365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition

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. Have you ever looked up into the sky…

Streamed live on Jan 20, 2025.

Pollution will ultimately give away a society.

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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 in size, brightness,…

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 us how wonderf…

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 stories for 2025 that we’re looking forward to. It’s a nice m…

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 2024 was weird for you. But, for space an…

Streamed live on Dec 2, 2024

Hosted by: Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela L. Gay

It’s time for our Holiday Gift Guide, where we suggest ideas for presents for the space fans in your life! What books are we …

Streamed live on Nov 25, 2024.

Last week we talked about the Einstein probe. So this week it is only natural that we talk about the man himself, Albert Einstein. He revolutionized the field of physic…

Streamed live on Nov 11, 2024.

Hosted by: Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela L. Gay.

Another day, another space telescope! Today we’re looking at the newly launched Einstein Probe. A collaboration between th…

Streamed live on Nov 5, 2024.

Last week we talked about the mission. This week we’ll talk about Euclid of Alexandria, the ancient Greek mathematician who inspired the mission. Let’s learn about his l…

Let's look at the Euclid Space Telescope.

The Euclid 208-Gigapixel image!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86ZCsUfgLRQ

Streamed live on Oct 21, 2024.

Let's look at the man whose name is carried by the Neil Gehrels Swift Telescope.

Hosted by: Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela L. Gay.

Streamed live October 15, 2024.

Let's look over the long life of the  Neil Gehrels Swift Telescope as it watches for the multi-spectral flashes of high energy explosions.

Streamed live on Sep 30, 2024.

Let's talk about that giant telescope that's changing everything. We have been waiting our entire careers to make this episode on the James Webb Space Telescope, AKA th…

Streamed live on Sep 23, 2024.

Last week, we talked about the Parker Solar Probe. As always, we like to talk about the person who inspired the mission. What makes this amazing and different is that E…

Streamed live on Sep 16, 2024.

Let's look over the long life of the Parker Solar Probe as it explores the Sun and nearby worlds.

The Sun! It’s that ongoing thermonuclear explosion that’s happening ri…

Streamed live Sep 9, 2024.

We made all sorts of predictions, and some of the stuff we didn't know about last July, somehow, we still don't know about as we set up this episode on September 3! Join us…

Streamed live on Jun 24, 2024.

Normally Pamela refuses to think about the future. But today, on our final episode before hiatus, she’s throwing out those rules. It’s like the PURGE! Here’s what we’re…

Streamed live Jun 20, 2024.

Fraser & Pamela list their favorite books! Take notes!

I also have a favor to ask - I'm working on a research project with my collaborator Sanlyn Buxener on what factors h…

Streamed live on Jun 10, 2024.

Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets, revealing entirely new types of worlds that we just don’t have in the solar system. It’s enough to start getting a …