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Ethical Dilemmas in Space Exploration
Episode 341
The astroquarks are joined by Dr. Erika Nesvold, astrophysicist and author of "Off Earth: Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space"…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Origin of Supermassive Black Holes
Episode 340
JWST data confirm early formation of supermassive black holes, less than 500 million years after the big bang. This early formation suggests these mo…
2 years, 9 months ago
Dinky and the S8 Tension
Episode 339
The Lucy spacecraft had its first asteroid encounter, revealing Dinkinesh to be a binary asteroid. In cosmology, a new simulation with a terrible ac…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Surprising Interiors of Mars and Venus
Episode 338
New research suggests that Venus, Earth's twin gone bad, may have started off with tectonic plate activity, like Earth. This will help us understand …
2 years, 10 months ago
Detecting ETs and Intergalactic Baryons
Episode 337
Fast Radio Bursts are back, this time providing a crucial measurement of the amount of normal matter in the universe. Top quark Jim Cooney explains h…
2 years, 10 months ago
Neutron Star Quakes and the Streaming Instability
Episode 336
Images of the distant Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth add more weight to the pebble accretion model of planetesimal formation via the streaming instabili…
2 years, 10 months ago
Pangaea Ultima, Antimatter Gravity, and the Evection Resonance
Episode 335
The next supercontinent could spell bad news for mammals. The equivalence principle passes another test, with antimatter atoms falling just like norm…
2 years, 10 months ago
Short Take: Asteroid Sample and Dark Matter Hopes
Episode 334
Strange and Top discuss the return of the sample from the asteroid Bennu and an intriguing measurement from a dark matter detector in Italy in this, …
2 years, 11 months ago
Trouble in the Universe: El Gordo and Dinky
Episode 333
There's more tension in the standard model of the history of the universe. Giant superclusters of galaxies formed early than we thought they could. T…
2 years, 11 months ago
Ho'oleilana and Weird Spots on Mercury
Episode 332
This episode is about hollows in space on very different scales and for very different reasons. Ho'oleilana is the largest observed structure in the …
2 years, 11 months ago