Future News - Monarch Butterfly and Starfish Disease Mystery updates, Star Weather, Fake Snow, Robot Tongue, and a Star Report from Astronomer Joe Jordan

Listen Now to Dr. Future News 2.04.14

Lot of great news this week, including a visit to the studio by Astronomer Joe Jordan, who is very excited about this week’s winter sky and his art science project, “Skyhenge”  See previous post for details on that.  Enjoy!

Dr. Future News- Super Earth discovered, amazing telescope power, our Solar System's Membrane explored, A Dark Side of the Moon webcam, and What is Erotic? in the key of C.

Listen Now Dr. Future News 2.7.12

No shortage of interesting topics to explore this week- UCSC scientists discover what they are calling a Super Earth, Euro astronomers have figured out how to network large Earth-based telescopes to create one very large telescope in South America.  New info in on the boundary layer ‘membrane’ around our solar system, and you’ll love the first video of the dark side of the moon!  Soon, we’ll have access to a remote controlled webcam in orbit around the moon! 

And in our efforts to create a world beyond war, we feature an interview with Misha Bonaventura, the producer of this year’s “What is Erotic?”  gala event in Santa Cruz, where the community itself gets to participate in answering that most provacative question.

Don Davis, Visionary Space Artist

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Don Davis

Don Davis, 59, got his start in space art working at the U.S. Geological Survey doing the first Lunar maps while still a teenager. Few are capable of the detail and accuracy needed for planetary mapping, but Don’s maps are accurate enough to target spacecraft by. His attention to detail is legendary even among like-minded artists.

He won an EMMY award for his ground-breaking work in the classic PBS seriesCOSMOS, and also worked on PBS’ Planet Earth and Space Age series. His work is seen in TIME-LIFE BOOKS, SMITHSONIAN, NATURAL HISTORY magazines and OMNI to name a few. His filmwork and animation for NASA’a Jet Propulsion Lab include Voyager and Galileo flyby sequences.

He frequently illustrated books and articles by the late Carl Sagan, and he also collaborated for many years with Sagan for his essays in Sunday PARADE magazine. Lately his work has turned primarily digital and is often seen on the Discovery Channel and The Learning Channel in various documentaries on cosmic subjects.