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Quasi Particles, Pluto's Moons, and Cosmic Rays
Episode 381
We kick off 2025 with oddities from quasi particles, to cosmic rays, to the moons of Pluto. What has mass when it moves in one direction and doesn't …
1 year, 7 months ago
Mysterious Dark Comets
Episode 380
We know about extinct comets and active asteroids, but now we've got something in between: dark comets, whose orbits indicate cometary activity, but …
1 year, 8 months ago
Making Big Blobs is Hard
Episode 379
Top quark Jim Cooney explains why making big blobs is hard and how new observations are helping us understand how the universe made big immensely big…
1 year, 8 months ago
Neutrino Fog and the Hunt for Dark Matter
Episode 378
It's a good news bad news story with the detection of the neutrino fog. This signal from solar neutrinos may confound our search for certain dark mat…
1 year, 9 months ago
Not All Supernovae Are Created Equal
Episode 377
If you're speaking English, not Latin, do you really have to say "supernovae" instead of "supernovas"? Also, they are, in some sense, created equally…
1 year, 9 months ago
Is There Another Belt of Comets?
Episode 376
New observations contradict earlier studies about the possibility of another belt of comets orbiting the Sun twice as far away as Pluto. We'll take a…
1 year, 9 months ago
Trojan Asteroids Everywhere
Episode 375
Join Strange and Down quarks for a close look at Trojan asteroids, the forgotten asteroids of the solar system. NASA's Lucy mission is en route to ta…
1 year, 10 months ago
Basin Instinct - Cosmological Structure and Edible Asteroids
Episode 374
We get a tour of our place in the grand cosmological scheme of things with new mapping of the local Basin of Attraction. Spoiler: also Jim's new stag…
1 year, 10 months ago
OG Top Goes to Europa
Episode 373
Original Top Quark Dr. Tracy Becker returns to her old stomping grounds to hang with the Walkabout crew and send Europa Clipper on its way to Jupiter…
1 year, 10 months ago
Back in Black Holes
Episode 372
We've got mini black holes as potential dark matter candidates and monstrous black holes spewing jets to cosmological scales. Who better than Top qua…
1 year, 10 months ago