a full-time spaceflight reporter masking human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the evening sky. He turned House.com’s managing editor in 2009. As on-air expertise has offered house tales on CNN, Fox Information, NPR and others.
Tariq is an Eagle Scout (sure, he earned the House Exploration benefit badge), a House Camp veteran (4 occasions as a child, as soon as as an grownup), and has taken the final word “vomit comet” trip whereas reporting on zero-gravity fires. Earlier than becoming a member of House.com, he served as a employees reporter for The Los Angeles Occasions masking metropolis and schooling beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.
