Author: Diego Rodrigues

January 19, 2021 / Black Holes

The galaxy has been making rocky planets for longer than we thought, and a new study shows us how black holes can tell us just how symmetric the universe is using a bumblebee field. You’ll…

January 13, 2021 / Episodes

We welcome special guest Heather Archuletta, a NASA pillownaut, who tells us what it’s like to spend weeks simulating space travel in a slightly inverted bed. While time may have seemed to slow down last…

December 21, 2020 / Cosmology

A planetary explorer in deep space turns its eyes outward and faints a brighter glow from distant galaxies than expected, while an alternative theory to dark matter suffers a blow. (Natural) radio emissions from an…

December 9, 2020 / Black Holes

Astrometry, what is it good for? Among other things it tells us where the heck we are, and that turns out to be only 25,000 light years away from the monster black hole at the…

November 25, 2020 / Cosmology

We are not only star stuff, we are also Big Bang stuff! We learn about how the formation of deuterium in the first few minutes after the Big Bang has left a lingering mark on…

November 18, 2020 / Astrophysics

Learn about a catastrophic merger of neutron stars that resulted in a weird beast known as a magnetar. Also, your Astroquarks take a look at a new model for geysers on Jupiter’s moon Europa, and…