NASA's Curious Universe - Introducing NASA’s Curious Universe Season Two

Episode Date: October 5, 2020

Our universe is a wild and wonderful place. Join NASA astronauts, scientists and engineers on a new adventure each week — all you need is your curiosity. Go asteroid hunting, explore faraway galaxies, and watch a black hole as it begins to form. First-time space explorers welcome.

The thing about astronomy is that it gets to the heart of the big questions that we have as human beings. Where did we come from? Are we alone in the universe? Our universe is a wild and wonderful place. Welcome to NASA's curious universe. In this podcast, NASA is your tour guide. For the past 20 years, we have been a space-faring civilization. If you were born after the year 2000, you haven't lived a single day without human beings in space.

Almost 17 years of my career has been focused on this one day to make sure everything goes according to plan. It really all happens in less than 20 seconds. Think of something that's moving very slow, about 0.8 or 0.9 miles an hour, moving this big rocket down the road. It just goes... And it just gets louder and it just gets louder and it just gets louder. louder. We actually think there are probably close to 100 million black holes just in the Milky Way alone, all sprinkled around dead ashes of stars. It's those mysteries that are out there in the universe that we haven't even dreamed of yet. I think the universe is going to surprise us.

NASA's Curious Universe Season 2. Coming to your ears this October. Subscribe right now and get ready for a grand adventure.