Dr Seth Shostak, speaker at the Astrobiology Australasia Meeting 2018
Dr. Seth Shostak
Haritina Mogoșanu, Executive Director NZAN
Haritina Mogoșanu is the Executive Director of the New Zealand Astrobiology Network (NZAN) and a research scientist for the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science (BMSIS).
What is life? The Universe | Astrobiology – Documentary HD
I really enjoyed seeing this newest movie made by ‘The Universe’ in which astrobiologists, discuss how life might have originated on Earth, based on the range of conditions where life survives today and the conditions that existed on the early Earth. Then we can only look for those conditions, past or present, that may exist on other planets or moons.
a – May – zing! The Space & Science Festival is back!
The Space & Science Festival is back for 2017! Now with three amazing events across three weekends in the month of May. Saturday, May 6th – Space & Science Festival @NIGHT Evening event focused on Astronomy with the Wellington Astronomical Society, Bioluminescent Bug Art with Dr Siouxsie Wiles, Science Talks and fun with Physics. Plus […]
SOFIA in New Zealand
SOFIA, the mighty space telescope, the most wonderful machine ever invented by humankind is back in New Zealand for it’s 2015 deployment.
Flying at 13.7 km, SOFIA Looks at the Universe, our Milky Way galaxy, young stars, star-forming regions and supernova remnants in the southern Milky Way, the Magellanic Clouds, and several nearby galaxies. Surprisingly, this year it also looks at Pluto!
Abiogenesis for #AstrobiologyNZ
Richard loves to talk about space and the word astrobiology is no foreign to him. I really hope that there are many more movies like this one to come. Watching the movie’s planetary landscape sent me into a familiar but strange and beautifully compiled world. Food for thought!
Why imagination is more important than knowledge
My daughter asked me why imagination is more important than knowledge… Whilst I have, at the time, tried to explain to her the concept using the “Star Trek” doors (initially pulled by people so they look like they open by themselves), last night, after hearing that David Bowie changed back into stardust we both watched […]
Citizen scientists at work: Live long and prosper
The scientists, after looking for more than four years with Kepler to a patch in the sky located in between Cygnus and Lyra (we, stargazing nerds know where that is – see featured pic), have discovered an anomaly… a star (KIC 8462852) that exhibits a weird light pattern, or more correctly no pattern at all. Kepler’s team looks for stars that have regular drops in the intensity of the light emitted – that’s normally because a planet, or a few, orbit that star. Bingo!
Not this time!
In fact, it was not the ‘classical’ scientists but the volunteer citizen scientists who figured out something was not quite right… But what is it, really?
On Air – Haritina Mogosanu versus Jack Tame on the Mike Hosking Breakfast to talk aliens.
Water on Mars: why is important for astrobiology
Haritina Mogosanu and Jesse Mulligan from Radio New Zealand are discussing the importance of the discovery of liquid water on Mars. http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/201772535/mars-water-haritina-mogosanu https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-confirms-evidence-that-liquid-water-flows-on-today-s-mars
Finding life on Mars with SOLID
The Icebreaker Life mission – which will search for life on Mars – is due for review this September, 2015. If successful, Icebreaker Life might fly to Mars in 2021. I hope that Icebreaker will make it to Mars and make grand discoveries.