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Taking the Measure of the Milky Way
Episode 219
Astrometry, what is it good for? Among other things it tells us where the heck we are, and that turns out to be only 25,000 light years away from the…
5 years, 8 months ago
Something Old, Something Blue
Episode 218
We are not only star stuff, we are also Big Bang stuff! We learn about how the formation of deuterium in the first few minutes after the Big Bang has…
5 years, 9 months ago
The Birth of a Magnetar
Episode 217
Learn about a catastrophic merger of neutron stars that resulted in a weird beast known as a magnetar. Also, your Astroquarks take a look at a new mo…
5 years, 9 months ago
We Saw a Magnetar Burp!
Episode 216
A Fast Radio Burst (we like to call them Furbies) has been seen coming from a highly magnetic neutron star right here in our own galactic backyard. A…
5 years, 9 months ago
OMG The Moon!
Episode 215
Charm quark Addie Dove is over the Moon about the announcement that water molecules have been found in minerals all over the lunar surface. We also t…
5 years, 9 months ago
Asteroid Bennu Gets TAGged!
Episode 214
Join us for a behind-the-scenes blow-by-blow discussion of the activities of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission as it made contact with the asteroid Bennu and…
5 years, 10 months ago
The Airing of Grievances
Episode 213
We celebrate the Nobel Prize in Physics for Roger Penrose and Andrea Ghez and Reinhard Genzel for discoveries about black holes, but Strange quark ha…
5 years, 10 months ago
Jerk, Snap, Crackle, Pop
Episode 212
A nifty story about complexity from the simplicity of gravity helps reveal the origins of the comets in the Oort Cloud and explain their current dist…
5 years, 10 months ago
It's a Small Waterworld
Episode 211
New research shows that Enceladus's ocean may have produced geysers at different locations on the small moon in the past, and the odd shapes of stell…
5 years, 11 months ago
A Deep Dive into Venus's Atmosphere
Episode 210
With all the excitement about the potential discovery of a biomarker, Phosphine, on Venus, we take a close look at the observations with Venus expert…
5 years, 11 months ago