Space science is one of the few sciences that can spark wonder and imagining in almost anyone. It also happens to be the domain of Python with many missions, telescopes, and analysis happening with Python playing a major role. On this episode we have Thomas Albin who has worked on several recent space missions. He has created a delightful YouTube channel called Space Science with Python. It's approachable and yet concrete and realistic. We are going to dive into some of his videos and see how Python can model things like astroid fly-bys and render comets in 3D. 
 
Links from the show 
 
<div>Thomas Albin: <a href="https://astrodon.social/@ThomasAlbin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">astrodon.social/@ThomasAlbin</a> 
Thomas on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAstroThomas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@MrAstroThomas</a> 
 
YouTube Channels 
Thomas' Space Science Channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvuCPVj5zTjxdR-EcatFfUg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">youtube.com</a> 
Dr Becky's Channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYNbYGl89UUowy8oXkipC-Q" target="_blank" rel="noopener">youtube.com</a> 
Astrum Channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@astrumspace" target="_blank" rel="noopener">youtube.com/@astrumspace</a> 
Talk Python's Channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@talkpython" target="_blank" rel="noopener">youtube.comyoutube.com/@talkpython</a> 
Michael's Channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@mikeckennedy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">youtube.com/@mikeckennedy</a> 
 
Cassini Mission: <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/main/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nasa.gov</a> 
Comet: 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/67P/Churyumov%E2%80%93Gerasimenko" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wikipedia.org</a> 
Code from the series: <a href="https://github.com/ThomasAlbin/Astroniz-YT-Tutorials" target="_blank" rel="noopener">github.com</a> 
 
Space Science with Python Play List: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNvIBWkEdZ2iCc8G9dvx6MQvBruJG-TE8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">youtube.com</a> 
Video: Comet in 3D: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g0faJRBWm7c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">youtube.com</a> 
Video: Philae's Landing: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RNSSe5Ko2Jg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">youtube.com</a> 
Video: Support Vector Machines - Intro: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eMPR9frU-sc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">youtube.com</a> 
Video: Autoencoder Latent Space Visualization: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h26O2qbc5DA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">youtube.com</a> 
 
Packages 
spiceypy: <a href="https://pypi.org/project/spiceypy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pypi.org</a> 
imageio: <a href="https://pypi.org/project/imageio/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pypi.org</a> 
visvis: <a href="https://github.com/almarklein/visvis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">github.com</a> 
astropy: <a href="https://www.astropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">astropy.org</a> 
Watch this episode on YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6royljv8zWI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">youtube.com</a> 
Episode transcripts: <a href="https://talkpython.fm/episodes/transcript/393/space-science-with-python" target="_blank" rel="noopener">talkpython.fm</a> 
 
--- Stay in touch with us --- 
Subscribe to us on YouTube: <a href="https://talkpython.fm/youtube" target="_blank" rel="noopener">youtube.com</a> 
Follow Talk Python on Mastodon: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/web/@talkpython" target="_blank" rel="noopener">talkpython</a> 
Follow Michael on Mastodon: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/web/@mkennedy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mkennedy</a> </div> 
Sponsors 
<a href='https://talkpython.fm/compiler'>RedHat</a>
<a href='https://talkpython.fm/awsinsiders'>AWS Insiders</a>
<a href='https://talkpython.fm/assemblyai'>AssemblyAI</a>
<a href='https://talkpython.fm/training'>Talk Python Training</a>

Podurama

Home

Trending

Personal

Your Podcasts

New Episodes

My Files

Favourite Episodes

Tags (Folders)

Recently Played

Bookmarks

Followed Playlists

#393: Space Science with Python

Talk Python To Me