Gravitational waves lead to ground-breaking, “impossible” discovery; Triple-star planetary rings
Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript Today is going to be pretty much a single story day because the story we have is big enough that we need the entire episode to really explain it. This is the story of the discovery of an intermediate black...
Whole lotta what: Gamma-ray heartbeat heard; Stars with planets have no chemical fingerprint; ‘Oumuamua not made of molecular hydrogen ice
Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch (WARNING: Audio inception fail at beginning.) Transcript Today’s news is entirely unsatisfying. In general, these stories create more questions than they answer. You are warned. Story one: Two objects, 100 light-years apart,...
Mission updates: Arecibo suffers damage, OSIRIS-Rex performs final rehearsal, TESS completes primary mission, plus guest Kynan Hughson talks Ceres
Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript IMAGE: Dr. Kynan Hughson, courtesy Georgia Tech After the news today, we will be joined by Georgia Tech postdoc Dr. Kynan Hughson to go more in-depth about this week’s amazing wealth of publications on the...
Galaxies have magnetic fields, too; ultraviolet flash spotted with supernova; multi-planet system directly imaged; new method finds ‘lost’ worlds
Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript NOTE: Stay tuned today at the end of the podcast and stream for the bonus content of the docking of the Progress 76 capsule at the International Space Station. I would like to start today’s episode by...
Active volcanoes on Venus; mini-Neptune exoplanets may be ocean worlds; observing comet NEOWISE
Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript The one thing that limits our ability to understand our universe, more than anything else, is money. Funding for space exploration limits how many spacecraft we can send to other worlds. Funding for...About Our Podcast
Get your daily dose of all that’s new in space and astronomy. The sky is not the limit, as we bring you a fast-paced roundup of launches, landings, and everyday discoveries. The Daily Space is brought to you by the team behind CosmoQuest at the Planetary Science Institute, and features hosts Dr. Pamela L. Gay & Annie Wilson.
