Asteroid Florence with her two mini-moons pays a visit to the Earth, while Tabby’s Star continues to mystify with its unpredictable fluctuations in brightness. The astroquarks also cover the latest LIGO rumors about the detection…
Category: The Solar System
New experiments have created diamonds in the conditions expected in the interiors of Uranus and Neptune. Former Top astroquark Tracy Becker joins Josh, Addie and Jim to discuss diamond rain deep in the atmospheres of…
The astroquarks tell their eclipse stories from the Great American Eclipse. The Sun and every star has weather, spots, oscillations, flares and all sorts of activity. Some of this is revealed during an eclipse to…
The astroquarks discuss the next Kuiper Belt Object to be explored by the New Horizons spacecraft, what it means to be a kilogram, eclipses and occultations, and of course Zombies! Join the astroquarks for the…
The Sun doesn’t just shine, it rings like a bell, or a drumhead wrapped into a ginormous ball of incandescent plasma. The astroquarks talk about how helioseismology tells us about the interior of the Sun, and…