Episode – 1784 : The Moons of Jupiter In 1610, Galileo Gallieli used a new invention called the telescope to observe the planet Jupiter. What he found revolutionized the science […]
Episode – 1777 : Comets
Episode – 1777 : Comets Podcast Transcript For thousands of years, people have looked into the night sky and occasionally seen something unusual. It was something fuzzy, sometimes bright, it […]
Episode – 1737 : The Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud
Episode – 1737 : The Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud Podcast Transcript The Solar System is a pretty big place. When most people think of our Solar System, they […]
Episode – 1711 : Lunar Eclipses
Episode – 1711 : Lunar Eclipses hr class=”wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity”/> Podcast Transcript For as long as humans have been watching the night sky, they noticed that every so often, during a […]
Episode – 1708 : Messier Objects
Episode – 1708 : Messier Objects Podcast Transcript In the 18th century, a French astronomer who was a regular comet hunter kept finding things in the sky that weren’t comets, […]
Episode – 1562 : What Has the JWST Discovered (So Far)?
Episode – 1562 : What Has the JWST Discovered (So Far)? Podcast Transcript On December 25, 2021, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was launched from the European Space Agency launch […]
Episode – 1481 : The Hubble Space Telescope
Episode – 1481 : The Hubble Space Telescope Podcast Transcript On April 24, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery launched the Hubble Space Telescope into low Earth orbit. After some initial […]
Episode – 1370 : Eclipses
Episode – 1370 : Eclipses Podcast Transcript Every few years, somewhere on Earth is witness to one of the planet’s greatest sights: a total solar eclipse. A total solar eclipse […]
Episode – 1366 : Planet X
Episode – 1366 : Planet X Podcast Transcript Ever since the discovery of the planet Neptune in 1846, astronomers have noticed that something was not right. The orbit of Neptune […]
Episode – 1333 : Leap Year
Episode – 1333 : Leap Year Podcast Transcript Once every 1461 days, sometimes, we have a day on the calendar that we don’t normally have: Leap Day. This extra day […]
Episode – 1241 : Uranus
Episode – 1241 : Uranus Podcast Transcript Located approximately 1.8 billion miles or 2.9 billion kilometers from the sun, 19 times the distance from the Earth to the sun, is […]
Episode – 1223 : The OMG! Particle
Episode – 1223 : The OMG! Particle Podcast Transcript On October 15, 1991, a cosmic ray detector in Utah observed something that had never been seen before or since. It […]
Episode – 1215 : All About the Sun
Episode – 1215 : All About the Sun Podcast Transcript Approximately 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers from Earth lies our nearest star, the Sun. The Sun is responsible […]
Episode – 1114 : The Maya Civilization
Episode – 1114 : The Maya Civilization Podcast Transcript Centuries before the arrival of Europeans, one of the greatest civilizations in the Americas rose and fell. They left behind a […]
Episode – 1030 : Galaxies
Episode – 1030 : Galaxies Podcast Transcript For most of human existence, we looked up at the night sky and thought that was all there was to the universe. However, […]
Episode – 0949 : Neptune
Episode – 0949 : Neptune Podcast Transcript In 1612, when Galileo Galilei looked at the planet Jupiter through a telescope, he might have accidentally discovered a new planet, although he […]
Episode – 0787 : The Zodiac
Episode – 0787 : The Zodiac Podcast Transcript Several thousand years ago, astronomers in the Middle East studying the night sky divided it into 12 equal regions. Each region was […]
Episode – 0726 : Exoplanets
Episode – 0726 : Exoplanets Podcast Transcript Ever since astronomers figured out that the stars in the sky are just like our sun, they began wondering if those stars had […]
Episode – 0561 : The Antikythera Mechanism
Episode – 0561 : The Antikythera Mechanism Podcast Transcript In the year 1900, a crew of sponge divers was looking for sponges off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera. […]
Episode – 0532 : The James Webb Space Telescope
Episode – 0532 : The James Webb Space Telescope Podcast Transcript Sometime within the next week of my recording this episode, hopefully, a rocket will be launched from the European […]