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The Unistellar citizen science program, a collaboration between the SETI Institute and Unistellar, had an impressive 2024 filled with groundbreaking discoveries. In a recent Q&A session, Franck and Lauren shared the program’s achievements and previewed what’s in store for 2025. 🧪

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Once again, we highlight the work of #scientists who are studying #notjustaliens in our quest to understand our universe, including the Moon! Dr. Megan Seritan studied lunar paleomagnetism at UC Santa Cruz, focusing on lunar swirls. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

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#ICYMI: Looking for Lunar Anomalies Using Automated Methods On this week's #SETILive, Franck Marchis chatted with authors Adam Lesnikowski and Daniel Angerhausen about this revolutionary method and its implications for future discoveries. https://buff.ly/3X8CK6o 🧪 🔭

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Franck asked: When looking for lunar anomalies, what’s the wildest thing you wish #AI would find on the #Moon? 🧪 Watch the full SETI Live: https://buff.ly/3X8CK6o

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We are preparing to announce the Drake Award 2025 recipient, recognizing their outstanding contributions to SETI and/or astrobiology through scientific research and space exploration. Early Bird ticket sales open on March 17th at 9:00 AM Pacific Time. Stay tuned! 🧪 🔭

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#PPOD: Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) captured this detailed image of SN 1987A (Supernova 1987A). At the center, material ejected from the supernova forms a keyhole shape. Just to its left and right are faint crescents newly discovered by Webb. 🧪 🔭

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PODCAST: https://buff.ly/4177F4k The Year that Made Me: Nathalie Cabrol, 1994 Nathalie Cabrol has had a stellar career as an astrobiologist combining her passion for nature with her obsession with space. She has explored the most extreme environments on earth... 🧪 👩‍🔬 🔊 #podcast

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The search for non-human intelligence is one that explores worlds elsewhere in the cosmos. But what if we’re inventing it here on Earth? It’s the future of AI as we go Into the DeepSeek on @bipisci.bsky.social 🧪 🔊 #podcast Listen here: https://buff.ly/4gJban6

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#PPOD: One of the early findings from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission was the discovery of volcanic features known as Irregular Mare Patches (IMPs) scattered across the nearside. These landforms are generally considered volcanic. However, their ages are hotly debated. 🧪 🔭

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Next #SETILive: Looking for Lunar Anomalies Using Automated Methods TODAY, 20 February, 9 AM PST Join Franck Marchis as he chats with authors Adam Lesnikowski and Daniel Angerhausen about this revolutionary method and its implications for future discoveries. 🧪 🔭 WATCH LIVE:

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Having a blast recording these shows with @planetarypan.bsky.social , diving into Star Trek, aliens, and the future of civilization. 🎬👽✨ We’d love more viewers, but hey—Rome wasn’t built in a year! If you want us to keep this going, like, share & drop a comment! 🚀📡 #SciFi #Future

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Spoiler alert! @planetarypan.bsky.social and @allplanets.bsky.social are back to over-analyze the science of #StarTrek! Beth and Franck chat about DNA, non-carbon-based lifeforms, and, once again, interspecies communication.

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IN-PERSON: https://buff.ly/41kXYR2 Copernicus 4.0: How Our Views of Earth's Importance and the Search for Life Are Changing with Dr. Simon Steel on Wednesday, Mar 05, 2025, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM in the Smithwick Theater at Foothill College, in Los Altos (see directions at link above). 🧪 🔭 #BayArea

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#PPOD: This image shows the light from three planets orbiting a star 120 light-years away. The planets' star, called HR8799, is located at the spot marked with an "X." This picture was taken using a small, 1.5-meter portion of the Palomar Observatory's Hale Telescope, north of San Diego. 🧪 🔭

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The SETI Institute's research is #notjustaliens. Meet Dr. Uma Gorti, who joined the SETI Institute's Carl Sagan Center in 2008 as a Principal Investigator and is mainly interested in star and planet formation. 🧪 👩‍🔬

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In our latest #SETILive podcast, @allplanets.bsky.social and Lauren Sgro examine last year's Unistellar #citizenscience results, and Franck answers a viewer's question about the impetus for a citizen science network of telescopes. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 https://buff.ly/40QYwNc

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#PPOD: On the west coast of Lanzarote, Canary Islands, an almost otherworldly landscape exists. Here, the crater of an extinct volcano submerges into the Atlantic Ocean, forming a lagoon known as the Charco de los Clicos (Green Lagoon). 🧪 👩‍🔬 Credit: Miriela Rodríguez via Wikimedia Commons

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PODCAST: https://buff.ly/3CVvrrW In the introductory episode of The Climate Chronicles, @dagomardegroot.bsky.social‬ uses one of the great adventure stories of the seventeenth century – the tale of fourteen men deserted on two Arctic islands – to introduce the history of climate change. 🧪 🔈

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On @bipisci.bsky.social is the splashy arrival of the AI model DeepSeek just hype, or will it significantly impact how AI unfolds? What consequences might open-source AI have on the future of humanity? It’s Skeptic Check: Into the DeepSeek. 🧪 🔈 #podcast Listen here: https://buff.ly/4gJban6

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#PPOD: This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows white material believed to be dusty water ice lining the edges of Martian gullies in a region named Terra Sirenum. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona 🧪 🔭

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We highlight the work of scientists studying #notjustaliens in our quest to understand life in the universe. Dr. Rosalba Bonaccorsi has expanded her work by developing analytical protocols for real-time in-situ life detection in planetary-like materials and extreme environments worldwide. 🧪 👩‍🔬

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#ICYMI - SETI Live: Earth Detecting Earth Radio signals are potentially visible from up to 12,000 light-years away. Simon Steel chatted with lead author Sofia Sheikh about her research's findings and their implications for the search for technosignatures. 🧪 🔭 🛰️ Watch here:

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SETI Institute in the News: January Roundup Earth's moon may have had rings. Adapting moss to space. SETI Forward award winners. Quadrantid meteor shower. 🧪 🔭 🛰️ Read all the stories: https://buff.ly/4huhb8t

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A sample from asteroid Bennu reveals the building blocks of life were present in the early solar system. What this tells us about how life might have started on Earth and how it might have begun elsewhere in the Solar System. 🧪 🔭 Listen to @bipisci.bsky.social: https://buff.ly/3QizS2N

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#PPOD: The Heart and Soul nebulae are seen in this infrared mosaic from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The image covers an area of the sky over ten times as wide as the full moon and eight times as high in the constellation Cassiopeia. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA 🧪 🔭

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Frameline Distribution has acquired North American distribution rights to Doppelgängers³, a film directed by Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian that’s described as a “freewheeling filmic essay-meets-documentary, which takes questions of gender, history... 🧪 👩‍🔬

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Next #SETILive: Earth Detecting Earth TODAY, Feb 13, 2:30 PM PST Join Simon Steel to chat with lead author Sofia Sheikh about her latest research findings and their implications for the search for technosignatures. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 WATCH LIVE: https://buff.ly/3QeLBQd

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#PPOD: NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity acquired this image, taken from the rim of a crater named “Rustic Canyon,” using its Left Navigation Camera on sol 4429 — or Martian day 4,429 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission — on Jan. 20, 2025, at 23:05:33 UTC. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪 🔭

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Not only do we have a new episode of Sci-Fi Reality Check available, but we also have an account here on Bluesky!

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