Today EVSN look at what tree rings can teach us about past earthquakes, & how well machine learning can identify life, like trees, from carbon-rich materials that were never alive to distant galaxies and spinning black holes. We even take a deep dive into anti-matter.
Feb 1st: Whales and (Possible) Space Whales
As the Thanksgiving leftovers reach the stage of possibly gaining intelligence in the back of our refrigerators, we’re going to take a look at the origins of life, how we might find simple life on icy moons, and even how we can practice learning to communicate with other civilizations by chatting up a humpback whale.
Jan 26th : Blast From the Past: Watch the Annular Eclipse on October 14!
Today we have a story from the past about how to watch solar eclipse. And also the effects of spawning anchovies on energy dissipation in the ocean. Along with that fishy story, we have news from the Mars rovers, pretty images.
Jan 19th: Solar Cycle to the Maximum, 2025
Solar maximum will occur sometime in late 2024 to early 2025. With this cycle and the satellite will experience a good blast of solar radiation. Including the small sats, CanSats.
Jan 12th: Planetary Formation Leads to Strange New Worlds
Time to dive into planetary formation and all the ways scientists have tried to explain stellar systems. Enjoy!
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.