How the time flies. It’s been over a year since JWST went operational, with other missions joining the fun. What new insights have we gained about the Universe thanks to these powerful new tools?
Nov 20th: Insights Into the Universe
Podcast Archive
Nov 19th: Planet 9 & Alien Contact
Astronomers are searching the solar system for new planets and Uranus’s orbit suggested Neptune exists. KBO orbits suggest Planet 9 exists. Contacting aliens might be us digging fossils on Mars or radio telescopes picking up a signal.
Nov 18th: The Legend of the Rabbit on the Moon
This is the Story about the rabbit on the moon from Vietnam as told and translated by Luong Ngoc Quynh for the Stars of Asia project in 2009 during International Year of Astronomy.
Nov 17th: Earth Science is Planetary Science
In this episode, we need to take one of our periodic looks at our planet’s science and understand what it means to life as we know it. But we will only look at Earth for the first two segments
Nov 16th: Chris and Shane Observe Together
Today’s Actual Astronomy talk about a recent night where we finally met up to spend some time hanging out under the stars.
Nov 15th: Searching for ET at the Heart of the Milky Way
Until now, radio SETI has primarily dedicated its efforts to the search for continuous signals. A new study sheds light on the remarkable energy efficiency of a train of pulses as a means of interstellar communication across vast distances.
Nov 14th: Exoplanets Are Everywhere
Did you know that the discovery of other planets in orbit around other stars is a very recent one? Only 25 years ago, we had no idea there were any planets in our galaxy besides those in our solar system. Now, not only have we discovered them, but astronomers estimate there are trillions of them. There are so many exoplanets out there that every star in our galaxy could have at least one.
Nov 13th: Mission Roll Call Part 6: The Outer Solar System and Beyond
Finally, we reach the end of our tour through the missions in the Solar System. Out beyond Mars, to Jupiter, the Kuiper Belt and Beyond.
Nov 12th: Greg Scores & Cosmic Campground
Greg Leonard from Catalina Sky Survey team finds an interesting potentially hazardous asteroid and The Cosmic Campground as the last places where one can experience the natural night sky in the lower 48.
Nov 11th: The Siena Galaxy Atlas
Astronomers have long sought to map the night skies that can help scientists spot broad patterns across a population of objects, put new discoveries such as transient events in the context of their surroundings, and identify the best candidates for focused observations. And here’s The Siena Galaxy Atlas Project.