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Black Hole Spindown Chirp and a 9-Day Geologic Rumble
Episode 371
Gravitational waves may provide a new way to observe supernovae in our own Milky Way galaxy and determine when they produce black holes and when they…
1 year, 11 months ago
Recent Lunar Volcanic Activity and the Metallicity Cliff
Episode 370
Tiny samples brought back from the Moon hint at surprisingly recent volcanic activity. What's up with that?! Elsewhere in the galaxy, a detailed stud…
1 year, 11 months ago
Adventures in Space the Cady Way
Episode 369
The Astroquarks are joined by former NASA astronaut, PhD Chemist, and retired USAF Colonel Cady Coleman at Dragon Con 2024 for a wide ranging discuss…
1 year, 11 months ago
Ocean World Mimas and the JUICE Slingshot
Episode 368
Recent (astronomically speaking, of course!) perturbations to Mimas's orbit may be the explanation for the surprising presence of a global subsurface…
2 years ago
Barney the Dinosaur Killer from Outer Space and Water Inside Mars
Episode 367
New research shows that the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago formed in the colder, more distant reaches of the solar syst…
2 years ago
The Fermi Paradox - Are We Truly Alone?
Episode 366
When Frank Drake created his famous eponymous equation to estimate the number of advanced communicative civilizations in the Milky Way, we had little…
2 years ago
Chemical Whispers of Life on Mars
Episode 365
The astroquarks assemble for their 365th episode, about 10 years after their first, with a look at a canceled mission to the Moon and tantalizing obs…
2 years ago
Lunar Caves for Future Habitation
Episode 364
In this light episode of Walkabout the Galaxy, Josh and Audrey discuss the first confirmation of open spaces in lava tubes connected to lunar pits on…
2 years, 1 month ago
Dark Matter, Deuterons, and a Mixed-Up Protoplanetary Disk
Episode 363
You'll be amazed at how much we can learn from iron meteorites. Who would have guessed that analysis of the compositions of these humble metallic rem…
2 years, 1 month ago
Cygnus X-3 and a Naked-Eye Nova
Episode 362
The clock is ticking on T Coronae Borealis which seems primed to undergo a nova explosion this summer. That will make this otherwise faint star as br…
2 years, 2 months ago