The 365 Days of Astronomy

From May 27, 2021.

Jupiter’s moon Europa, an icy world with a subsurface ocean that interests astrobiologists, may actually be hot enough to melt the interior rock and create volcanoes on the ocean f…

Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan. [email protected]

- Sept 1 - Aurigids ZHR=10 related to Comet Keiss

The comet was discovered by Carl Clarence …

Asking questions and not always answering them.

Is there hope?

Well, sure. The question arises where the Drake Equation, aiming to quantify the likely number

of detectable intelligent civilizations o…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RucWv35XwD0

Hosted by Tony Darnell.

From  Oct 11, 2023.

Over the course of this show, we’ve talked many, many times about the Transit Method for detecting exoplanets. …

http://www.astronomycast.com/archive/

From February 9, 2009.

This week Bob Novella of the Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast is going to pepper Pamela with questions, testing her ability to leap …

Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( @Nmcanopus ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. travelersinthenigh…

In January 2025, astronomers woke up to an alert of a mysterious event that occurred 2.8 billion light years away from Earth. As such things go, this was fairly close to Earth and was an opportunity …

From August 31, 2020.

Join us today as we examine observations for dual quasars in the process of merging and a star being torn apart by its supermassive black hole. Plus, Hubble data used to map a h…

Hosted by our Director, Avivah Yamani.

Today's podcast guides you through the slow-motion meeting of the Milky Way and Andromeda. Learn why stars mostly miss each other, how gravity sculpts tidal tai…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iOb8kC0OuM

From  Sep 8, 2017.

Astronomers have been searching for mid-weight black holes, and now they’ve found one, right here in the Milky Way.

We've added a new …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIfHgFLe4_U

Hosted by Tony Darnell.

From  Apr 26, 2016.

Black holes have been largely theoretical until the LIGO observations announced earlier this year.  Thanks to t…

From April 14, 2008.

Have you ever wondered what it takes to get a spacecraft off the Earth and into space. And how managers at NASA can actually navigate a spacecraft to another planet? And how does…

Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( @Nmcanopus ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. travelersinthenigh…

Hosted by Dr. Jacinta Delhaize, Dr. Tshiamiso Makwela & Dr. Daniel Cunnama.

In this episode of The Cosmic Savannah, our hosts speak with Dr. Eli Kasai from the University of Namibia. Dr. Kasai shares…

From October 8, 2020.

New images taken with the ALMA Observatory show a young proto-stellar disk with the rings and gaps of planetary formation growing together, once again challenging our preconcept…

Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan. [email protected]

The Actual Astronomy Podcast presents Listener Emails. In this episode we talk & read severa…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu9-_p7m-4c

Paul Hill, Ralph Wilkins and Dr. Jenifer “Dr. Dust” Millard host. 

Damien Phillips, John Wildridge and Dustin Ruoff produce.

From  Nov 18, 2022.

An elevato…

What powers Cepheid variable stars? What about Mira variables and pulsating stars? And are there variable stars that don’t actually vary at all? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Sp…

http://www.astronomycast.com/archive/

From February 21, 2011.

When we look around our planet, we see a huge variety in landforms: mountains, valleys, plateaus, and more. Continents rise and fall over…

Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( @Nmcanopus ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. travelersinthenigh…