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Social Science & Culture

Seeking equality: Women in Planetary Science and Exploration Conference

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Imagine standing up in front of a room full of people and openly discussing feelings of vulnerability, fear, anger and pain. In my view, that’s an incredible act of bravery - and I was honoured to hear some of those brave personal accounts from the participants at the Women in Planetary Science and Exploration Conference (WPSE2018), which took place Feb 17-18, 2018 in Toronto, Canada. When it comes to the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM), women, people of colour, the

An artist's impression of comets orbiting another star

A Cometary Tale

An artist's impression of the Earth and Sun alignment during equinox

Understanding the Equinoxes

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

If you’re in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s the beginning of Spring, and if you’re in the Southern Hemisphere it’s the beginning of autumn. Either way, Science Advisor Jesse Rogerson explains why we have equinoxes in the first place.

Jupiter as imaged by the Juno Spacecraft

The Depths of Jupiter's Atmosphere

The planet neptune as imaged by the Voyager 2 spacecraft

Disappearing Storms on Neptune

An artists impression of an exoplanet

Planets like 'Tatooine' Could Still Be Habitable

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The first exosolar planet (a planet orbiting a star other than the Sun) was discovered in 1995, and since then humans have found over 3600 planets outside of our solar system. Some of those found are orbiting not one star like we do, but two stars. For example, stars Kepler-35A and 35B orbit each other, but a planet Kepler-35b, orbits both of them. This is much more like the fantasy word Tatooine in the space epic Star Wars than our own planet Earth. In A New Hope, we see young Luke Skywalker

Saturn's moon Enceladus. Image taken by Cassini

One of Saturn's moons might have tipped over

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Even nearing the end, the Cassini spacecraft is still producing amazing science. This story focuses on Saturn's moon Enceladus; researchers from Cornell University in New York say they have found evidence that the moon has changed its polar axis of spin. This is based on features they've found on the surface of the moon.

Jupiter at the Museum

A Tour of the Solar System

An artists impression of the Cassini spacecraft above Saturn

Understanding Saturn, its rings, and its moons: The Cassini-Huygens Mission

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is a dual orbiter (Cassini) and lander (Huygens) currently orbiting Saturn. It launched from Cape Canaveral on October 15, 1997, entered orbit around Saturn on the July 1, 2004, and has been studying the Saturnian system ever since. After two mission extensions, and a grand total of almost 13 years orbiting the giant gas planet, Cassini-Huygens’ mission is now coming to a close. The European Space Agency (ESA) built and operated the Huygens lander, which flew with

An artist's impression of a newly discovered exoplanet.

Newly Discovered Exoplanet May be Best Candidate in Search for Signs of Life

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

A newly discovered exoplanet, LHS 1140b, is being called the "best place to look for signs of life beyond the Solar System." The reason is because of a confluence of factors: the planet is likely rocky, orbits a relatively quiet star, passes in-front of its star from Earth's point-of-view every 25 days, and likely has an atmosphere. At the moment, studying that atmosphere in detail is not possible; however, with the next generation of telescopes coming online in the coming years (TMT, ELT, JWST)