{"id":14101,"date":"2017-03-24T17:34:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T21:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14101"},"modified":"2017-03-24T17:34:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T21:34:39","slug":"video-nasas-search-for-habitable-planets-and-life-beyond-the-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14101","title":{"rendered":"Video: &#8220;NASA&#8217;s search for habitable planets and life beyond the solar system&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/seti.org\" target=\"_blank\">SETI Institute<\/a> talk by <em>Dr. Gary H. Blackwood of NASA JPL<\/em>\u00a0on\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seti.org\/weekly-lecture\/nasas-search-habitable-planets-and-life-beyond-solar-system\" target=\"_d\">NASA&#8217;s search for habitable planets and life beyond the solar system<\/a><\/em>\u00a0&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Dr. Gary H. Blackwood earned his BS, MS and PHD in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from MIT. He has been an employee at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA since 1988 and has worked on technology development for precision astronomical instruments and astrophysics missions including the Hubble Wide\/Field Planetary Camera-2, the StarLight formation-flying interferometer, the Space Interferometry Mission and the Terrestrial Planet Finder. Since 2012 he has served as the Program Manager for the NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program, managed by JPL for the Astrophysics Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VxKtJVjywLU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a SETI Institute talk by Dr. Gary H. Blackwood of NASA JPL\u00a0on\u00a0NASA&#8217;s search for habitable planets and life beyond the solar system\u00a0&#8211; Dr. Gary H. Blackwood earned his BS, MS and PHD in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from MIT. He has been an employee at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14101\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: &#8220;NASA&#8217;s search for habitable planets and life beyond the solar system&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exoplanets","category-seti"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3Fr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7397,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7397","url_meta":{"origin":14101,"position":0},"title":"Kepler space telescope finds first earth-size planet in habitable zone","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 18, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"An announcement from the NASA Kepler mission: NASA's Kepler Telescope Discovers First Earth-Size Planet in 'Habitable Zone' Using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the \"habitable zone\" -- the range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"PIA18000_ip","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/PIA18000_ip-1024x575.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":14518,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14518","url_meta":{"origin":14101,"position":1},"title":"Video: Kepler spots 219 more exoplanet candidates including 10 Earth-sized ones in habitable zones","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"More exoplanet candidates have been spotted by the Kepler space observatory including 10 that are nearly the size of Earth and orbit in the habitable zone of their stars. 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