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Is the Universe Left or Right-Handed?
Episode 321
Lefty astroquark Jim Cooney leads us on an exploration of what it means for the universe to have chirality. In other words, is there a break in parit…
3 years, 3 months ago
Scary Things That Can Happen To Planets
Episode 320
We take a deep dive into the origin of Mars's moons and whether they are chips off the old block. There's no research to explain the mystery of why M…
3 years, 3 months ago
Crazy Rings, Watery Moons, and Ancient Black Holes
Episode 319
We explore the strange ring system of dwarf planet Quaoar, and discuss a new study that suggests that Uranus's four largest moons (which aren't reall…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Impact of Impacts on Water on Mars
Episode 318
New calculations show how large impacts onto Mars may have boosted its greenhouse effect, helping explain how it was warm enough for all those rivers…
3 years, 4 months ago
Live at Nerd Nite with the Moon, JUICE, and M87 Black Hole
Episode 317
We return to Orlando Nerd Nite for a live recording where we take a look at the exciting upcoming missions to the Moon and the ESA mission to Jupiter…
3 years, 4 months ago
MegaCon 2023 and JWST
Episode 316
Space reporter Brendan Byrne becomes an honorary astroquark at MEGACON 2023 where we take a look at some of the recent and landmark discoveries of JW…
3 years, 4 months ago
Oumuamua Explained and Dark Matter Near Black Holes
Episode 315
That interstellar comet appears to have gotten its odd behavior from the natural rocket effect of hydrogen gas being released near the Sun and not, s…
3 years, 5 months ago
Active Volcanism on Venus!
Episode 314
Compelling evidence for recent (1990's!) volcanic activity on Venus has been un-Earthed, or rather un-Venused, by Robert Herrick through analysis of …
3 years, 5 months ago
It's About Time!
Episode 313
What time is it on the Moon? It turns out the answer to that is not as easy as just lining it up with a time on the Earth. Worse, it's not even that …
3 years, 5 months ago
Sweet Europa Tail
Episode 312
Learn about active asteroids and how the DART mission kind of turned an asteroid into an active asteroid, how impacts into Mercury have given it a du…
3 years, 5 months ago