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#743: What Else Can We Learn From Gravitational Waves?
Sure, the masses of merging black holes are nice to know, but what else can we learn from gravitational black holes?
#742: Atmospheric Gravity Waves
Gravity Waves … not gravitational waves … move atmospheres and make pretty clouds.
#741: Technosignatures
Pollution will ultimately give away a society.
#740: Sneaky Stars
If you’re an astronomer you depend on accurate observations of stars, but there’s a problem. Stars are sneaky! Changing in size, brightness, color, they hide their chemistry, their age and even their companions from all but the cleverest observers. Stars explode...
#739: Drones
From little Ingenuity to the future Firefly and all our Earth Science fliers, let’s look at the buzzy scientists. Soon there’ll be a helicopter flying on Titan, but there are many other flying robots that’ll be helping us with all our science needs.
#738: Looking ahead to 2025
What can we hope (or dread) to see in 2025? Today we’re gonna talk about the upcoming space stories for 2025 that we’re looking forward to.
#737: Weird Science Stories in 2024
2024 was a strange year! But, for space and astronomy we had some interesting, revolutionary, unsettling and downright weird stories pop up. Today let’s talk about them.
#736: Gift Guide 2024
It’s time for our Holiday Gift Guide, where we suggest ideas for presents for the space fans in your life! What books are we reading? What games are we playing and what telescopes are we admiring?
#735: Albert Einstein
Last week we talked about the Einstein probe. So this week it is only natural that we talk about the man himself, Albert Einstein. He revolutionized the field of physics, played a vital role in the early 20th century and struggled to unite the forces of the Universe...
#734: The Einstein Probe
Another day, another space telescope! Today we’re looking at the newly launched Einstein Probe
#733: Euclid of Alexandria
Let’s look at the Euclid of Alexandria, the father of geometry and his contributions in celestial mechanics and orbital calculations.
#732: The Euclid Telescope
Let’s look at the Euclid Space Telescope..
#731: Neil Gehrels
Last week we talked about the Neil Gerhels Swift Telescope, this week we’ll be talking about the man behind the mission.
#730: The Neil Gehrels Swift Telescope
Let’s look over the long life of the Neil Gehrels Swift Telescope as it watches for the multi-spectral flashes of high energy explosions.
#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.
#728 :Eugene Parker
In our last episode, we talked about the Parker Solar Probe. Today, we talk about the person who inspired the mission
#727: The Parker Solar Probe
The Sun. It’s that ongoing thermonuclear explosion that’s happening right over there. Although the Sun is necessary for life on Earth, we still have questions. So NASA has sent the Parker Solar Probe to visit the Sun, up close to get some questions answered....
#726: What happened during our Summer Hiatus
We’re back from our summer hiatus. Before we left, we gave you a bunch of stories we thought might be important. Now let’s look back and see how our predictions went. And what surprises did happen? Show Notes Evidence of vulcanism on the Moon China's Chang'e 6 mission...
BONUS: June 10 Pre-Show Rant on Starliner, Starship, & more
Starliner S2.1 docking on May 20, 2022 (NASA) Prior to recording their exoplanets episode, Fraser and Pamela discussed their wild week of space flight news and discussed their concerns about the Starliner and StarShip programs. This is particularly timely as we...
BONUS: The Week of Too Much News
In this bonus episode, we bring you behind the scenes audio from our June 10 pre-show discussion about the “far too much news” that occurred the week of June 3, 2024. Check out the original recording on YouTube here. This episode was sponsored by Mint Mobile.
#725: Looking ahead
Normally, Pamela refuses to think about the future. But today, on our final episode before hiatus, she’s throwing out those rules. Here’s what we’re excited about for the future, especially in the next couple of months until we return in September Recorded: 10 June...
#724: Summer Science & SciFi Reads
It’s almost time for our summer hiatus. A time to catch up on all that reading. We’ll give you some book recommendations, and what we’re hoping to read during the summer. https://www.youtube.com/live/LFCW2nCw2-w?feature=shared Show Notes The following books were...
#723: Exoplanets by the Numbers
Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets, revealing entirely new types of worlds that we don’t have in the Solar System. It is enough to start getting a rough sense of what kinds of planets are out there. What’s the big picture? Show Notes Our World in Data...
#722: Weather on Exoplanets
Here’s a familiar question: how’s the weather? We’re familiar with the weather on Earth and telescopes and missions are watching the weather on other planets in the Solar System. But for the first time in history, astronomers can now answer that question for...