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2025-03-03

  Astronomy Cast Ep. 746: Dust Storms

Astronomy Cast Ep. 746: Dust Storms By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live Feb 24, 2025. We have dust storms on Earth and of course the famous dust storms on Mars. There are even dust storms on Titan. What causes these storms and how do they...
2025-02-24

  Astronomy Cast Ep. 745: How We Know If Asteroids Will Attack

Astronomy Cast Ep. 745: How We Know If Asteroids Will Attack By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live Feb 20, 2025. I’m sure you’ve heard the news, asteroid 2024 YR4 has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2032. How do astronomers discover these...
2025-02-17

  Astronomy Cast Ep. 744: Lunar Time

Astronomy Cast Ep. 744: Lunar Time By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Feb 10, 2025. What time is it? OK, fine, what time is it on the Moon? The Moon orbits the Earth, so it doesn’t fall into a specific time zone. Also, there’s lower g...
2025-02-10

  Astronomy Cast Ep. 743: What Else Can We Learn From Gravitational Waves?

Astronomy Cast Ep. 743: What Else Can We Learn From Gravitational Waves? By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Feb 3, 2025. Just a few years ago LIGO detected the first direct evidence of gravitational waves coming from colliding black h...
2025-02-03

  Astronomy Cast Ep. 742: Atmospheric Gravity Waves

Astronomy Cast Ep. 742: Atmospheric Gravity Waves By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Jan 27, 2025. Hosted by: Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela L. Gay Gravity Waves ... not gravitational waves ... move atmospheres and make pretty clouds. Hav...
2025-01-27

  Astronomy Cast Ep. 741: Technosignatures

Astronomy Cast Ep. 741: Technosignatures By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Jan 20, 2025. As humanity developed more advanced technology, we’re having a larger effect on our environment. The more we do, the more we could be detectable...
2025-01-20

  Astronomy Cast Ep. 740: Sneaky Stars!

Astronomy Cast Ep. 740: Sneaky Stars! By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Jan 13, 2025. Why stars can’t be trusted! If you’re an astronomer you depend on accurate observations of stars, but there’s a problem. Stars are sneaky! Changing...
2025-01-13

  Astronomy Cast Ep. 739: Drones!

Astronomy Cast Ep. 740: Drones! By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live January 9, 2025. From little Ingenuity to the future Firefly and all our Earth Science fliers, let's look at the buzzy scientists. NASA’s Mars Ingenuity helicopter showed...
2024-12-23

  Astronomy Cast Ep. 738: Looking Ahead to 2025

Astronomy Cast Ep. 738: Looking Ahead to 2025 By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Dec 16, 2024. What can we hope (or dread) to see in 2025? Last week we talked about the 2024 strangeness. Now we’re gonna talk about the upcoming space s...
2024-12-16

  Astronomy Cast Ep. 737: Weird Science Stories From 2024

Astronomy Cast Ep. 737: Weird Science Stories From 2024 By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live December13, 2024. Hosted by: Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela L. Gay. 2024 was a strange year! I’ll let your imagination take flight and consider how 20...