How do fundamental constants appear in physics? Why are they so important? Why do we care where they come from?
Jun 3rd: Where Do the Constants of Nature Come From? Part 1
Podcast Archive
Jun 2nd: Non-Roving Rovers
As we explore more surfaces and more complex surfaces throughout the solar system, mission teams are designing robot explorers that don’t sit still and also don’t rove. In this episode, we’re going to take a look at the new technologies that are allowing technology to get around.
Jun 1st: See Comets & Weird Centaur
2017 (was) a good year to view comets with your unaided eye or a pair of binoculars and the discovery of another centaur, 2016 WM48.
May 31st: Could This Be One of the Strangest Planets Ever Found?
Recently, a team of astronomers found a new exoplanet, called 2M1510 (AB) b, that really surprised them. This new exoplanet is special — its orbit looks more like a Ferris wheel!
May 30th: A Failing Look at Earth, a First Look at Other Worlds
In this week’s closer look we are going to look at the earth-facing missions that are getting dragged down by our atmosphere and will be forcibly retired by physics in the next few years, again with no replacements in the works
May 29th: Reflections
Cheap Astronomy becomes self-absorbed and have selfies in space and reflects on a hypothesis Is Hawking Radiation real?
May 28th: Atiyah Alhasadi
Today’s Big Impact Astronomy talk to Atiyah Alhasadi about his work in astronomy education in Lybia
May 27th: Biosignatures: The Search for Life Beyond Earth
The search for life ia about finding out if a planet located in habitable zone and more other information to learn if life may be there.
May 26th: CubeSats
Computers are getting smaller, faster and more capable, which has enabled an entirely mew class of satellites: CubeSats.
May 25th: Spiral Comet & Comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchoś)
Today’s Travelers in the night tell a story about Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks comes near the Sun & Kacper Wierzchoś comet discovery