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Finding Aliens by Studying Fireflies: Rethinking the Search for ETs
Season 2 Episode 288
Scientists are rethinking the search for extraterrestrial intelligence by studying firefly bioluminescence instead of only looking for human-like rad…
2 months ago
SPHEREx Maps the Entire Sky in 3D Infrared
Season 2 Episode 286
NASA's SPHEREx telescope has created the first complete 3D infrared sky map using 102 wavelengths invisible to human eyes. This revolutionary dataset…
2 months ago
Superkilonova: The Dual Cosmic Explosion
Season 2 Episode 285
A baffling cosmic event, designated AT2025ulz, was detected by LIGO and Virgo and is now considered a candidate for a never-before-seen phenomenon: a…
2 months ago
Mapping the Magellanic Clouds: The 1001MC Stellar Survey
Season 2 Episode 284
This episode explores a new five-year astronomical survey of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds using the 4MOST spectrograph on the VISTA Telescop…
2 months, 1 week ago
James Webb Reveals a Hidden Supermassive Black Hole in the Early Universe
Season 2 Episode 283
New James Webb Space Telescope observations reveal that a seemingly ordinary young galaxy, seen just 800 million years after the Big Bang, hides a ra…
2 months, 1 week ago
Record-Breaking Gamma-Ray Burst Near Light Speed
Season 2 Episode 282
Discover the fastest cosmic explosion ever recorded! We explore GRB 230307A, a gamma-ray burst detected by NASA's Fermi Space Telescope that reached …
2 months, 1 week ago
New Maps Reveal a Wetter Red Planet
Season 2 Episode 281
Mars wasn't always the barren desert we see today. New research has mapped sixteen massive ancient river systems across the red planet for the first …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
How 2025 Interferometry Revealed Stellar Complexity
Season 2 Episode 280
New interferometry observations from the CHARA Array have captured unprecedented real-time images of stellar nova explosions, revealing they're far m…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Ultra-Relativistic Dark Matter: Reviving a 50-Year-Old Theory
Season 2 Episode 279
Physicists Stephen Henrich and Keith Olive are breathing new life into a dark matter theory abandoned in the 1970s. Their "ultra-relativistic freeze-…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Martian Lightning: Confirmation and Consequences
Season 2 Episode 279
This episode reveals a groundbreaking scientific announcement: electric discharges occur on Mars. Long theorized, this phenomenon was accidentally co…
2 months, 2 weeks ago