{"id":4635,"date":"2013-09-25T02:24:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T02:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4635"},"modified":"2013-09-25T02:24:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T02:24:44","slug":"video-the-colossus-telescope-and-the-search-for-exoplanets-with-advanced-tech-civilizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4635","title":{"rendered":"Video: The Colossus telescope and the search for exoplanets with advanced tech civilizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seti.org\" target=\"_blank\">SETI Institute<\/a> talk combines two amazing developments of our day &#8211; the discovery of exoplanets and the development of giant telescopes. Jeff Kuhn of the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii gives an excellent presentation (suitable for a wide audience) about <em>The Colossus Project: Designing an optical\/IR instrument to detect life outside the solar system:<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>This talk describes an effort to detect life, and even conduct a planetary census, in our cosmic neighborhood. I&#8217;ll describe some results from the Colossus group, an interdisciplinary science and engineering team, working to show how telescopes much larger than the TMT or EELT could be built today by relaxing some of the astronomical requirements of current &#8220;world&#8217;s largest telescope&#8221; projects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\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\/QpGDs7cyRMM?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>This SETI Institute talk combines two amazing developments of our day &#8211; the discovery of exoplanets and the development of giant telescopes. Jeff Kuhn of the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii gives an excellent presentation (suitable for a wide audience) about The Colossus Project: Designing an optical\/IR instrument to detect life outside &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4635\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: The Colossus telescope and the search for exoplanets with advanced tech civilizations<\/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":[12,46,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-exoplanets","category-science-and-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1cL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4193,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4193","url_meta":{"origin":4635,"position":0},"title":"Video: Breaking the Seeing Barrier for Planetary Astronomy","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The SETI Institute posts this video of a talk by Franck Marchis, about Breaking the Seeing Barrier for Planetary Astronomy http:\/\/youtu.be\/sfMJkuQWOIs Caption: When Galileo Galilei pointed his telescope toward Jupiter in 1609 and discovered what we now call the Galilean moons, he did not realized that he had just established\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/sfMJkuQWOIs\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4393,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4393","url_meta":{"origin":4635,"position":1},"title":"Video: Imaging habitable exoplanets + PANOPTES citizen science exoplanet search","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 10, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a very interesting SETI Institute seminar by Olivier Guyon about the possibilities of directly imaging planets in the habitable zones of stars by using coronagraph techniques on telescopes to suppress the glare of the star. 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