What are some wild stories behind names in astronomy and physics? How did we get the jargon words that we did? What are some of the funniest names?
Aug 15th: What are the Weirdest Names in Astronomy?
Podcast Archive
Aug 14th: Dangerous Solar Flares, Higgs Boson Insights, and Light Speed Flashlights
Can our Sun generate a solar flare that would wipe out life on Earth? Has the Large Hadron Collider answered any questions about the Higgs boson? And what would happen if you shined your flashlight out the front window of a spaceship going almost the speed of light?
Aug 13th: Last One & Martian Storms
A huge Earth approaching asteroid is discovered right before the 2018 monsoon rains settled into the American Southwest and as Earth and Mars moved closer together, a dust storm engulfed most of the red planet making it impossible to see its surface features.
Aug 12th: Backyard Worlds: Cool Neighbors
Backyard Worlds Cool Neighbors, enlists the public to help identify brown dwarfs from data taken by the NASA Wide Field Infrared Explorer (WISE) satellite. Today podcast will talk about this new project and how the public can help find these elusive brown dwarfs.
Aug 11th: Space Science Potpourri & A More Hopeful Look at Climate Change
This episode has a little bit of everything as we bring you results from astronomers, geoscientists, climate scientists, imaging scientists, glaciologists, meteorologists, planetary scientists, engineers, and even bioarchaeologists. This diversity of research allows us to better understand our world and beyond.
Aug 10th: Astronaut Eileen Collins & Author Jonathan Ward
Today we have the first woman to command & pilot a U.S. Space Shuttle, Eileen Collins & Author Jonathan Ward discuss their book “Through The Glass Ceiling To The Stars”
Aug 9th: How to Grow a Supermassive Black Hole
Today on #365DaysOfAstro, @AwesomeAstroPod talk to Dr Becky on how to grow a supermassive black hole – and it’s not as easy as you think! Always picture a black hole as a gigantic hoover, sucking up everything that dares to stray too close? Think again…
Aug 8th: Touring the Solar System
What’s all the fuss about Venus our Mars-bound astronauts survive years of exposure to space radiation?
Well yes, they can potentially, but solutions are yet to be
Aug 7th: Student Questions Show: Leelanau School
What’s the closest exoplanet to our solar system? What planet in our solar system should we colonize? Can microscopic black holes be created on Earth? Find the answer with @AstronomyCast
Aug 6th: Double Trouble & Aliens?
Asteroid hunters have discovered a strange asteroid pair. How they came to be together and what humans would do if such a large double trouble object is heading for us? Also about life form outside Earth in Milky Way.