Podcast Episodes
Back to Search2024 May 08 - Visualization: A Black Hole Accretion Disk
In today's image, we see an animation which shows the central regions around a black hole including the accretion disk. The 15-second video allows us…
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2024 May 07 - Black Hole Accreting with Jet
In today's image, we see an artist's conception of an event observed in 2014. A massive explosion was observed which has since been modeled as a star…
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2024 May 06 - A Total Solar Eclipse from Sliver to Ring
In today's image, we see time-lapse of the total solar eclipse of April 8 of this year. We will see the Moon appear in the lower right and move to fu…
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2024 May 05 - A Black Hole Disrupts a Passing Star
In today's image, we see an artist's conception of what would happen as a black hole tears apart a passing star. Once the material crosses the event …
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2024 May 04 - 3 ATs
In today's image, we see three Auxiliary Telescopes which are used with the VLT telescopes to simulate larger mirrors using interferometry. This allo…
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2024 May 03 - Temperatures on WASP-43b
In today's image, we see an illustration of the orbit of the exoplanet WASP-43b. This is a nearby planet, less than 300 light years from Earth. It is…
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2024 May 02 - M100: A Grand Design Spiral Galaxy
In today's image, we see the spiral galaxy known as M100 - this is an example of what is called a grand design spiral galaxy for its majestic spiral …
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2024 May 01 - IC 1795: The Fishhead Nebula
In today's image, we see the star forming region known as the Fishhead Nebula and also by its catalog designation of IC 1795. This region has been im…
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2024 April 30 - GK Per: Nova and Planetary Nebula
In today's image, we see GK Per which was seen to explode as a nova back in 1901. A nova occurs when material builds up on the surface of a white dwa…
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2024 April 29 - Comet, Planet, Moon
In today's image, we see the comet known as Pons-Brooks which has no rounded the Sun and is beginning its journey back to the outer solar system. In …
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