Podcast Archive
Jan 16th: Listener Emails and Christmas Presents
Jan 15th: Jean Pierre Grootaerd
Jean-Pierre builds mounts for donated telescopes for education in developing countries. He also partners with the International Astronomical Union to gift telescopes that inspire students worldwide. Today we are going to follow the journey of telescopes from Belgium to classrooms around the world, sparking curiosity and wonder
Jan 14th: TESS’s Breakthrough Discovery of Long-Period Exoplanets TOI 4600 b and c
Human beings have discovered over five thousand five hundred exoplanets. Recent observations from TESS found exoplanet with an orbit of 82 days and another measured in hundreds of days.
Jan 13th: Drones!
From little Ingenuity to the future Firefly and all our Earth Science fliers, let’s look at the buzzy scientists. Soon there’ll be a helicopter flying on Titan, but there are many other flying robots that’ll be helping us with all our science needs
Jan 12th: 3 Close Approaches & Naming Asteroids and Comets
Today’s Traveling in the Sky tells story about three small space rocks passed through the Earth-Moon system during a six hour period
Jan 11th: The Fastest Feeding Black Hole
Join us on today’s podcast at #365DaysOfAstro as NOIRLab discuss about the discovery of LID-568, a black hole that is feeding at 40 times the theoretical limit.
Jan 10th: End-Permian Extinction Lasted 10X Longer on Land Than in Water
The biggest mass extinction event on Earth occurred at the end of the Permian period. Now, scientists have found that the terrestrial portion of the event lasted nearly ten times as long as the ocean version.
Jan 9th: Listen to the Universe
NASA is famous for beautiful space images, but did you know you can listen to them? Lets go behind the scenes with the team that creates “sonifications.
Jan 8th: Christmas Panto!
It’s time for @AwesomeAstroPod Christmas Panto. This year we have Butch and Suni hijack the ISS. Also space news from 2024 and what to expect in 2025.