Brittany Zimmerman on Exploring Space and Saving Earth - Astronomy News with The Cosmic Companion June 22, 2021
Talking with Brittany Zimmerman, CEO of Yummet, about her work designing systems to explore space, and preserve our world here at home.
A look at how space exploration benefits us here at home, the Hubble Space Telescope goes offline, Dr. Stella Kafka explains new findings about Betelgeuse, and what is that galaxy doing without dark matter?
Brittany Zimmerman, CEO of Yummet, visits Astronomy News with The Cosmic Companion June 22, 2021.
Hello everyone!
This week on Astronomy News with The Cosmic Companion, we welcome Brittany Zimmerman to the show. She is CEO of Yummet, an organization developing technology for living in space, as well as preserving our environment right here on Earth.
But first, we look in on the Hubble Space Telescope, as that famed instrument powers down, following a computer failure. Next, we look at a new study examining the causes of the recent dimming of the star Betelgeuse. Finally, we journey out to a pair of distant galaxies that appear to be missing one critical ingredient – dark matter.
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Our upcoming guests are burning up the summer!
June 29 (s4/e26): Alyssa Mills, Graduate intern at JPL, talks about the largest moon in the Solar System, Ganymede.
July 6 (s5/e1): SEASON FIVE PREMERE! New York Times bestselling author Earl Swift, author of Across the Airless Wilds, the first major history of NASA’s lunar buggy.
July 13 (s5/e2): Stella Kafka, CEO of The American Association of Variable Star Observers, talking about Betelgeuse.
July 20 (s5/e3): ~just announced~ Geoff Notkin, host of Meteorite Men on the Science Channel and president of the National Space Society, talks meteorites.
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