Why do weird astronomy?
Audio 48:30
“Astronomy of the strange”, by Yaël Nazé.
© Editions Belin
By: Caroline Lachowsky
53 mins
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 scenarios.
Sidereal and astonishing, in firecracker or crumpled, the universe has not finished surprising us as we are going to discover thanks to a singular astronomer too!
(Replay of February 17, 2021).
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We welcome
Yaël Nazé
, astronomer and senior researcher at the
FNRS
, who is
simultaneously
carrying out his research at the
Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics
of the University of Liège in Belgium and the transmission of his astronomical and eclectic knowledge.
Yaël Nazé has received several prizes 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, of the big bang, I am 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!
To go 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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