Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchOf Zombies, Comets and Kilograms
The weight on that box of breakfast cereal ultimately traces back to "le grand K", a metal sphere in a vault in Paris, a wonderfully archaic standard…
9 years ago
Cold and Hard, not Warm and Fuzzy
The Sun doesn't just shine, it rings like a bell, or a drumhead wrapped into a ginormous ball of incandescent plasma. The astroquarks talk about how …
9 years ago
Going Rogue!
If the controversy over Pluto's planetary status weren't already enough, what do you call a planet that is not even orbiting a star? The astroquarks …
9 years, 1 month ago
Teleport Me to the Great Red Spot!
Dr. Kristen John of NASA's Johnson Space Center joins the Astroquarks for a wide-ranging discussion on topics from Jupiter's Great Red Spot to telepo…
9 years, 1 month ago
Where No One Has Gone Before
The astroquarks are joined by Dr. Phil Metzger who spends a lot of time thinking about how our civilization can make the great leap into space. We ma…
9 years, 1 month ago
Is Planet 9 Lost in Space?
Planet 9, also known as Egotron in honor of its supporters, has never been seen. A new statistical analysis of a deep sky survey suggests that's beca…
9 years, 2 months ago
Leggo my LIGO!
The astroquarks take a look at new indications of water ice on the Moon, evidence that Jupiter formed in less than a million years, and the third det…
9 years, 2 months ago
Uranus Gets Bedazzled!
How many jokes can the three astroquarks make about the pronunciation of the seventh planet? You'll have to tune in to this episode of WtG to find ou…
9 years, 2 months ago
Is That Inflation Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?
You may think of inflation as prices creeping higher, but to a cosmologist it's been an important idea to explain why the universe is so uniform on v…
9 years, 3 months ago
Juno What I Mean!
The Juno mission is studying Jupiter's interior, but its citizen-scientist JunoCam is returning stunning images of the largest planet. Hear the astro…
9 years, 3 months ago