Time to dive into planetary formation and all the ways scientists have tried to explain stellar systems. Enjoy!
Jan 12th: Planetary Formation Leads to Strange New Worlds
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Jan 5th: It’s Not Aliens (We Also Want Aliens)
JWST observed methane and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet. And we want to know that life is common. But we have not evidence yet. More at #365DaysOfAstro
Dec 29th: The Volcano That Could… But Didn’t
Dr. Pamela is big on volcanoes, and she hoped we’d have an awesome new eruption to report, but we don’t. Instead, we have the first images from a new spacecraft, updates on Lucy’s discovery of a contact binary, and more on the OSIRIS-REx sample return.
Dec 22nd: More (Failed) Observations of Dark Matter
This week EVSN look at the upcoming solar maximum, how solar activity affects Neptune, the robotic invasion fleet on Mars, and how some of the weirdest star systems in reality have been able to form. In our closer look, we fail to see dark matter.
Dec 15th: A River Runs Through It – Mars and Titan
This episode reminds you to look up, look out, and reflect on what we see around us. Stories cover a weird white dwarf that is doing things our Sun may do billions of years from now, how satellite images can now be used to measure river flows here and on Mars, and Titan, as well as the emerging field of planetary geoarcheology. And also climate change. Buckle up, the news isn’t good.
Dec 8th: Satellite Constellations and Early Warning Systems
There are 18 satellite constellations, like Starlink, being planned. These constellations will contain 543,811 satellites. Today EVSN are going to look at early warning systems that are being developed, and how future – more highly mobile satellites, can both do good and create chaos.
Dec 1st: The Universe is (Still) Trying to Murder Us
In today’s episode, we’re going to look at everything from how past Earth couldn’t support photosynthesis because the days were just too short, to current Earth letting us get hit by more Cosmic Rays prior to Earthquakes going off, and to supernovae threatening our world while alien stars eat other planets.
Nov 24th: Once and Future Life on Venus, Earth, and Mars
Each week, when we set off to do this show, we start with one core idea: We want to tell you what is new in space and astronomy… and remember Earth is a planet too.
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 10th: A New Space Race
Space science isn’t where the money is… at least not yet. Astronomy and planetary science in the U.S. are funded by NASA, the National Science Foundation, and a variety of smaller foundations and extremely wealthy individuals.