Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow show featuring the Breakthrough Listen initiative.
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Week in Geek - All space all the time
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow show featuring a week's worth of rocket launches.
Week in Geek - Crowded House
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring a new estimate for the number of galaxies in the Universe - up to two trillion!
Week in Geek - 3D Earth
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show on a new a digital elevation map of Earth’s surface by a pair of German satellites.
Week in Geek - Hubble redux
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring new data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) survey of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.
Week in Geek - Map of the stars
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow show featuring the first data release of the Gaia satellite working to map a billion stars in our galaxy.
Week in Geek - Whale vs Whale
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring altruistic behavior by humpback whales intervening during Orca hunts.
Week in Geek – Science like a BOSS
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring new results from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), a project within the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
Week in Geek – Eyes in the sky
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring the International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space (ICARUS) experiment to be installed on the International Space Station.
Week in Geek – Jupiter or bust
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring NASA's Juno spacecraft's upcoming arrival at Jupiter.
Week in Geek – Earth from above
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring a three million image data dump from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite.
Week in Geek – Planet fly-by
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring the current closest approach between Earth and Mars.
Week in Geek – GIFs in spaaaace
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring a NSAS GIF showing the evolution of Tycho's supernova remnant over the past fifteen years.
Week in Geek - Hiding in the light
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring a previously unknown dwarf galaxy filled with dark matter hidding in gravitational lens SDP.81.
Week in Geek - Explosions in the Sky
My weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring evidence for nearby supernovae found on the ocean floor.
Week in Geek - Evolution of Saturn
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring new research showing Saturn's rings may have been forming while dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
Week in Geek - Martian Decade
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring the 10th anniversary of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Week in Geek - A galaxy far, far away
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring the most distant galaxy detected to date.
Week in Geek - Year in space
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring astronaut Scott Kelly's historic "year in space."
Week in Geek - Walking stick
My weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring biomedical robot research based on stick insects.