Media Requests
I love answering questions about astronomy, telling the stories of science and scientists, and sharing the excitement of studying the universe! If you have a media request you can contact me at astronomeremily [at] gmail dot com.
Selected TV/Video
TED talk on The Last Stargazers
Great Heroes and Discoveries of Astronomy (trailer)
New Day Northwest appearances:
– life beyond the solar system
– the science of leap years
– the first JWST images
Perimeter Institute talk on The Weirdest Stars in the Universe
PBS/KCTS9 feature on studying dying stars
TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin interview
Selected Radio and Podcasts
NPR’s TED Radio Hour – How Telescopes Have Transformed Stargazing
Clear + Vivid with Alan Alda – The Romance of the Night Sky
StoryCollider – Stories of COVID-19: Community
Startalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson – Cosmic Queries: Stargazing
Short Wave – Is Betelgeuse About to Explode?
Discussing “A Wrinkle In Time” with NPR’s All Things Considered and The Record
RadioLIVE with Ali Mau – spiders chasing laser pointers (yes, really)
Selected Articles
Shattering the Glass Ceiling: The Sky Is For Everyone: Women Astronomers in Their Own Words (Sky & Telescope book review, June 2023)
Great Dimming of Betelgeuse Explained (Nature, June 2021)
How Radio Astronomy Reveals the Universe (Quanta, Apr 2021)
Social Distancing from the Stars (Quanta, Aug 2020)
Why astronomy programs are moving on from the Physics GRE (Physics Today, Apr 2017)