Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLeft and Right in the Universe
There is no center of the universe, no top or bottom (except for our astroquarks!), but all sorts of things in the universe have a definite handednes…
7 years, 2 months ago
The Universe is Running Hot and Cold
The universe began in a hot, dense state, as the song goes, and we can, oddly, see that heat from the thing that we are still in. The universe. Stran…
7 years, 2 months ago
Forbidden Planets
The astroquarks take a stroll through the extrasolar planetary zoo where there are new members of the close-to-Earth-sized club and a peculiar Neptun…
7 years, 2 months ago
All About Bob
NASA unveils a new accelerated timeline to get astronauts forward (not back, get it?) to the Moon in 2024 with the new Artemis program. The astroquar…
7 years, 3 months ago
Moon Quakes and Venus Shakes
The astroquarks discuss news about lunar quakes and Venus... volcanoes. But volcanoes doesn't rhyme with quakes, so I sacrificed alliteration for rhy…
7 years, 3 months ago
Impacts Large and Small and Very Large
From a human-made crater (well, spacecraft-made) on an asteroid, to the Moon-forming impact, to an accelerating pace of black hole merger detections,…
7 years, 3 months ago
Is Mars Farting or Burping?
Scientists have been chasing methane on Mars for years. It's a slippery little molecule that doesn't stick around very long and has several biologica…
7 years, 4 months ago
I Can See Your Black Hole From Here
We discuss the dramatic first view of a black hole in a special episode recorded in front of a live audience. In addition to the Event Horizon Telesc…
7 years, 4 months ago
There are Dark Forces at Work in the Universe
Just when you thought Dark Energy couldn't get any stranger, new measurements of the history of the expansion of the universe show an era well after …
7 years, 5 months ago
Bennu is Puking Asteroid Pebbles
We are joined by asteroid expert and "b" quark Dr. Zoe Landsman to discuss the remarkable discovery by the OSIRIS-REx mission that the asteroid it is…
7 years, 5 months ago