Walkabout the Galaxy

Walkabout the Galaxy

174 episodes

An irreverent and informative tour of the latest, greatest, and most interesting discoveries in astronomy.

Podcasts

Globular Clusters and Life in Enceladus

Published: Dec. 21, 2023, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 30 seconds

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Pluto Cryovolcano and a Cosmological Supervoid

Published: Dec. 13, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 52 seconds

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Mysterious Cosmic Ray and Martian Airglow

Published: Dec. 6, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 36 seconds

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Ethical Dilemmas in Space Exploration

Published: Nov. 22, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 29 seconds

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The Origin of Supermassive Black Holes

Published: Nov. 15, 2023, 1:36 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 7 seconds

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Dinky and the S8 Tension

Published: Nov. 8, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 1 second

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The Surprising Interiors of Mars and Venus

Published: Nov. 1, 2023, 1:40 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 10 seconds

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Detecting ETs and Intergalactic Baryons

Published: Oct. 25, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 20 seconds

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Neutron Star Quakes and the Streaming Instability

Published: Oct. 18, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 25 seconds

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Pangaea Ultima, Antimatter Gravity, and the Evection Resonance

Published: Oct. 4, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 21 seconds

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Short Take: Asteroid Sample and Dark Matter Hopes

Published: Sept. 27, 2023, 1:26 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 22 seconds

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Trouble in the Universe: El Gordo and Dinky

Published: Sept. 20, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 56 seconds

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Ho'oleilana and Weird Spots on Mercury

Published: Sept. 13, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 41 seconds

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Water in the Solar System - Dragoncon 2023

Published: Sept. 7, 2023, 8:27 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 15 seconds

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Diamonds, Granite, and Hubble Tension

Published: Aug. 30, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 44 seconds

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The Sun Bounces Gamma Rays and a Muon Surprise

Published: Aug. 16, 2023, 4:08 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 21 seconds

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Rogue Planets Galore and the Age of the Universe

Published: Aug. 9, 2023, 2:57 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 3 seconds

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Dark Stars and Water in Hot Places

Published: Aug. 2, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 55 seconds

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X-Rays from Mercury and a Different Kind of Gravitational Hole

Published: July 26, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 29 seconds

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The Rumble in the Universe

Published: July 12, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 43 seconds

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All Things Dark: Matter, Energy, and More

Published: June 28, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 14 seconds

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Earth's Pebble Accretion and the Boring Billion

Published: June 21, 2023, 2:57 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 30 seconds

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Supernovae Near and Far

Published: June 14, 2023, 6:48 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 32 seconds

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Is the Universe Left or Right-Handed?

Published: May 31, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 40 seconds

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Scary Things That Can Happen To Planets

Published: May 24, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 33 seconds

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Crazy Rings, Watery Moons, and Ancient Black Holes

Published: May 10, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 39 seconds

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The Impact of Impacts on Water on Mars

Published: April 26, 2023, 1:54 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 37 seconds

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Live at Nerd Nite with the Moon, JUICE, and M87 Black Hole

Published: April 19, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 31 seconds

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MegaCon 2023 and JWST

Published: April 5, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 42 seconds

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Oumuamua Explained and Dark Matter Near Black Holes

Published: March 29, 2023, 4:57 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 52 seconds

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Active Volcanism on Venus!

Published: March 22, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 24 seconds

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It's About Time!

Published: March 15, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 54 seconds

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Sweet Europa Tail

Published: March 8, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 4 seconds

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Runaway Black Holes and Certified Organic Asteroids

Published: March 2, 2023, 12:37 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 35 seconds

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Whacky Water and Weird Rings

Published: Feb. 15, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 3 seconds

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The Trouble with Neutrinos and Other Mysteries

Published: Feb. 1, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 52 seconds

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The Tiniest Wormhole

Published: Jan. 25, 2023, 2:01 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 55 seconds

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The Super Earth Assembly Line

Published: Jan. 18, 2023, 1:37 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 51 seconds

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On Top of Nuclear Fusion

Published: Jan. 11, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 32 seconds

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All About STEVE and GRBs

Published: Dec. 14, 2022, 11 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 38 seconds

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Trojans and Axions

Published: Dec. 7, 2022, 11 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 19 seconds

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Up, Up, and Away

Published: Nov. 23, 2022, 11 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 46 seconds

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Chasing Geotail and Martian Impacts

Published: Nov. 2, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 16 seconds

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Astroquarks 300!

