Topic: EVSN
Ep. 3.04 Planning for Asteroid Attacks, Dino Prints Cross Ocean, Viper Updates, & more

Ep. 3.04 Planning for Asteroid Attacks, Dino Prints Cross Ocean, Viper Updates, & more

This is another weird week for space news, where it felt like human space exploration was going to steal every headline. We saw the successful return to Earth of Boeing’s Starliner capsule, the successful launch of Polaris Dawn and what appears, at the time of this recording on the morning of Sep 12, the successful space walk of non-NASA astronauts. As we look at all these headlines, it’s important to remember that today’s spending on human space flight is motivated by both a modern Lunar Space Race, and the desire of billionaires to colonize Mars. These adventures in human exploration build...

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Ep. 3.02 NASA Budget Woes May Murder Missions

Ep. 3.02 NASA Budget Woes May Murder Missions

Putting this episode together has been a bit of a wild ride and we actually delayed the episode for one week because I was hoping to see some of the stories on our list to cover come to some kind of a resolution.   But no… 5 extra days later, we’re still not...

Ep 3.01: Found – 1 Intermediate Mass Black Hole

Ep 3.01: Found – 1 Intermediate Mass Black Hole

Let's take a fast-paced journey thru all that's new in space and astronomy, including how Jupiter's Great Red Spot went missing, Io's Lava Lake, Titan's coastal erosion, and this week's tales from the launch pad. We also look closer at the discovery of the first...

S2 Ep 22: Climate in Crisis (and stars in formation)

S2 Ep 22: Climate in Crisis (and stars in formation)

In this episode, we bring you stories on how JWST - Not LIGO and Virgo - spotted the most distant Black Hole merge to date, why the search for life on other worlds gets more challenging the more we look, and we take a deep dive into the things we’re doing that cause...

S2 Ep 22: Climate in Crisis (and stars in formation)

S2 Ep 21: Carrington 2024

In this episode, we’re taking a closer look at Sunspot complex 3664 and the beautiful chaos that it’s been creating. And because we’re in a planetary science kind of mood, we’re also looking at stories related to observing weather on alien worlds, the history of Mars...

S2 Ep 22: Climate in Crisis (and stars in formation)

S2 Ep 20: Io and Juno Begin to Part Ways

In February, on the closest approach, NASA's Juno spacecraft was within 930 miles of the closest moon Io’s surface. Since then, Juno’s orbit has been shrinking, bringing the mission closer to Jupiter and away from the circling Galilean moons. Io and Juno have parted...

S2 Ep 22: Climate in Crisis (and stars in formation)

S2 Ep 19: Catch the (Alien) Rainbow

As scientists discover and explore the atmospheres of more and more planets orbiting stars other than our Sun, we are learning that if you can imagine it, it probably exists. In a new paper discussing the planet WASP-76b, researchers describe what appears to be a...

S2 Ep 22: Climate in Crisis (and stars in formation)

S2 Ep 18: Following the Water Toward Climate Change

This week’s episode is brought to you by last week’s terrible weather. While experiencing hail and thunder IRL, we also saw press release after press release and article after article discussing climate change. This one-two punch of new science and the need for a new...

S2 Ep 22: Climate in Crisis (and stars in formation)

S2 Ep 17: Planet Formation is (Still) Not Well Understood

One of our recurring topics is “Planet formation is not well understood,” and a trio of new papers is making it clear why planet formation continues to... not be well understood. Put simply: the universe likes to create more diverse solar systems than an entire...