Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKronos the Planet Eater
Stars have a voracious appetite, gobbling up most of the stuff in their immediate neighborhood, leaving just a few scraps to make planets. Sometimes,…
8 years, 9 months ago
Rogue Asteroid!
That asteroid is rogue, and that's hyperbolic, but not hyperbole. The astroquarks welcome Dr. Dan Durda to discuss the first detection of a planetary…
8 years, 9 months ago
To Kilonova
Season 4 Episode 8
If two neutron stars collide in a galaxy 130 million light years away and no one has a gravitational wave observatory to detect it, does it make a so…
8 years, 9 months ago
I Left My Communicator on Sigma Iotia!
The astroquarks welcome noted science blogger and author Dr. Ethan Siegel whose new book Treknology takes a look at the intersection of science and s…
8 years, 10 months ago
SOFIA, Nobel and Kuiper - What's in a Name?
The astroquarks welcome WMFE space reporter Brendan Byrne who recounts his flight on the SOFIA airborne observatory. They hen vent about how the Nobe…
8 years, 10 months ago
OSIRIS-REx Gets the Gravity Assist and Scores!
How exactly (and why) does a spacecraft get a "gravitational assist" from a planet en route to another planet? Where does that energy come from? The …
8 years, 10 months ago
To Be, Cassini, Or Not To Be
Josh recounts experiencing the end of the Cassini mission and recalls more than a quarter century of involvement with the project in this episode. Th…
8 years, 11 months ago
Florence and the LIGO Machine
Asteroid Florence with her two mini-moons pays a visit to the Earth, while Tabby's Star continues to mystify with its unpredictable fluctuations in b…
8 years, 11 months ago
Are Those Diamonds on Uranus?
New experiments have created diamonds in the conditions expected in the interiors of Uranus and Neptune. Former Top Astroquark Tracy Becker joins Jos…
8 years, 11 months ago
Of Eclipses and Starspots
The astroquarks tell their eclipse stories from the Great American Eclipse. The Sun and every star has weather, spots, oscillations, flares and all s…
9 years ago