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Mary Robinette Kowal
Episode 209
Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Mary Robinette Kowal joins us for a wide ranging discussion from her Lady Astronauts novels to her work as a pup…
5 years, 11 months ago
Big Black Holes and Tiny Water Worlds
Episode 208
The astroquarks go to DragonCon in this special edition of Walkabout the Galaxy. We review the latest gravitational wave discovery of the biggest sma…
5 years, 11 months ago
Pressures Great and Small
Episode 207
The astroquarks delve into the interiors of White Dwarfs, the relics of sunlike stars, with the help of Einstein's theory of general relativity. And …
6 years ago
Ceres is a Planet with Water!
Episode 206
Ceres, whatever you want to call it, seems to have a bunch of salty water near its surface. Top quark gets worked up about planet nomenclature, while…
6 years ago
The One With All The Fields
Episode 205
Low mass stars and high mass planets are the talk of the astroquarks in this episode, featuring a close-up look at the weather on Jupiter and a revis…
6 years ago
Strange Neutrinos and the Bucket Brigade
Episode 204
Deep in the interior of the Sun all the energy that supports life on Earth is created by fusing hydrogen into helium. For the first time, neutrinos p…
6 years ago
One Mystery Solved Another Mystery Deepens
Episode 203
The asteroid really did kill the dinosaurs, but the universe seems to be hiding something deeper and more mysterious from us about how it evolves. Cl…
6 years, 1 month ago
The Great Wall of Galaxies
Episode 202
Far, far away, beyond the Zone of Avoidance, lurking in darkest, deepest space, lies the great southern wall of galaxies! New mapping of the local un…
6 years, 1 month ago
Things That Go Bump in the Dark
Episode 201
Is it the tiniest black hole ever or the largest neutron star ever? We may never know, but one of them has been discovered thanks to gravitational wa…
6 years, 2 months ago
The 200th One
Episode 200
The 200th episode of Walkabout the Galaxy goes from odd Earthly atmospheric "elves" to mysterious new fundamental particles called axions, with a sto…
6 years, 2 months ago