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Of Magnetars and Mars
Episode 199
Astronomers may have found the smoking gun for fast radio bursts in the form of a magnetar in our own galaxy. These highly magnetic neutron stars now…
6 years, 2 months ago
Planet Formation Caught in the Act
Episode 198
The astroquarks discuss stunning images of a disk of gas and dust around another star giving birth to a planet, more weirdities and oddness in the Ea…
6 years, 2 months ago
The Universe May Be Empty But We Are Together
Episode 197
The astroquarks are face to face to face at a safe physical (not social!) distance. We zoom out, without zoom, to explore the question of the origin …
6 years, 3 months ago
A Backyard Black Hole
Episode 196
Everyone's favorite scary astronomical object, the black hole, just got a bit closer to home with the discovery of a modest, stellar-sized black hole…
6 years, 3 months ago
Is The Sun a Sunlike Star
Episode 195
As the Sun starts getting more active at the beginning of a new solar cycle, new observations of sunlike stars show that the Sun itself may be unusua…
6 years, 3 months ago
The Quark with a Fork
Episode 194
Former co-host Dr. Tracy Becker joins us to talk about exploring the geysers of Jupiter's moon Europa, the 30th anniversary of the Hubble Space Teles…
6 years, 4 months ago
When You Wish Upon a Neutrino
Episode 193
We love antimatter, and we love the matter-antimatter paradox. How come there was just a smidge more matter in the universe than antimatter? Neutrino…
6 years, 4 months ago
Psyche Out: Metal Asteroids and an Irregular Universe
Episode 192
We welcome special guest Dr. Zoe Landsman back to the show to tell us about the metal asteroid Psyche and the eponymous mission to visit it. We get a…
6 years, 4 months ago
Alien Life and Star Trek Diseases
Episode 191
Professor Mohamed Noor, Star Trek Advisor, Dean of Natural Sciences at Duke University, and author of "Live Long and Evolve", comes back to the show …
6 years, 4 months ago
The Importance of Being Gassy
Episode 190
The astroquarks show remarkable restraint by refusing to say that Uranus emitted a big blob of gas. Instead they keep things astronomically professio…
6 years, 5 months ago