EPISODE · Aug 26, 2015
Chatting with a science star and catching dust from stars with solid smoke
from Lost in Science · host Maggie Aderin-Pocock
That stuff pictured above is aerogel, aka "solid smoke", which was used on NASA's Stardust probe to capture dust from comet Wild 2 and return it to Earth—along with a handful of precious samples of interstellar dust, giving a rare glimpse of material from outside our Solar System.In this show, Stu also talks to British scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock, host of the long-running astronomy TV show The Sky at Night, and who's also known for answering important questions like, do we really need the Moon?
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That stuff pictured above is aerogel, aka "solid smoke", which was used on NASA's Stardust probe to capture dust from comet Wild 2 and return it to Earth—along with a handful of precious samples of interstellar dust, giving a rare glimpse of material from outside our Solar System.In this show, Stu also talks to British scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock, host of the long-running astronomy TV show The Sky at Night, and who's also known for answering important questions like, do we really need the Moon?
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