Reading Starlight: In Conversation with Michelle Kunimoto - Part II

Interview with Michelle KunimotoThe Blue Hour — CiTR 101.9 FM Recorded live in studio at CiTR 101.9 FM at the AMS Nest, University of British Columbia. This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and readability. Minor verbal repetitions and filler words have been removed. The conversational structure and original wording have otherwise been preserved as closely as possible. Read Part I — Reading Starlight. Farha Guerrero: And I can’t help myself with jumping right into the idea of rogue planets because that’s something very TESS — if I’m not mistaken? Michelle Kunimoto: Well, so I believe my team are the only people in the world who have actually done a rogue planet search with TESS. It’s a very new idea because TESS was never designed to search for rogue planets. But there’s going to be a mission launching later this year, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. It’s the next flagship mission out of NASA, and searching for rogue planets is going to be a really big goal of…