Walkabout the Galaxy
An irreverent and informative tour of the latest, greatest and most interesting discoveries in astronomy.
- Website
- http://walkaboutthegalaxy.libsyn.com
- Description
- An irreverent and informative tour of the latest, greatest and most interesting discoveries in astronomy.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-01-16 02:38
- last episode published
- 2025-01-15 11:00
- publication frequency
- 10.48 days
- Contributors
- Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove and James Cooney
- Author
- Joshua Colwell
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 375
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- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture Natural Sciences Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-01-15 |
Kiss and Capture for Pluto and Charon and Dark Energy Remains Dark Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, orbit each other with gazes lovingly fixed on each other, held in place by a romantic tidal attraction. But Charon's large size has always been difficult to explain. New simulations show that their love affair may ha... |
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| 2025-01-08 | We kick off 2025 with oddities from quasi particles, to cosmic rays, to the moons of Pluto. What has mass when it moves in one direction and doesn't when it moves in another direction? How do thunderstorms on Earth interact with cosmic rays? What is up... |
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| 2024-12-18 | We know about extinct comets and active asteroids, but now we've got something in between: dark comets, whose orbits indicate cometary activity, but we can't see it! We'll get the scoop on these interesting objects, a flare from a supermassive black ho... |
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| 2024-12-11 | Top quark Jim Cooney explains why making big blobs is hard and how new observations are helping us understand how the universe made big immensely big blobs more commonly known as giant elliptical galaxies. Nature loves to make a disk, and we love to te... |
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| 2024-11-27 | It's a good news bad news story with the detection of the neutrino fog. This signal from solar neutrinos may confound our search for certain dark matter candidates, but at least we know our detectors are very, very sensitive! We also take a look at mag... |
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| 2024-11-20 | If you're speaking English, not Latin, do you really have to say "supernovae" instead of "supernovas"? Also, they are, in some sense, created equally: explosion of a white dwarf, but the outcomes are not all equal. You are welcome for this grammatical ... |
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| 2024-11-06 | New observations contradict earlier studies about the possibility of another belt of comets orbiting the Sun twice as far away as Pluto. We'll take a look at what's what in the outer solar system and also explore whether black holes may help explain th... |
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| 2024-10-30 | Join Strange and Down quarks for a close look at Trojan asteroids, the forgotten asteroids of the solar system. NASA's Lucy mission is en route to take our first close look at these denizens of the outer solar system and has an Earth gravity assist in ... |
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| 2024-10-23 |
Basin Instinct - Cosmological Structure and Edible Asteroids We get a tour of our place in the grand cosmological scheme of things with new mapping of the local Basin of Attraction. Spoiler: also Jim's new stage name. And we explore the final frontier of In Situ Resource Utilization with studies of how to get ed... |
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| 2024-10-09 | Original Top Quark Dr. Tracy Becker returns to her old stomping grounds to hang with the Walkabout crew and send Europa Clipper on its way to Jupiter. Join us for a preview of this mission's ambitious goals and the exciting journey it took to the launc... |
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