Description
Welcome to the Astronomy 161 Lecture Podcasts. This is a brief message
from me explaining the podcasts, and welcoming new and old listeners.
University. Lectures will begin on Wednesday, 2007 Sept 19, and run
through Friday, 2007 Nov 30. New lectures will appear shortly before
6pm US Eastern Time each day there is a regular class. Recorded 2007
Sep 19 in 4037 McPherson Lab on the Columbus campus of The Ohio State
University.
A new podcast, Astronomy 141, Life in the Universe, is available
for those interested in continuing an exploration of topics in
modern astronomy.
Published 12/06/09
Are we alone in the Universe? This lecture explores the question of how
we might go about finding life on planets around other stars. Rather
than talking about speculative ideas, like the Drake Equation or SETI, I
am instead taking the approach of posing it as a problem of what to look
for...
Published 11/30/07