Published: Oct. 26, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 4 seconds

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Life on Mars Killed Life on Mars

Published: Oct. 19, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 35 seconds

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Pop III!

Published: Oct. 12, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 14 seconds

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Payback for Chicxulub!

Published: Sept. 28, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 4 seconds

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Boom: DART, Volcanoes, and Supernovae

Published: Sept. 21, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 48 seconds

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DragonCon 2022: To the Moon with Artemis and More

Published: Sept. 6, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 53 seconds

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Water Worlds at Distant Suns

Published: Aug. 31, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 57 seconds

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Ancient Astronomers and Ancient Lunar Impacts

Published: Aug. 24, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 46 seconds

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Strange Lightning and the Youngest Planet

Published: Aug. 17, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 13 seconds

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Is There Something Wrong with the Standard Model?

Published: Aug. 10, 2022, 2:35 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 27 seconds

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The Edges of Space, the Solar System, and the Universe

Published: Aug. 3, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 13 seconds

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JWST and the Circle of Life of Stars

Published: July 29, 2022, 12:16 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 24 seconds

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Fly Me to the Moon Again and Again

Published: July 7, 2022, 2:25 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 2 seconds

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Two Odd Balls: Charon and Arrokoth

Published: June 29, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 26 seconds

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Noxious Fumes from Stars and Moons

Published: June 22, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 27 seconds

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The Galactic Gamma Ray Background from Pulsars

Published: June 15, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 36 seconds

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Space Haboobs and Martian Haboobs

Published: June 1, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 36 seconds

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Yes MegaCon There IS a Black Hole

Published: May 25, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 32 seconds

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Lunar Plants and Micronovae

Published: May 18, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 56 seconds

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Gravitational Redshift and Sci-Fi Body and Time Shifts

Published: May 11, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 54 seconds

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Mapping the Early Universe in HD

Published: May 4, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 45 seconds

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Planetary Decadal Survey with Almost no Uranus Jokes

Published: April 27, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 27 seconds

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The Cosmic Significance of Tiny Things

Published: April 20, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 42 seconds

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The Sounds of Mars and the Lights of the Earliest Stars

Published: April 6, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 31 seconds

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Ultralight Dark Matter

Published: March 23, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 58 seconds

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All the Light in the Universe

Published: March 16, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 58 seconds

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When Galaxy Clusters Collide

Published: March 9, 2022, 11 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 3 seconds

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How Smart Is Your Planet?

Published: March 2, 2022, 11 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 19 seconds

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Psyche-ology and Generally Crazy Relativity

Published: Feb. 23, 2022, 11 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 9 seconds

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Hot Fusion and Crashing Satellites

Published: Feb. 16, 2022, 11 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 47 seconds

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A Bouncy Universe

Published: Feb. 9, 2022, 11 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 37 seconds

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IWOW

Published: Feb. 2, 2022, 11 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 38 seconds

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The Local Solar Bubble and Another Dusty Star

Published: Jan. 19, 2022, 11 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 15 seconds

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Lagrange Points Everywhere

Published: Jan. 12, 2022, 11 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 50 seconds

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Q-Balls!

