Jacinta takes us on a tour of her homeland, into the Australian bush, and chats about pathfinders, precursors and the exciting collaborations between South Africa and Australia!
Mar 23rd: A Trip Down Under
Podcast Archive
Mar 22nd: Stability, Instability, Drama, & How We are Space Stuff
We are star stuff. This phrase serves as a gentle reminder that all the complex atom found their start either in the nuclear core of a star or in the nuclear explosions of a dying star or stars. But, as with so many things, the truth is much more complicated than the meme.
Mar 21st: The Deep Sky Eye Observatory with Tim Doucette
The Actual Astronomy Podcast presents The Deep Sky Eye Observatory with Tim Doucette and talk about his passion for the night sky from the Deep Sky Eye Observatory which he runs as a small independent astronomy business in beautiful Nova Scotia Canada.
Mar 20th: The Mysterious Ocean of Saturn’s Moon, Mimas
Join us for a discussion about Saturn’s moon Mimas that once thought to be a cold, solid body of ice & rock and now appears to harbor a vast global ocean beneath its icy crust at #365DaysOfAstro
Mar 19th: Will Our Universe End in a Big Rip?
How can a “big rip” tear the Universe apart? What does that mean for existence itself? Is it going to happen, and what are we doing to find out? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!
Mar 18th: How Peer Review Fails
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
New planets in nearby red dwarf stars and more about Phaethon asteroids
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.