Today podcast tell a story about galaxies collision and how gravity reshapes galaxies, builds tidal tails, and triggers starbursts.
Aug 28th: Galaxies Don’t Crash, They Remix
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Aug 27th: An Intermediate Mass Black Hole Found in the Milky Way
Astronomers have been searching for mid-weight black holes, and now they’ve found one, right here in the Milky Way.
Aug 26th: A Journey into a Black Hole Collision
Black holes have been largely theoretical until the LIGO observations announced earlier this year. Thanks to those observations, we now have another way to study and observe these amazing celestial objects.
Aug 25th: Getting Around the Solar System
Have you ever wondered what it takes to get a spacecraft off the Earth and into space. And how managers at NASA can actually navigate a spacecraft to another planet?
Aug 24th: Marrakech & Asteroids 2016
Today we have travelers in the Night talk about Moroccan Oukaimeden Sky Survey and asteroid hunting record in 2016
Aug 23rd: Burping Black Holes
Today’s Cosmic Savannah talk to Dr. Eli Kasai about his inspiring journey of establishing Namibia’s active role in the global astrophysics community, along with efforts to engage the public through the mobile planetarium. Also his work on blazars using SALT and the Cherenkov Telescope Array.
Aug 22nd: Stars and Planets May Grow Up Together!
New images taken with the ALMA Observatory show a young proto-stellar disk with the rings and gaps of planetary formation growing together, once again challenging our preconceptions
Aug 21st: Listener Emails
In this episode Actual Astronomy read several listener emails including Observing Saturn, Equipment reports, telescope making, public outreach, a supernova photo and more!
Aug 20th: How Realistic is a Space Elevator?
No more explosive rockets – ride an elevator into orbit and open up the solar system for human exploration. But is that realistic or are there just as many risks with the space elevator?
Aug 19th: How Do Variable Stars, You Know, Vary?
What powers Cepheid variable stars? What about Mira variables and pulsating stars? And are there variable stars that don’t actually vary at all?