Published: Dec. 22, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 34 seconds

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Eggshell Planets and the Inexorable Growth of Black Holes

Published: Dec. 15, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 46 seconds

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JWST and the Era of Reionization

Published: Dec. 8, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 55 seconds

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Strange Atoms and Jupiter's Deep Atmosphere

Published: Nov. 24, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 45 seconds

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Perpendicular Planets and a Chip Off the Old Moon

Published: Nov. 17, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 40 seconds

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Galactic Protoclusters and the Heat of Information

Published: Nov. 10, 2021, 2:35 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 20 seconds

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Sterile Neutrinos and True Polar Wander

Published: Nov. 3, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 27 seconds

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A World That's Out Of This Galaxy

Published: Oct. 27, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 50 seconds

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Captain Kirk Goes to Space and Other Oddities

Published: Oct. 20, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 23 seconds

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Binaries Galore

Published: Oct. 13, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 4 seconds

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Centaurs and Rocky Clouds

Published: Oct. 6, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 4 seconds

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The Psychohistory of Astroquarks

Published: Sept. 29, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 27 seconds

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Taking the Measure of the Universe with Quasars

Published: Sept. 22, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 43 seconds

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The Mind Blowing Wave Particle Duality of Light

Published: Sept. 15, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 4 seconds

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Odd Galaxies and Odder Planets

Published: Sept. 9, 2021, 1:04 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 44 seconds

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Hycean Worlds and Nudging Asteroids

Published: Sept. 2, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 52 seconds

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Saturn's Chewy Center and the Milky Way's Broken Arm

Published: Aug. 25, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 8 seconds

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The Missing Astroquark

Published: Aug. 18, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 3 seconds

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Pairs of Bosons, Photons, and Asteroids

Published: Aug. 11, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 32 seconds

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Exomoons and Inside Mars

Published: July 28, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 13 seconds

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The Cosmological Lithium Problem

Published: July 21, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 47 seconds

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Rogue Planets, Gravitational Waves, and Life in Enceladus

Published: July 14, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 51 seconds

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Things that Blow. And Clocks.

Published: July 7, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 34 seconds

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Stars That Blink

Published: June 23, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 10 seconds

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The Cosmological Principle

Published: June 16, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 26 seconds

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Back to Venus with Several Rants

Published: June 8, 2021, 11:46 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 8 seconds

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How the Universe has Aged

Published: June 2, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 6 seconds

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Of Cosmic Rays and Neptune's Wandering Ways

Published: May 26, 2021, 7:43 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 51 seconds

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Ten Things I Hate About Neutrinos

Published: May 19, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 22 seconds

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Surprises at the Centers of Things

Published: May 12, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 16 seconds

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A Whirl of Neutron Stars

Published: April 28, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 48 seconds

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There Are Five Lights!

Published: April 21, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 8 seconds

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The Extra Glow at the Heart of the Milky Way

Published: April 14, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 37 seconds

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You Can't Be Darth Serious

Published: March 31, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 25 seconds

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The Fifth Element

Published: March 24, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 22 seconds

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Space The Final Frontier

Published: March 17, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 52 seconds

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Warp Drive!

Published: March 10, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 22 seconds

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Deep Dive Into a Globular Cluster

Published: March 3, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 36 seconds

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If a Spacecraft Lands on an Empty Planet, Does it Make a Sound?

Published: Feb. 24, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 8 seconds

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Hairy Black Holes

Published: Feb. 17, 2021, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 52 seconds

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The Surprising Science of Space Dirt

Published: Feb. 10, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 12 seconds

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Perseverance, Cache Me While You Can!

Published: Feb. 3, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 12 seconds

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The Dark and Distant Rumbles of Spacetime

Published: Jan. 27, 2021, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 9 seconds

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Ancient Planets and Bumblebee Gravity

Published: Jan. 19, 2021, 5:10 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 10 seconds

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Meet Pillownaut Heather Archuletta

Published: Jan. 13, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 45 seconds

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It's Not That Dark After All

Published: Dec. 21, 2020, noon
Duration: 43 minutes 10 seconds

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Taking the Measure of the Milky Way

Published: Dec. 9, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 8 seconds

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Something Old, Something Blue

Published: Nov. 25, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 40 seconds

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The Birth of a Magnetar

Published: Nov. 18, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 4 seconds

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We Saw a Magnetar Burp!

Published: Nov. 11, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 13 seconds

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OMG The Moon!

