Just when you thought a supernova couldn’t get any cooler (metaphorically speaking, of course), the Kepler spacecraft comes along and spies for the first time the “breakout” of the exploding star from itself. Confused? Then…
Category: Astrophysics
Ten years after the development of a dramatic new picture of the early history of the solar system, dubbed the Nice model (it was created at the Observatory in Nice, France), it has undergone several…
Jim Cooney joins Josh and Addie to talk about the origin of galaxies and the observation of a galaxy from when the universe was but a teeny weeny baby of a universe, less than 1/12th…
We’re back with a Nobel-Prize-winning episode (in that we discuss something that will win a Nobel prize)! A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, two big black holes (no jokes, please) collided…
At Walkabout the Galaxy Josh and Addie, the AstroQuarks, explore all the pressing issues of life the universe and everything: what is the biggest star? How did that comet get to look like a rubber…