Why do strange astronomy?
Audio 48:30
Astronomy of the strange by Yaël Nazé © Belin
By: Caroline Lachowsky
51 min
From the most bizarre celestial objects to the craziest astronomical ideas, when cosmic and sometimes comical reality exceeds anything we can imagine even in our craziest hallucinations or sci-fi scenario.
Sidereal and astonishing, in firecracker or crumpled up, the universe has not finished surprising us as we are going to discover thanks to a singular astronomer too!
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We
welcome Yaël Nasé
, astronomer and senior researcher at the FNRS, who is leading his research at the Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics at the University of Liège in Belgium and the transmission of his astronomical and eclectic knowledge.
Yaël Nasé has received several awards for his popularization activity and has just published
L'astronomie de l'
Érange (
The Strange Astronomy) for
Belin editions
.
With the lights of:
Nabila Aghanim
, cosmologist at the Institute of Space Astrophysics (IAS) in Orsay, CNRS silver medalist in 2017:
For me, the strangest object in the cosmos is Earth.
It is a unique object, no equivalent has been observed!
François Forget
, planetologist, research director at CNRS and member of the Academy of Sciences:
When I think of dark matter, the big bang, I'm completely disoriented.
Julien Mariez
, head of the legal department of CNES:
If tomorrow we come into contact with an extraterrestrial civilization, to what extent are we going to formalize our legal relations?
Will there be cooperation agreements between Earth and other civilizations?
This would be the ultimate mission of the space lawyer!
For further :
The TED talk by
Karen Meech
, American astronomer and teacher-researcher at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Hawaii.
In 2018, she told the story of the discovery of Oumuamua, the first visitor from another star system ...
Soundtrack of the show:
Vangelis -
Pulstar
Bjork -
Cosmogony
Wang Chung -
Space Junk
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