Published: Nov. 4, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 41 seconds

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Asteroid Bennu Gets TAGged!

Published: Oct. 24, 2020, 9:13 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 59 seconds

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The Airing of Grievances!

Published: Oct. 14, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 52 seconds

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Jerk, Snap, Crackle, Pop

Published: Oct. 7, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 5 seconds

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It's a Small Waterworld

Published: Sept. 30, 2020, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 15 seconds

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A Deep Dive into Venus's Atmosphere

Published: Sept. 23, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 1 second

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Mary Robinette Kowal

Published: Sept. 16, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 2 seconds

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Big Black Holes and Tiny Water Worlds

Published: Sept. 9, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 50 seconds

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Pressures Great and Small

Published: Sept. 2, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 48 seconds

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Ceres is a Planet with Water!

Published: Aug. 26, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 44 seconds

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The One With All The Fields

Published: Aug. 12, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 23 seconds

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Strange Neutrinos and the Bucket Brigade

Published: Aug. 5, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 22 seconds

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One Mystery Solved Another Mystery Deepens

Published: July 22, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 41 seconds

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The Great Wall of Galaxies

Published: July 15, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 18 seconds

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Things That Go Bump in the Dark

Published: July 1, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 26 seconds

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The 200th One

Published: June 24, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 30 seconds

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Of Magnetars and Mars

Published: June 10, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 6 seconds

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Planet Formation Caught in the Act

Published: June 3, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 33 seconds

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The Universe May Be Empty But We Are Together

Published: May 20, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 19 seconds

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A Backyard Black Hole

Published: May 13, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 6 seconds

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Is The Sun a Sunlike Star

Published: May 6, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 3 seconds

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The Quark with a Fork

Published: April 30, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 9 seconds

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When You Wish Upon a Neutrino

Published: April 22, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 11 seconds

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Psyche Out: Metal Asteroids and an Irregular Universe

Published: April 15, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 19 seconds

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Alien Life and Star Trek Diseases

Published: April 7, 2020, 1:33 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 18 seconds

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The Importance of Being Gassy

Published: March 29, 2020, 9:36 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 50 seconds

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A Pulsating Star and a Salty Asteroid

Published: March 23, 2020, 7:32 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 17 seconds

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It's That Time of the Solar Cycle

Published: March 11, 2020, 3:59 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 37 seconds

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Gravitational Waves Rumbling Through the Universe

Published: March 2, 2020, 12:06 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 5 seconds

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All The Galaxy's a Stage And We Are Merely Astroquarks

Published: Feb. 21, 2020, 9:16 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 31 seconds

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Things That Go Burst in the Night

Published: Feb. 16, 2020, 6:56 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 2 seconds

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Sexaquark!

Published: Feb. 9, 2020, 3:39 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 34 seconds

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The Mysterious Case of the Dragging Frame

Published: Feb. 2, 2020, 3:49 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 40 seconds

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The Asteroid versus the Volcanoes

Published: Jan. 19, 2020, 10:33 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 9 seconds

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Lucy, TESS, and the Dark Energy Mess

Published: Jan. 14, 2020, 3 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 1 second

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Hashtag Fundamental

Published: Jan. 6, 2020, 11:32 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 13 seconds

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Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse

Published: Dec. 31, 2019, 3:28 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 45 seconds

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Hot Blobs and Magnetic Spots

Published: Dec. 22, 2019, 4:32 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 32 seconds

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Jim the Asteroid Licker

Published: Dec. 8, 2019, 9:09 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 44 seconds

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Would You Like Your Chunky Space with a Swirl?

