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
- 2024-04-17 20:06
- last episode published
- 2024-04-03 10:10
- publication frequency
- 10.5 days
- Contributors
- Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove and James Cooney
- Author
- Joshua Colwell
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 347
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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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| 2024-04-03 | Analysis of the samples returned from the asteroid Bennu have revealed surprising assemblages of minerals that put new constraints on the origin of the solar system. And once Top Quark Jim Cooney stops giggling, he tells us about the discovery of an it... |
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| 2024-03-27 | We peer back in time both to the murky history of our own solar system and to the dark ages of the universe. The JWST has confirmed that dwarf galaxies were the first to illuminate the universe, putting an end to the dark ages that followed the cooling... |
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| 2024-03-20 | One of only a handful of recurrent novas, white dwarf stars that undergo a periodic explosive brightening as they accrete material from a neighboring star, is showing signs that it may be ready to blow sometime in 2024! Visible in the northern hemisphe... |
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| 2024-03-06 | The presumed metallic asteroid Psyche gets a new look before the spacecraft of the same name gets there in 2029, and it reveals different spectral characteristics than were observed in previous studies. We discuss the mystery of metallic asteroids and ... |
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| 2024-02-28 | Saturn's so-called Death Star moon Mimas may harbor a global subsurface ocean based on analysis of Cassini data of the tiny moon's orbit and rotation. And in the distant universe, what was previously thought to be a run-of-the-mill star in our own gala... |
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| 2024-02-21 | Water molecules have been observed on the surface of an asteroid for the first time, and new studies help explain some of the odd behavior of planetary ring systems, including why they even exist around small objects in the outer solar system. Join us ... |
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| 2024-02-07 | In this special episode recorded live at MegaCon Orlando 2024, we are joined by NPR space reporter Brendan Byrne to take a close look at where we are in the mission to get people to the red planet. We take a look at the next steps in the Artemis progra... |
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| 2024-01-31 | There's another claim for a violation of the cosmological principle - that all parts of the universe are basically the same on large scales - but Top quark Jim Cooney explains all is not lost for the standard model of the universe, and more observation... |
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| 2024-01-24 | Strange disappearing islands in the hydrocarbon lakes of Saturn's giant moon Titan may be fluffy icebergs of hydrocarbon snow. If you're on Titan, definitely don't eat the snow, yellow or not. As the Lucy mission heads towards the Trojan asteroids, que... |
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| 2024-01-10 | What role has Jupiter played in the existence of our warm and cosy home planet? Has it been bravely using its gravity to keep the inner solar system calm, or did we luck out and escape getting hurtled out of the solar system or dashed to bits in a gian... |
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