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The Longest Gamma-Ray Burst Ever Recorded
Season 3 Episode 351
Astronomers have detected GRB 250702B, an extraordinary Gamma‑ray burst that lasted an unprecedented seven hours and erupted three separate times.
Sci…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Time Is Not What You Think: Einstein’s Time Dilation Explained
Season 3 Episode 350
This episode explores the science of time dilation and why time does not pass at the same rate for everyone.
Based on Einstein’s relativity, we examin…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
How One Small Exoplanet Could Reveal the Fate of Alien Worlds
Season 3 Episode 349
Astronomers have discovered an Earth-sized TOI-4616 b orbiting a nearby Red Dwarf. While many rocky planets circle these stars, this world stands out…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Early Warnings From Space: Inside the Vera Rubin Observatory’s Asteroid Hunt
Season 3 Episode 348
Vera C. Rubin Observatory is poised to transform planetary defense. Through its Legacy Survey of Space and Time, scientists expect to detect far more…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Quiet Black Hole Regions May Be Cradles of Life
Season 3 Episode 347
New astronomical research suggests that the center of the Milky Way and distant compact galaxies known as “little red dots” may share a surprisingly …
3 months, 4 weeks ago
The Birth of a Magnetar Inside a Giant Stellar Explosion
Season 3 Episode 346
Astronomers have found the first direct evidence that Magnetars power the universe’s brightest stellar explosions.
By studying a distant Superluminous…
4 months ago
The Violent Cosmic Event That Creates Gold and Platinum
Season 3 Episode 345
Astronomers detected a rare Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 230906A produced by the collision of two Neutron Stars in a distant merging galaxy about 8.5 billion …
4 months ago
The Quantum Telescope: A New Way to See the Universe
Season 3 Episode 344
A new experiment suggests that the future of astronomy may rely on quantum physics. Scientists have shown that Quantum Entanglement can link distant …
4 months ago
The Most Compact Quadruple Star System Ever Found
Season 3 Episode 343
Astronomers have discovered one of the most compact multi-star systems ever observed: TIC 120362137.
This rare 3+1 quadruple system packs four stars i…
4 months ago
The Cosmic Interference Problem: Why Alien Signals Might Look Different
Season 3 Episode 342
A new study from the SETI Institute suggests extraterrestrial signals may be harder to detect than previously thought. Plasma turbulence and stellar …
4 months ago