Published: Nov. 25, 2019, 1:04 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 11 seconds

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Antimatter and Wormholes

Published: Nov. 17, 2019, 4:40 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 59 seconds

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When a Giant Black Hole Blows a Lot of Gas

Published: Nov. 11, 2019, 3:57 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 24 seconds

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Astroquark Soup

Published: Nov. 3, 2019, 4:38 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 49 seconds

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The Vibration Dance and the Mole Shimmy

Published: Oct. 23, 2019, 7:33 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 45 seconds

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Bananas About Brown Dwarfs

Published: Oct. 15, 2019, 12:58 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 6 seconds

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Lost in Space: Rogue Planets and the Intergalactic Web

Published: Oct. 5, 2019, 5:27 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 7 seconds

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I've Got My Eyeball Planet on You

Published: Sept. 29, 2019, 3:54 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 20 seconds

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The One From Geneva

Published: Sept. 22, 2019, 9:47 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 8 seconds

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Moon Water and Galaxy Bubbles

Published: Sept. 8, 2019, 9:11 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 38 seconds

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The Podcast of Dorian Hurricane

Published: Aug. 30, 2019, 2:07 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 58 seconds

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Starforker

Published: Aug. 24, 2019, 7:25 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 50 seconds

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Will the Sun Burp When it Eats the Earth?

Published: Aug. 14, 2019, 4:42 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 39 seconds

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When Light Climbs Out of a Hole

Published: July 30, 2019, 2:09 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 39 seconds

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Where Silence Has Lease

Published: July 23, 2019, 2:46 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 36 seconds

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The Black Hole Middle Class

Published: July 16, 2019, 2:27 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 10 seconds

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Dragonfly Me to the Moon of Saturn

Published: July 3, 2019, 11:20 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 40 seconds

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Left and Right in the Universe

Published: June 23, 2019, 11:18 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 4 seconds

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The Universe is Running Hot and Cold

Published: June 12, 2019, 7:11 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 1 second

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Forbidden Planets

Published: June 4, 2019, 2 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 54 seconds

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All About Bob

Published: May 30, 2019, 6:59 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 40 seconds

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Moon Quakes and Venus Shakes

Published: May 19, 2019, 7:57 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 33 seconds

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Impacts Large and Small and Very Large

Published: May 6, 2019, 1:43 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 38 seconds

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Is Mars Farting or Burping?

Published: April 21, 2019, 1:39 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 48 seconds

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I Can See Your Black Hole From Here

Published: April 13, 2019, 1:31 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 59 seconds

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There are Dark Forces at Work in the Universe

Published: April 1, 2019, 3:22 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 3 seconds

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Bennu is Puking Asteroid Pebbles

Published: March 24, 2019, 10:38 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 17 seconds

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Too Early to the Party: Trek, The Orville, and Aliens

Published: March 12, 2019, 2:34 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 51 seconds

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The One with Joe Haldeman

Published: March 2, 2019, 10:28 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 14 seconds

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Are You Positive That's North?

Published: Feb. 14, 2019, 11:59 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 2 seconds

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To Seek Out and Explore

Published: Feb. 7, 2019, 3:10 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 31 seconds

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Galaxy, Right Ahead!

Published: Jan. 21, 2019, 3:57 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 56 seconds

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The Year of the Astroquark

Published: Jan. 14, 2019, 10:58 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 22 seconds

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2018 Year in Review with Top Quark Trivia

Published: Dec. 24, 2018, 6:16 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 35 seconds

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Jim Goes Off on Fahrenheit

Published: Dec. 9, 2018, 4:31 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 33 seconds

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Dark Matter Hurricane

Published: Nov. 30, 2018, 2:03 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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It's All About U

Published: Nov. 17, 2018, 3:52 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 19 seconds

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Alien Sex

Published: Nov. 4, 2018, 8:28 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 30 seconds

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Fireballs and Penitentes

Published: Oct. 27, 2018, 8:28 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 25 seconds

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Where No Podcast Except This One Has Gone Before

Published: Oct. 20, 2018, 2:52 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 40 seconds

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Of Goblins and Planets

Published: Oct. 12, 2018, 6:36 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 28 seconds

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The Big Falcon Episode

Published: Sept. 28, 2018, 5:39 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 41 seconds

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An Exthwartation of Quarks, or Jupiter's Magnetic Nubbin

Published: Sept. 20, 2018, 2:48 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 2 seconds

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The One That Should Have Been Sponsored by Starburst

Published: Sept. 7, 2018, 11:33 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 51 seconds

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When the Moon Hits Your Eye, You Might Get a Little Wet

Published: Aug. 28, 2018, 6:36 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes

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Really Real Actual Water IN Mars. Probably.

