The story I heard is that the title for A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess was chosen when a friend of Burgess read the novel and said it made about as much sense as a…
Category: The Solar System
Astronomers are very excited that they saw something happen in less than a million years! Observations of a super-massive star in our neck of the Milky Way show the development of collimated jets over the…
In this episode of Walkabout the Galaxy we finally answer the question that’s been haunting you all: what does Addie sound like with a stuffy nose? We also ruminate about the joys of going to…
Josh, Addie and guest Jim Cooney discuss the observation by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft of two mysterious white spots on the largest asteroid in the solar system, Ceres. Could they be white monoliths? That’s what we’re…
Josh, Addie and Tracy discuss the new SMAP (Soil Moisture Active Passive) satellite orbiting the Earth to map the changes in the moisture content in the upper 5 cm of soil around the world. In…