Adam Bugasser's guest appearances

Adam Bugasser

Space

Yashar Hezaveh

Natalie Batalha

Seth Shostak

Todd Henry

Mike Brown

Jill Tarter

Peter Smith

Douglas Vakoch

Jeff Moore

Chris Impey

Paul Davies

Anthony Aguirre

Joshua Bloom

Carolyn Porco

Amy Mainzer

OwlTail

For thousands of years, humans have distinguished two types of bright celestial lights: the firmament of the fixed stars and the clockwork machinations of the wandering planets. With the discovery of a vast population of brown dwarfs— low-mass objects exhibiting both stellar and planetary characteristics— these long-held distinctions have been upended, revealing a continuum of gas giants spanning Jupiter to the Sun. Professor Burgasser will describe the history of brown dwarf science, from their prediction as dark matter candidates in the 1960s to their discovery as the Sun's nearest neighbors in the 1990s. He'll then reveal their many fascinating properties, from interiors of metallic hydrogen to storms of molten iron, and report on the recent discovery of ""room-temperature"" stars with the WISE infrared satellite mission.California Academy of Sciences, Benjamin Dean Lecture Series held in the Morrison Planetarium    recorded: 8/12/2012

For thousands of years, humans have distinguished two types of bright celestial lights: the firmament of the fixed stars and the clockwork machinations of the wandering planets. With the discovery of a vast population of brown dwarfs— low-mass objects exhibiting both stellar and planetary characteristics— these long-held distinctions have been upended, revealing a continuum of gas giants spanning Jupiter to the Sun. Professor Burgasser will describe the history of brown dwarf science, from their prediction as dark matter candidates in the 1960s to their discovery as the Sun's nearest neighbors in the 1990s. He'll then reveal their many fascinating properties, from interiors of metallic hydrogen to storms of molten iron, and report on the recent discovery of ""room-temperature"" stars with the WISE infrared satellite mission.<br><br>California Academy of Sciences, Benjamin Dean Lecture Series held in the Morrison Planetarium    recorded: 8/12/2012

Adam Bugasser, UC San Diego—8/12/2012