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
- 2025-02-19 14:41
- last episode published
- 2025-02-12 11:00
- publication frequency
- 10.48 days
- Contributors
- Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove and James Cooney
- Author
- Joshua Colwell
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 378
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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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| 2025-02-12 | The more measurements we make of the expansion of the universe, the more it seems as though Hubble Tension is not a problem with our data but a problem with our understanding of the expansion of the universe. We'll talk about that, and some cool new ob... |
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| 2025-01-29 | Juno reveals a surprise about the interior of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, and the OG young variable star T Tauri is getting ready to fade from view thanks to its dusty neighbors to the south. Speaking of dust, that's what gets kicked up when comets col... |
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| 2025-01-22 | The discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope keep coming. After showing that galaxies formed far earlier than we thought, we now have a better understanding of what was going on in the early universe. Those little red dots spied by JWST are actu... |
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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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