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Cosmic Game Connections Posted onSeptember 28, 2020September 27, 2020

Cosmic Game Connections: Habitability and Planetarium

Earlier this year, NASA’s TESS mission announced its first discovery of an Earth-sized world in the planet’s habitable zone. TESS, which is short for Transiting […] Read More

Cosmic Game Connections Posted onApril 2, 2020September 27, 2020

Cosmic Game Connections: Solar Carmel Corn and Takenoko

The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope recently released its first image of the solar surface — the highest resolution image of the […] Read More

Cosmic Game Connections Posted onMarch 1, 2020March 1, 2020

Cosmic Game Connections: Wacky Neutron Stars & Pulsar 2849

NASA’s NICER telescope recently released the first-ever surface map of a pulsar, which came with some surprises. How did this finding “break” the standard model […] Read More

Cosmic Game Connections Posted onDecember 1, 2019November 24, 2019

Cosmic Game Connections: Missing Mass and Gingerbread House

Recently, NASA’s HaloSat completed its first year of science operations. This cubesat is working on one of the big mysteries of astronomy. In this video […] Read More

A Side of Science Posted onNovember 18, 2019October 29, 2019

A Side of Science: Planet Hunting and Black Holes

In my latest video, I talked about how NASA’s TESS recently observed a star shredding black hole. But, TESS stands for “Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite” […] Read More

Cosmic Game Connections Posted onOctober 28, 2019October 27, 2019

Cosmic Game Connections: Rule #1 of Black Holes and Clank!

NASA recently announced that it’s planet hunter, TESS, had observed its first star shredded by a black hole in a tidal disruption event. What happened to that star? And what is TESS helping scientists learn about it? I talk about this and how the discovery connects to the game Clank!

Cosmic Game Connections Posted onSeptember 3, 2019

Cosmic Game Connections: Black Hole Influencers and On Tour

A group of researchers recently reported that they were able to determine the mass of a supermassive black hole by mapping out a disk of gas swirling around it. In this video I discuss this result and how it connects to the game On Tour.

Science in Games Posted onAugust 6, 2019July 30, 2019

Should space-themed games get the science right?

A little while ago I wrote about space as a theme in games, and how one compelling reason to use it as a them is […] Read More

Cosmic Game Connections Posted onJuly 25, 2019

Cosmic Game Connections: The Periodic Table and Century: Golem Edition

This year – 2019 – has been named the International Year of the Periodic Table to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the development of this tool that is used across the sciences. I discuss how an astronomer sees the periodic table and how it connects to the game Century: Golem Edition (or Century Spice Road).

Cosmic Game Connections Posted onJune 16, 2019

Cosmic Game Connections: Space Donuts and Factory Funner

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory recently announced that for the first time they had imaged the dusty ring around a type of galaxy called an […] Read More

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I’ve been a lifelong gamer. Lately tabletop games, but over my life I’ve been an Atari 2600, Nintendo 8-bit, Playstation, and Wii gamer. There’s even been the infrequent role playing campaign.

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