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BREAKING NEWS – Arecibo Telescope Platform Collapses

Dec 3, 2020 | Asteroids, Cosmology, Daily Space, Dark Matter, Galaxies, Moon, Neutron Stars / Pulsars, Observatories, Space China, Spacecraft, Stars, Supernovae, The Sun

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Summary Due to breaking news, our lead story is about the collapse of the Arecibo telescope platform and its dish. Plus magnetars, gamma-ray bursts, sunspots, asteroids, dark matter, and a Kickstarter to preserve an...

Luminous Kilonova Challenges Gamma-ray Burst Theories

Nov 15, 2020 | Astrobiology, Crewed Space, Daily Space, Earth, Exoplanets, Galaxies, Mars, Neutron Stars / Pulsars, Observatories, Physics, Rockets, Space History, Spacecraft, SpaceX, Venus, Very Large Array

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript This is the Daily Space for today, Friday, November 13, 2020. I am your host, Beth Johnson, and I am here to put science in your brain. Unfortunately, Dr. Pamela is dealing with a host of grant deadlines, so...

Science Story Double Feature

Sep 28, 2020 | Asteroids, Daily Space, Mars, Milky Way, Quantum, Saturn, Supermassive Black Holes

Media Listen on LibsynWatch on Twitch Transcript In today’s top story, we have an update on the Event Horizon Telescope’s observations of the supermassive black hole in the core M87. In 2019, an amazing image of the glowing material and bent light twisting...

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...

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...

Exposed planetary core discovered; neutrinos may come from SMBHs; filaments around galaxy cluster Abell 2255; LIGO reveals “spooky popcorn”

Jul 2, 2020 | Daily Space, Exoplanets, Galaxies, Physics, Quantum

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript IMAGE: Dr. Matthew Graham Today we are going to be joined by guest Dr. Matthew Graham. He is a Caltech researcher and the first author on a paper describing the discovery of a transient light phenomenon...