Published: Aug. 11, 2018, 7:16 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 54 seconds

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The Little Neutrino That Could

Published: July 27, 2018, 4:49 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 32 seconds

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What Goes Around Comes Around

Published: July 16, 2018, 5:12 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 19 seconds

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Wouldn't You Like to Hayabusa Too?

Published: June 30, 2018, 7:29 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 56 seconds

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USA to NASA: Save Our Planet!

Published: June 18, 2018, 7:54 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 47 seconds

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Won't You Be My Neighbor Universe?

Published: June 7, 2018, 6:44 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 5 seconds

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The Interstellar Interloper and the Ravenous Black Hole

Published: May 28, 2018, 4:34 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 25 seconds

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Does Mars Have a Chewy Center?

Published: May 13, 2018, 12:37 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 10 seconds

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Chasing New Horizons with David Grinspoon

Published: May 1, 2018, 2:19 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 25 seconds

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Danger Astroquarks!

Published: April 14, 2018, 1 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 39 seconds

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I Think I Stepped in Some Dark Matter

Published: April 3, 2018, 1:54 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 34 seconds

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For Stephen Hawking

Published: March 28, 2018, 9:20 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 54 seconds

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Magnetic Ink Blot Test in Space

Published: March 11, 2018, 5:54 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 56 seconds

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Print Me a Space Base, Please

Published: March 1, 2018, 1:30 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 17 seconds

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The One Sponsored by Space Sex

Published: Feb. 20, 2018, 1:51 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 31 seconds

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I Could Swear I Left My Satellite in Orbit!

Published: Feb. 11, 2018, 2:12 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 54 seconds

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The Old Stars Tell Tales

Published: Feb. 3, 2018, 1:40 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 43 seconds

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The One About Bunburra Rockhole

Published: Jan. 23, 2018, 2:14 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 24 seconds

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A Very Low Rumble in Space

Published: Jan. 8, 2018, 3:46 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 54 seconds

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2017 - A Great Year for Space

Published: Dec. 28, 2017, 2:22 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 24 seconds

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Antimatter from your Local Thunderstorm

Published: Dec. 11, 2017, 11:26 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 5 seconds

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Fly Me To The Moon (of Saturn!)

Published: Nov. 30, 2017, 7:31 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 27 seconds

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Kronos the Planet Eater

Published: Nov. 18, 2017, 2:41 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 10 seconds

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Rogue Asteroid!

Published: Nov. 8, 2017, 4:12 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 10 seconds

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To Kilonova

Published: Nov. 1, 2017, 11:53 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 40 seconds

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I Left My Communicator on Sigma Iotia!

Published: Oct. 22, 2017, 3:15 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 52 seconds

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SOFIA, Nobel and Kuiper - What's in a Name?

Published: Oct. 10, 2017, 3 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 28 seconds

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OSIRIS-REx Gets the Gravity Assist and Scores!

Published: Oct. 4, 2017, 7:43 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 14 seconds

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To Be, Cassini, Or Not To Be

Published: Sept. 27, 2017, 2:37 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 18 seconds

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Florence and the LIGO Machine

Published: Sept. 17, 2017, 1:37 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 5 seconds

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Are Those Diamonds on Uranus?

Published: Sept. 7, 2017, 1:52 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 7 seconds

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Of Eclipses and Starspots

Published: Aug. 31, 2017, 1:32 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 19 seconds

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Of Zombies, Comets and Kilograms

Published: Aug. 17, 2017, 4:49 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 57 seconds

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Cold and Hard, not Warm and Fuzzy

Published: Aug. 10, 2017, 1:47 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 11 seconds

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Going Rogue!

Published: July 30, 2017, 7:38 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 14 seconds

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Teleport Me to the Great Red Spot!

