You’ve probably heard that the best kind of science is peer-reviewed research published in a prestigious journal. But peer review has problems of its own. We’ll talk about that today.
Mar 17th: Cool Star Homes & Shooting Star’s Daddy
Mar 16th: Interview with Charlie Bolden re: Black History Month
Former NASA Astronaut & NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden discusses his growing up as an African American in the segregated US South, & his and other African American’s experiences with and accomplishments to the US Space Program
Mar 15th: Early Black Holes Formed Before Stars?
We thought stellar mass black holes came from stars and that there might have been tiny primordial black holes that evaporated away, but that was it. Closed case. Black holes formed with all the normal structures we experience today. Except that now, JWST’s observations require us to find a way to accelerate the formation of those structures, and one way to do that is to seed the universe with black holes.
Mar 14th: Wet Moons and Tippy Landers
This month @AwesomeAstroPod investigate sub surface oceans on the moons of the solar system, smoking stars, distant blackholes, oversized structures and of course tippy over lunar landers.
Mar 13th: The COSMIC Project at the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array
In a groundbreaking cosmic quest, the COSMIC project at the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) is expanding the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). More about this project on today’s #365DaysOfAstro podcast
Mar 12th: How Do We Find Exoplanets?
What are the best ways to see planets around other stars? One can imagine that it is not easy. This episode looks at ways astronomers find exoplanets.
Mar 11th: NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC)
NASA works on many missions using tried and true technology, but they also invest in creative ideas that could drive the future of space exploration. It’s called NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts or NIAC.
Mar 10th: Trans Neptunian & Gliding to Space
Does 2016 EJ203 a TNO object? And lets learn more about polar vortex winds and the stratospheric polar night jet wind.
Mar 9th: IGRINS-2
Gemini North, one half of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, is now peering deeper into the dusty dwellings of young stars with its new IGRINS-2 instrument