All Aboard The Dream Train

Welcome and thank you for listening to All Aboard The Dream Train. A dream storytelling podcast where people from all walks of life walk us through their dreams and how those dreams have affected them in their waking life. Where we explore the differences, similarities and connections between our dream life and our waking life.   In todays episode we hear from Paul Kalas.    I am a faculty member in the Astronomy Department at the University of California, Berkeley, and affiliated with the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, and the Institute of Astrophysics in Heraklion, Crete.   My expertise is searching for planetary systems around nearby stars using direct imaging.  My methods involve data from the world’s most advanced observatories, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, Keck Observatory, the Gemini Telescopes, and ALMA. One remarkable image is the planetary system surrounding Fomalhaut (see below), which is a bright star located 25 light years away in the constellation Pisces Australis. Though di