Ep. 729: The James Webb Space Telescope

Let’s talk about that giant telescope that’s changing everything. We have been waiting our entire careers to make this episode on the James Webb Space Telescope, AKA the JWST.

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Ep. 554: Big Telescope Controversy in Hawai’i

Ep. 554: Big Telescope Controversy in Hawai’i

This week we’re live at the American Astronomical Society’s 235th meeting in Honolulu, Hawai’i. We learned about new planets, black holes and star formation, but the big issue hanging over the whole conference is the protests and politics over the new Thirty Meter Telescope due for construction on Mauna Kea.

Ep. 553: What To Look Forward To In 2020

Ep. 553: What To Look Forward To In 2020

It’s hard to believe it, but we survived another trip around the Sun. Now it’s time to take the whole journey all over again, but with new news. Let’s take a look at some of the space and astronomy stories we’re looking forward to in 2020.

Ep. 552: Boyajian’s star (and other strange stars)

Ep. 552: Boyajian’s star (and other strange stars)

Huge surveys of the sky are finding more and more planets, stars and galaxies. But they're also turning up strange objects astronomers have never seen before, like Boyajian's star. Today we're going to talk about some unusual objects astronomers have discovered, and...

Ep. 551: Missing Epochs – Observing before the CMBR

Ep. 551: Missing Epochs – Observing before the CMBR

The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation is the earliest moment in the Universe that we can see with our telescopes, just a few hundred thousand years after the Big Bang itself. What will it take for us to be able to fill in the missing gap? To see closer to the beginning of time itself?

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