Today’s Episode
Aug 28th: Galaxies Don’t Crash, They Remix
Today podcast tell a story about galaxies collision and how gravity reshapes galaxies, builds tidal tails, and triggers starbursts.
Subscribe & Follow
Project Director: Avivah Yamani
Audio Engineer: Richard Drumm
Executive Producer: Pamela L. Gay
Learn more about us on our
Credits and Sponsors page.
We are a community podcast,
bringing you the voices of astronomy & astronomy lovers,
everyday of the year.
More Recent Episodes
Aug 22nd: Stars and Planets May Grow Up Together!
New images taken with the ALMA Observatory show a young proto-stellar disk with the rings and gaps of planetary formation growing together, once again challenging our preconceptions
Aug 21st: Listener Emails
In this episode Actual Astronomy read several listener emails including Observing Saturn, Equipment reports, telescope making, public outreach, a supernova photo and more!
Aug 20th: How Realistic is a Space Elevator?
No more explosive rockets – ride an elevator into orbit and open up the solar system for human exploration. But is that realistic or are there just as many risks with the space elevator?
Aug 19th: How Do Variable Stars, You Know, Vary?
What powers Cepheid variable stars? What about Mira variables and pulsating stars? And are there variable stars that don’t actually vary at all?
Aug 18th: Geomorphology
Continents rise and fall over the eons, providing geologists with a history of the planet’s evolution. The study of these changes is known as geomorphology, and the lessons we learn here on Earth apply to the other objects in the Solar System
Aug 17th: How Close Can An Asteroid Approach & Humans Can
Today’s Travelers in the night tell stories about Earth MOID, the closest an asteroid can come to our home planet & what human can accomplish when working together