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What is Planet Nine? with Harvard's Amir Siraj
The mystery of planet nine deepens as a new theory from Amir Siraj and Avi Loeb of Harvard attempts to explain what exactly might be hiding in the oo…
3 weeks ago
What is Causing the Mysterious Dimming of Betelgeuse? with Dr. Andrea Dupree
Why is Betelgeuse dimming?The supergiant is going to end its life as a supernova. Is the sudden dimming a warning sign? Betelgeuse is a variable red …
3 weeks, 2 days ago
What Would an Alien Megastructure Look Like? Ringworlds with Larry Niven and Gregory Benford
From both Gregory Benford and Larry Niven comes a thrilling, hard science fiction series, Bowl of Heaven, that follows a human expedition to another …
3 weeks, 4 days ago
What BLC1 Could Be With Dr. Avi Loeb
BLC1 is a candidate SETI radio signal announced in December 2020, spatially coincident with the star Proxima Centauri.BLC1 stands for Breakthrough Li…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
What Are Odd Radio Circles? With Prof. Ray Norris
What are Odd Radio Circles? Are Odd Radio Circles Wormholes?An Odd radio circle (ORC) is a very large unexplained astronomical object that, at radio …
4 weeks, 1 day ago
Was the WOW! Signal a Sign of Extraterrestrial Life? With Dr. Robert Dixon
An exploration of the Wow! Signal, picked up at the Big Ear radio telescope in 1977. This signal remains unexplained to this day, and represents the …
1 month ago
Uncovering the Secrets of the Cosmic Microwave Background with Dr. Brian Keating
What is the CMB Cold spot?A discussion of the secrets of the Cosmic Microwave Background and how it can be used to help find things like Planet 9 and…
1 month ago
There is a Sea of Interstellar Objects in the Galaxy with Amir Siraj of Harvard
Oumuamua and Borisov were the first two interstellar objects found in our Solar system. And with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory about to become operat…
1 month ago
There Are Discrepancies in Physics with Dr. Brian Keating
A discussion of possible detections of Lorentz Invariance violations found from observations of Cosmic Birefringence which may hint at new unknown ph…
1 month ago
The Voyager Record with Timothy Ferris
Do Alien Civilizations simply exist too far away and at different periods to ever truly find each other? Would a galactic internet help us connect wi…
1 month, 1 week ago