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Why Is There A Universe At All?
Episode 410
Things would be a lot simpler and a lot less interesting if charge parity existed in the universe, but there would be no one to appreciate that simplicity because we would not exist! New results from…
Published on 4 hours ago
The Amazing and Crazy Story of Gemini and Jumbo Black Holes
Episode 409
The astroquarks are joined by Jeffrey Kluger, editor at large at Time Magazine and author of 13 books including Apollo 13 and the new book on the Gemini program. Tune in to hear about some of the out…
Published on 2 weeks ago
Rings Around a Comet, Betelbuddy, and Odd Jupiter Moons
Episode 408
These rings aren't around Uranus, they're somewhere even more odd. We discuss the mysterious and changing ring system around the Centaur object Chiron, new clues about the origin of the solar system …
Published on 3 weeks ago
Adaptive LIGO and a New Look at an Old Crater
Episode 407
Adaptive optics techniques get applied to the mirrors in the LIGO gravitational wave observatory, promising a five-fold or greater improvement in sensitivity to gravitational waves from colliding bla…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Einstein Cross Reveals Dark Matter and a Life-y Mars Rock
Episode 406
We take a look the Cheyava Falls rock on Mars, or rather the Perseverance rover took a look at it, and we discuss what it saw which were some intriguing mineral formations that could have a biologica…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Exo-Pluto Debris in Our Solar System and Axions Galore
Episode 405
An interstellar interloper may have been a chip off the old block, where the old block was a Pluto-like planet around another star, and the chip is solid air (nitrogen that is)! And we revisit the po…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Europa Clipper Report from Mars and ATLAS 3I Update from DragonCon 2025
Episode 404
That's no error, this is episode 404, recorded in front of a live audience at DragonCon 2025 with special guest Trina Ray, Deputy Science Manager for the Europa Clipper mission. We get an update from…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Trappist-1, ESCAPADE, and Axions
Episode 403
There is so much going on in the universe it's hard to keep track. That's why we have not one but two top astroquarks on this episode to cover the latest discoveries and news from the solar system to…
Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Weird Black Hole Blazar and Water Ice Glaciers on Mars
Episode 402
There's more abundant and accessible water ice on Mars, ready for us to scoop it up, heat it up, and eat it up. And in the distant recesses of the universe there's a supermassive black hole with an i…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Forbidden Black Hole Merger and Chaos on Europa
Episode 401
We discuss the largest black hole merger observed to date, between two black holes that are in the so-called forbidden mass range. They must have been created by some ancient merger of other black ho…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago