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 – 1512 : Exoplanets (Encore)
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 planets just like our sun. […]
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. […]