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Sterile Neutrinos and True Polar Wander
Episode 259
Meet Up Quark Hannah Sargeant as we explore the role of neutrinos in understanding the universe and the coupled evolution of Pluto's climate and spin…
4 years, 9 months ago
A World That's Out Of This Galaxy
Episode 258
Almost all exoplanets have been discovered in our local neighborhood of the Milky Way, with a few exceptions due to gravitational microlensing, still…
4 years, 10 months ago
Captain Kirk Goes to Space and Other Oddities
Episode 257
So much going on: Shatner goes to space, the astroquarks ponder time travel, Tunguska may have been a near miss, free neutron decay holds the key to …
4 years, 10 months ago
Binaries Galore
Episode 256
The intrepid New Horizons spacecraft has discovered close binary comets in the Kuiper belt, and the Lucy mission is getting ready to explore binary t…
4 years, 10 months ago
Centaurs and Rocky Clouds
Episode 255
Comet 29P is on an odd, distant orbit, between Jupiter and Saturn, and like a fidgety child sent to the corner, it keeps having unpredictable outburs…
4 years, 10 months ago
The Psychohistory of Astroquarks
Episode 254
We discuss not one but two galactic civilizations (Dune and Foundation) coming to screens big and small this Fall. Life being a central part of most …
4 years, 11 months ago
Taking the Measure of the Universe with Quasars
Episode 253
Quasars, those incredibly bright and distant sources powered by supermassive black holes, may have a trick to their radiation that let's us use them …
4 years, 11 months ago
The Mind Blowing Wave Particle Duality of Light
Episode 252
Light's odd way of behaving both like a particle and a wave is nothing new, but a cool new experiment shows that it's not an either/or but a continuu…
4 years, 11 months ago
Odd Galaxies and Odder Planets
Episode 251
We explore dwarf galaxies with no star formation and dwarf planets with a clue to a lurking object in the outer solar system. But first Top Quark is …
4 years, 11 months ago
Hycean Worlds and Nudging Asteroids
Episode 250
Will we find extraterrestrial life on Mars, Europa, or an exoplanet like Earth? Or will it be on an entirely different kind of planet, larger than th…
5 years ago