Geoff Marcy's guest appearances

Geoff Marcy

Smart People Podcast

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss

Wired Storyboard Audio Podcast

Neil deGrasse Tyson

John Mather

Mary Roach

Alan Stern

Mike Lewis

Jo Boaler

Rich Karlgaard

David Epstein

Andrew Sinkov

Gail Collins

Chris Bailey

Nir Eyal

Joe Navarro

Michael Bungay Stanier

David Burkus

OwlTail

Geoff Marcy has been pioneer in the search for extra-solar system planets since the first discovery of an exoplanet surround a main sequence star was made in 1995 by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz.  Within months, Marcy and his team had not only confirmed this result but detected numerous other exoplanets.  Seventy of the first one hundred exoplanets were discovered by Marcy’s team, including the firs exoplanet located as far away from its star as Jupiter is to the Sun, and the first exoplanet discovered by observing its transit of its host star, a technique that will be used by JWST to explore the atmosphere of exoplanets to search for bio signatures.  Marcy was then a Co-PI on the Kepler Mission, which discovered over 4000 exoplanets.  For their pioneering work in the creation of this new field Marcy and Mayor shared the international Shaw Prize in 2005.  More recently Marcy has turned his attention to methods to probe for intelligent life in the Universe, first as a PI on the Breakthrough Listen Project, and more recently exploring novel methods, including optical techniques to probe for possible signals of intelligence elsewhere. We discussed all of these exciting topics, as well as Geoff’s own origins as a scientist in a thoughtful and fascinating discussion.  He has become well known not just as a world renown scientist, but as one of the best communicators of astronomy there is.   Our discussion will give a whole new dimension to your thinking about that age-old question:  Are we alone in the Universe?As always, an ad-free video version of this podcast is also available to paid Critical Mass subscribers . Your subscriptions support the non-profit Origins Project Foundation, which produces the podcast. The audio version is available free on the Critical Mass site and on all podcast sites, and the video version will also be available on the Origins Project YouTube channel as well. Get full access to Critical Mass at lawrencekrauss.substack.com/subscribe

Geoff Marcy has been pioneer in the search for extra-solar system planets since the first discovery of an exoplanet surround a main sequence star was made in 1995 by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz. Within months, Marcy and his team had not only confirmed this result but detected numerous other exoplanets. Seventy of the first one hundred exoplanets were discovered by Marcy’s team, including the firs exoplanet located as far away from its star as Jupiter is to the Sun, and the first exoplanet discovered by observing its transit of its host star, a technique that will be used by JWST to explore the atmosphere of exoplanets to search for bio signatures. Marcy was then a Co-PI on the Kepler Mission, which discovered over 4000 exoplanets. For their pioneering work in the creation of this new field Marcy and Mayor shared the international Shaw Prize in 2005. More recently Marcy has turned his attention to methods to probe for intelligent life in the Universe, first as a PI on the Breakthrough Listen Project, and more recently exploring novel methods, including optical techniques to probe for possible signals of intelligence elsewhere. We discussed all of these exciting topics, as well as Geoff’s own origins as a scientist in a thoughtful and fascinating discussion. He has become well known not just as a world renown scientist, but as one of the best communicators of astronomy there is. Our discussion will give a whole new dimension to your thinking about that age-old question: Are we alone in the Universe?As always, an ad-free video version of this podcast is also available to paid Critical Mass subscribers . Your subscriptions support the non-profit Origins Project Foundation, which produces the podcast. The audio version is available free on the Critical Mass site and on all podcast sites, and the video version will also be available on the Origins Project YouTube channel as well. Get full access to Critical Mass at <a href="https://lawrencekrauss.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lawrencekrauss.substack.com/subscribe</a>

Geoff Marcy: The Search for Exoplanets and Life Elsewhere in the Universe

Take a look into the sky tonight and try to imagine how many planets are out there. As of February 2011, there are 1,235 unconfirmed planetary candidates out there. It is widely estimated that there are billions of planets in our galaxy alone. Did you know that one man is responsible for discovering 70 of...       Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Take a look into the sky tonight and try to imagine how many planets are out there. As of February 2011, there are 1,235 unconfirmed planetary candidates out there. It is widely estimated that there are billions of planets in our galaxy alone. Did you know that one man is responsible for discovering 70 of... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Dr. Geoff Marcy

We celebrate our 5th anniversary by learning about discovery of a five-planet star system, the largest found so far.  Q&amp;A on Jupiter's red spot.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We celebrate our 5th anniversary by learning about discovery of a five-planet star system, the largest found so far. Q&amp;A on Jupiter's red spot.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="http://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Planetary Radio 5th Anniversary Show:  Astronomer Geoff Marcy on Discovery of Fifth Planet in Star System