New Horizons gobbled up an amazing amount of data during its relatively brief encounter with the Pluto system last month, and it will take many months before all that data is transmitted to the ground.…
Category: The Solar System
Astrophysicists get excited beyond all reason because a black hole, V404 Cygni, has just erupted for the first time in 26 years. A black hole eruption, as we learn in this episode of Walkabout the…
The European Space Agency’s Philae lander has awakened from a long dormancy on the surface of the comet 67/P Churyomov-Gerasimenko, promising exciting images from the surface of a comet! New Horizons is speeding towards a…
The galactic council of astrophysicists has decided to annex a large structure of stars and make the formally part of our home, the Milky Way galaxy. Take that Andromeda galaxy! The gang discusses recent discoveries…
Our latest episode discusses some hypothetical situations such as what would happen if the Sun went supernova. We also try to figure out what kind of planet the Game of Thrones world is! View on…