Walkabout the Galaxy
Share:

Listens: 20

About

An irreverent and informative tour of the latest, greatest and most interesting discoveries in astronomy.

Binaries Galore

The intrepid New Horizons spacecraft has discovered close binary comets in the Kuiper belt, and the Lucy mission is getting ready to explore binary tr...
Show notes

Centaurs and Rocky Clouds

Comet 29P is on an odd, distant orbit, between Jupiter and Saturn, and like a fidgety child sent to the corner, it keeps having unpredictable outburst...
Show notes

The Psychohistory of Astroquarks

We discuss not one but two galactic civilizations (Dune and Foundation) coming to screens big and small this Fall. Life being a central part of most c...
Show notes

Odd Galaxies and Odder Planets

We explore dwarf galaxies with no star formation and dwarf planets with a clue to a lurking object in the outer solar system. But first Top Quark is s...
Show notes

The Missing Astroquark

The Galaxy is in turmoil. At the galactic council MEGACON, the forces of Cosplay, Comics, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Gaming, and more have gathered to restore b...
Show notes