Episode 185: Did a Supernova Cause a Mass Extinction?, with Brian Fields
Episode 185: Did a Supernova Cause a Mass Extinction?, with Brian Fields
Feature Guest: Brian Fields By now we are all familiar with the theory that an asteroid brought to an end the age of the... Read more
28 Sep 2020
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41mins
Episode 184: The Milky Way's First Fast Radio Burst, with Sandro Mereghetti
Episode 184: The Milky Way's First Fast Radio Burst, with Sandro Mereghetti
Feature Guest: Sandro Mereghetti Fast radio bursts are a new mystery in astronomy. These highly energetic events of unkn... Read more
14 Sep 2020
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41mins
Episode 183: COVID-19 Meets the NASA Space Apps Challenge, with James Slifierz
Episode 183: COVID-19 Meets the NASA Space Apps Challenge, with James Slifierz
Feature Guest: James Slifierz The NASA Space Apps Challenge is a feverish annual hackathon engaging teams of coders, sci... Read more
25 May 2020
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38mins
Episode 182: Planet Nine or Black Hole One, with Jakub Scholtz
Episode 182: Planet Nine or Black Hole One, with Jakub Scholtz
Feature Guest: Jakub Scholtz We’ve long believed that membership in the solar system’s planetary family was limited to t... Read more
11 May 2020
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40mins
Episode 181: Reports of Betelgeuse’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated, with Emily Levesque
Episode 181: Reports of Betelgeuse’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated, with Emily Levesque
Feature Guest: Emily Levesque In December 2019, amateur and professional astronomers held their breath as the red superg... Read more
27 Apr 2020
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41mins
Episode 180: Wormholes through Space and Time, with John Cramer
Episode 180: Wormholes through Space and Time, with John Cramer
Feature Guest: John G. Cramer They are the stuff of science fiction, but wormholes are also the subject of intense scien... Read more
6 Apr 2020
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51mins
Episode 179: Dreams of Floating Cities, with Geoffrey Landis
Episode 179: Dreams of Floating Cities, with Geoffrey Landis
Feature Guest: Geoffrey A. Landis When we think of terraforming, we probably envision turning the Red Planet blue. But M... Read more
2 Mar 2020
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28mins
Episode 178 Sibling Rivalry at the Centre of the Galaxy, with Smadar Naoz
Episode 178 Sibling Rivalry at the Centre of the Galaxy, with Smadar Naoz
Feature Guest: Smadar Naoz We’ve long known that most galaxies contain at their core a supermassive black hole that can ... Read more
3 Feb 2020
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42mins
Episode 177: The Case of the Missing Dark Matter, with Guo Chi
Episode 177: The Case of the Missing Dark Matter, with Guo Chi
Feature Guest: Guo Qi Dark matter vastly overshadows ordinary matter in our universe. Wherever astronomers turn their te... Read more
20 Jan 2020
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33mins
Episode 176: Second Genesis, with Jay Melosh
Episode 176: Second Genesis, with Jay Melosh
Feature Guest: Jay Melosh If we should find creatures crawling around Titan or swimming under the ice sheets of Europa o... Read more
6 Jan 2020
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43mins