Published: July 21, 2017, 1:36 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 16 seconds

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Where No One Has Gone Before

Published: July 9, 2017, 3:06 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 4 seconds

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Is Planet 9 Lost in Space?

Published: June 28, 2017, 2:02 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 6 seconds

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Leggo my LIGO!

Published: June 21, 2017, 1:15 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 24 seconds

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Uranus Gets Bedazzled!

Published: June 3, 2017, 9:21 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 31 seconds

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Is That Inflation Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?

Published: May 26, 2017, 2:54 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 48 seconds

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Juno What I Mean!

Published: May 17, 2017, 2:02 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 5 seconds

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The Solar System is a Bubble in Space

Published: May 10, 2017, 12:55 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 7 seconds

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The Grand Finale is Finale Here

Published: April 28, 2017, 1:16 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 50 seconds

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Enceladus is a Little Bit Gassy!

Published: April 15, 2017, 8:06 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 43 seconds

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That's Quite a Hadron You've Got There!

Published: April 5, 2017, 2:17 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 58 seconds

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The Great Black Hole Escape

Published: March 27, 2017, 1:56 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 30 seconds

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Space Dust Keeps Falling on my Head

Published: March 19, 2017, 8:50 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 25 seconds

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The One About Patrick Stewart

Published: March 12, 2017, 10:23 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 19 seconds

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Strange New Worlds

Published: Feb. 28, 2017, 5:50 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 25 seconds

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White Dwarfs and Planetary Nebulae

Published: Feb. 17, 2017, 5:37 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 41 seconds

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Stripey Buggers

Published: Feb. 5, 2017, 3:43 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 16 seconds

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A Space Odyssey

Published: Jan. 30, 2017, 1:24 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 21 seconds

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The Hottest Year in a Row!

Published: Jan. 23, 2017, 9:37 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 18 seconds

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Walk About the Great Big Group of Stars

Published: Jan. 11, 2017, 10:12 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 19 seconds

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The Fartological Cycle

Published: Dec. 4, 2016, 8:41 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 26 seconds

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Three Quarks for JJ Abrams!

Published: Nov. 18, 2016, 3:09 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 11 seconds

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I Dub Thee Egotron

Published: Oct. 29, 2016, 7:23 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 37 seconds

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To Boldly Go!

Published: Sept. 22, 2016, 12:28 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 17 seconds

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Extraterrestrials: Are They a Thing Yet?

Published: Sept. 6, 2016, 2:04 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 33 seconds

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StarzaniTrekWars!

Published: Aug. 16, 2016, 4:09 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 16 seconds

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For The World Is Not Hollow

Published: July 29, 2016, 2:38 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 21 seconds

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The Sun Needs a Red Corvette

Published: July 9, 2016, 10 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 36 seconds

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Earth's Mini-Stalker

Published: July 1, 2016, 2:26 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 26 seconds

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Black Holes: What Goes In Might Come Out

Published: June 17, 2016, 7:38 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 15 seconds

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Watching Supernovae with H2O

Published: May 28, 2016, 12:02 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 42 seconds

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Take Me to Mars (and Back Again!)

Published: May 16, 2016, 7:33 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 59 seconds

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Supernova Breakout!

Published: April 4, 2016, 1:16 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 11 seconds

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Nice Model Not So Nice

Published: March 12, 2016, 6:14 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 18 seconds

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The Babiest Galaxy

Published: March 6, 2016, 4:44 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 5 seconds

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Attack of the Gravitational Wave

Published: Feb. 18, 2016, 2:23 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 54 seconds

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Planet 9 From Outer Space!

Published: Jan. 23, 2016, 7:49 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 4 seconds

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El Nino and the Price of Anchovies

Published: Jan. 13, 2016, 1:11 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 26 seconds

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Exploring the Kuiper Belt with Alan Stern

Published: Dec. 17, 2015, 5:14 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 18 seconds

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The Mystery of Mars' Missing Air

Published: Nov. 29, 2015, 4:09 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 53 seconds

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