Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Sun Needs a Red Corvette
The Sun may be showing signs of belatedly entering a mid-life crisis of sorts. A sporty new car may improve the Sun's mood, as its spin and sunspot p…
10 years, 1 month ago
Earth's Mini-Stalker
Lurking out there beyond the orbit of the Moon is a sneaky little asteroid that is stalking the Earth, meandering around and pretending not to be pay…
10 years, 1 month ago
Black Holes: What Goes In Might Come Out
While we stick by our longstanding advice never to enter a black hole, Jim Cooney and Zoe Landsman join Josh and Addie in this episode to discuss new…
10 years, 2 months ago
Watching Supernovae with H2O
In the good old days you needed a lens or a mirror to have a telescope, but now they'll use any old thing to look at the sky: ultra-precise orthogona…
10 years, 3 months ago
Take Me to Mars (and Back Again!)
Josh and Addie welcome Julie Brisset to discuss the comings and goings of SpaceX Dragon capsules to Earth as well as planned (unmanned) missions to M…
10 years, 3 months ago
Supernova Breakout!
Just when you thought a supernova couldn't get any cooler (metaphorically speaking, of course), the Kepler spacecraft comes along and spies for the f…
10 years, 4 months ago
Nice Model Not So Nice
Ten years after the development of a dramatic new picture of the early history of the solar system, dubbed the Nice model (it was created at the Obse…
10 years, 5 months ago
The Babiest Galaxy
Jim Cooney joins Josh and Addie to talk about the origin of galaxies and the observation of a galaxy from when the universe was but a teeny weeny bab…
10 years, 5 months ago
Attack of the Gravitational Wave
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, two big black holes (no jokes, please) collided with each other releasing a ginormous amount of energy tha…
10 years, 6 months ago
Planet 9 From Outer Space!
Not content with being the self-proclaimed "Pluto Killer", CalTech professor Mike Brown has now co-authored a paper hypothesizing the existence of, i…
10 years, 7 months ago