Galaxies | The Daily Space

Dark matter discrepancy; unique supernova; extreme galaxies

Sep 15, 2020 | Cosmology, Daily Space, Dark Matter, Galaxies, Guest Interview, Supernovae

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript IMAGE: Dr. David Grinspoon Stay tuned after the Daily Space for a live interview with Dr. David Grinspoon of the Planetary Science Institute regarding yesterday’s news about phosphine in the atmosphere...

Gravitational waves lead to ground-breaking, “impossible” discovery; Triple-star planetary rings

Sep 8, 2020 | Black Holes (Stellar), Cosmology, Daily Space, Exoplanets, Supermassive Black Holes

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...

Dual quasars; tidal disruption events; and a halo for Andromeda

Aug 31, 2020 | Daily Space, Galaxies, Gemini North, Quasar, Supermassive Black Holes

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript Today’s news is brought to you by my second cup of coffee because sometimes one is not enough. In fact, one is not enough for many things today, including supermassive black holes (SMBH). It’s...

Whole lotta what: Gamma-ray heartbeat heard; Stars with planets have no chemical fingerprint; ‘Oumuamua not made of molecular hydrogen ice

Aug 18, 2020 | Asteroids, Daily Space, Exoplanets, Quasar

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,...

Free-flowing water on ancient Mars? Not so fast! Plus a black hole fails to prevent star formation and unequal neutron stars colliding may be noisy.

Aug 4, 2020 | Cosmology, Daily Space, Galaxies, Mars, Neutron Stars / Pulsars, Star Forming Region

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript In bringing you the news each day, we review often a dozen papers to pick out which stories are the most interesting to us that we hope will also be more interesting to you. Lots of factors go into picking...

Quantum effects observed in white dwarfs; machine learning helps find low-oxygen-abundance galaxy; signs of possible neutron star in SN 1987A; pair of recent meteorites found in Australia

Aug 3, 2020 | Daily Space, Galaxies, Neutron Stars / Pulsars, Our Solar System, Quantum, Stars, Supernovae Remnants, White Dwarfs

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript Today’s science is the kind of reassuring “reality matches expectation” science that sometimes we need on a Monday. There are lots of never-observed theories in astronomy that we think must be true...