The three stargazers welcome their first guest and bonafide physics writer Calla Coffield (Space.com) to talk about the identification of earthlike planets 14,000 lightyears away. Calla discusses Kepler 452b and its prospects as a habitable planet, Raj confesses he wrote angsty sci-fi short stories as a youth, Jono skypes in from outer space to explain the origin of crop circles, and Joe is worried about the shadow biosphere.

The paper: "DISCOVERY AND VALIDATION OF Kepler-452b: A 1.6 RÅ SUPER EARTH EXOPLANET IN THE HABITABLE ZONE OF A G2 STAR" (Jenkins et al., 2015).

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