Author: Diego Rodrigues

June 8, 2021 / Episodes

We’re feeling happy, chatty, and ranty in the first show back in our studio since February, 2020, with a look at two new missions to Venus, a cool experiment about Aurora, magnetic field trivia, and…

June 2, 2021 / Episodes

On our 239th episode the Astroquarks reflect on the Friends Reunion where they reflected on their time making only 236 episodes. The Friends and the Astroquarks have aged, but nothing compared to the Universe. We…

May 26, 2021 / Episodes
May 19, 2021 / Black Holes

We are kidding, neutrinos. We love you. You’re just a little bit scary! In this episode we discuss a way we’ll learn about the mysterious tiny particles and their interactions with matter, as well as…

May 12, 2021 / Episodes

How many licks does it take to get to the center of Saturn? We don’t know, but when you get there you will find a gooey surprise. Saturn’s core is more massive than previously thought,…

April 28, 2021 / Astrophysics

A quackery of astroquarks takes a close look at neutron stars thanks to observations from the NICER observatory on the International Space Station and some clever scientific modeling that reveals these rapidly spinning stellar remnants…