June brings us the quote “Parade of Planets”…well, sort of…Listen up as I discuss which planets are visible, which aren’t, and when the Moon will pass by them.
Jun 1st: Last Minute Astronomer June 2024
Podcast Archive
May 31st: Carrington 2024
In this episode, we’re taking a closer look at Sunspot complex 3664 and the beautiful chaos that it’s been creating.
May 30th: A Distinguished Career
Dr. Steve Maran (retired from NASA and AAS) shares stories with us from his almost 70 years working, and having fun, in astronomy.
May 29th: There Are Always Possibilities
What’s the matter with antimatter – and will we ever get to Alpha Centauri?
May 28th: JWST Observes a New Type of Brown Dwarf
Imagine a planet that is so far away from us that it takes 40 years for its light to reach us. Now imagine that this planet has not one, but two stars that it orbits around. And finally, imagine that this planet has clouds made of sand particles that change the brightness of its atmosphere wildly as they move in the air.
May 27th: Rogue Planets
Most of the exoplanets we’ve found are around stars, where they belong. But a few have been found free-floating in interstellar space. How do they form and how can we learn more about them?
May 26th: Greg’s Comet & Comet Lemmon
Today Travelers in the Night tell a story about the discovery of P/2018 VN2 (Leonard), a Jupiter family comet whose fate is to become a garden variety main belt asteroid and Comet Lemmon
May 25th: From Dust To Dust
We are joined by Dr. Omima Osman and discuss about cosmic dust as she explains how this dust forms in the death throes of massive stars, how it grows in interstellar space and how it’s then, in turn, destroyed again by the death of stars
May 24th: Massive Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica at Risk of Collapse
A team of scientists collected cores and modeled ice cliff failure and found that Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is melting more quickly than ever and could be at risk of collapse, threatening global coastlines with almost a meter of sea level rise.
May 23rd: Totally Eclipse
This episode it is Jeni and Dustin talking about their experiences of the Great American Eclipse!