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Iceland Has a New Volcanic Fissure Erupting in Fagradalsfjall

Mar 31, 2021 | Cassini, Climate Change, Daily Space, Earth, Guest Interview, Mars, Titan

After much “will it / won’t it” over the last few weeks in the wake of increased (and then decreased) seismic activity, an eruption in Iceland finally started with a brand new fissure near Fagradalsfjall. No lives are threatened, so Pamela is ecstatic. Plus, arctic...

Explore Gravitational Wave Events in Interactive Graphic

Jan 25, 2021 | Cassini, Curiosity, Daily Space, Dark Matter, Earth, Mars, NuSTAR, Our Solar System, Physics, Titan, Uncategorized

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on YouTube Summary A data visualization designer has created an interactive graphic that allows us to explore all 50 gravitational wave events recorded to date, and some even have sounds! Plus, blue jet lightning and all the...

Bumper Crop of Gravitational Wave Events Detected!

Nov 1, 2020 | AAS, Asteroids, Bennu Mapper, Cosmology, Daily Space, Exoplanets, JAXA, Jupiter, Neptune, Neutron Stars / Pulsars, OSIRIS-REx, Our Solar System, Saturn, Supermassive Black Holes, Titan, Uranus

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript Yesterday, we talked about the accelerated timeline for OSIRIS-REx to stow the sample from Bennu. And we said we would update you all once we had new information. Of course, right after we went off the air...

Planetary Pandemonium: Double Dose

Oct 9, 2020 | Asteroids, Daily Space, Exoplanets, Jupiter, Our Solar System, Titan, Venus

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript Well, it’s been a wild couple of weeks, hasn’t it? I don’t have a lot more to say about my friend and colleague Paranor that hasn’t already been said. He was a huge supporter of me and my work and kept me...

Why pulsars shine brightly; Antares’ atmospheric layers; Volcanic craters on Titan

Jun 16, 2020 | Cassini, Daily Space, Neutron Stars / Pulsars, Stars, Titan, Very Large Array

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript One of the most remarkable things about astronomy is that we have the ability to understand things we can’t touch, measure, or otherwise experience up close. Here, from the surface of our pale blue dot, we...

Titan moving away from Saturn; Infrared photos of Phobos; Hints of new volcanism in Europe

Jun 11, 2020 | Asteroids, Bennu Mapper, Cassini, Daily Space, Earth, Guest Interview, Mars, OSIRIS-REx, Our Solar System, Saturn, Titan

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript IMAGE: Exfoliation features on a cliff face (a) and on boulders (b-f) with varying size and location. The bright dome on the horizon of panel (a) is a boulder behind the exfoliating cliff.CREDIT:...