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The astroquarks are wrapped up with the passage of time and the aging of the stars, the universe, and themselves as the first annual year of the astr…
6 years, 8 months ago
Hot Blobs and Magnetic Spots
Walkabout the Galaxy closes out 2019, the first annual Year of the Astroquark, with an episode touching on everything from interstellar comet I2/Bori…
6 years, 8 months ago
Jim the Asteroid Licker
Episode 177
An asteroid has been observed getting smashed to smithereens by another asteroid! And a medium-sized black hole has been observed, which oddly enough…
6 years, 8 months ago
Would You Like Your Chunky Space with a Swirl?
Strange quark is convinced that the swirls on the Moon are actually 2001 monoliths, and all three of your hosts are eager to go check them out. On th…
6 years, 9 months ago
Antimatter and Wormholes
Episode 175
An instrument on the International Space Station that can help us understand more about antimatter is getting an upgrade, and we review that old sci-…
6 years, 9 months ago
When a Giant Black Hole Blows a Lot of Gas
Episode 174
Yes, it's just as bad as the title suggests, because when a supermassive black hole in a galactic center really gets going it can shut down star form…
6 years, 9 months ago
Astroquark Soup
Some clever detective work has found one of the smallest black holes known. The astroquarks also take a look at the puzzling mess of the Hubble Const…
6 years, 9 months ago
The Vibration Dance and the Mole Shimmy
The astroquarks are joined by Dr. Renee Weber from NASA's Mars Insight mission to bring us the skinny on that spacecraft's mole's struggles to burrow…
6 years, 10 months ago
Bananas About Brown Dwarfs
The astroquarks are joined by Dr. Adam Burgasser from the Cool Star Lab at the University of California San Diego to talk about the mysterious member…
6 years, 10 months ago
Lost in Space: Rogue Planets and the Intergalactic Web
The astroquarks spin around the universe, from an ancient tree's rings providing clues to magnetic reversals on Earth to planets wandering among the …
6 years, 10 months ago