[Interview] Detecting Earth-Size Exoplanets with Magnetospheres

Magnetospheres seem to be a very important factor when considering how habitable a planet is. So it was really exciting when it was announced that an Earth-size exoplanet's magnetosphere was detected using radio telescopes. It can also be a method to look for exoplanets by detecting their magnetic fields.

I'm discussing this discovery with Dr Joe Pesce who is the Program Director at National Science Foundation.

More about the discovery:
https://www.universetoday.com/160864/do-repeating-radio-signals-indicate-an-exoplanet-with-a-magnetosphere/

🦄 Support us on Patreon:
https://patreon.com/universetoday

• 00:00 Intro
• 00:19 An exoplanet with a magnetosphere
• 06:10 Alternative explanations
• 11:38 Detecting magnetospheres with existing telescopes
• 17:30 Scaling up the method
• 21:38 Big surveys with radio telescopes
• 25:38 What's next

📺 VIDEO VERSION
https://youtu.be/p1PnoSoH0ys

📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER
Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.
Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter

🎧 PODCASTS
Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/
Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/

🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain
Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday
Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday
Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday

📩 CONTACT FRASER
[email protected]

⚖️ LICENSE
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)