Astronomy Cast
Astronomy Cast offers you a fact based journey through the cosmos. Each week Fraser Cain (Universe Today) and Dr. Pamela Gay (SIUE / Slacker Astronomy) take on topics ranging from the nearby planets to ubiquitous dark matter.
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Ep. 74: Antimatter
Sometimes, we don’t get to decide what our show’s about. ...
Sometimes, we don’t get to decide what our show’s about. So many threads come together at the same time driving the decision for us. This is one of those situations. We’ve gotten so many questions from listeners in just the last week about antimatter that
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Ep. 73: Questions Show #8
We’ve been so crazy following our own whims through the ...
We’ve been so crazy following our own whims through the universe that we’ve neglected your questions. That ends today. It’s time to dig deep into our overflowing email box to retrieve the puzzling questions our listeners have sent in.
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Ep. 72: Cosmic Rays
We’re going to return back to a long series of ...
We’re going to return back to a long series of episodes we like to call: Radiation that Will Turn You Into a Superhero. This time we’re going to look at cosmic rays, which everyone knows made the Fantastic Four. These high-energy particles are streaming f
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Ep. 71: Gravitational Waves
When he put together his theories of relativity, Einstein made ...
When he put together his theories of relativity, Einstein made a series of predictions. Some were confirmed just a few years later, but scientists are still working to confirm others. And one of the most fascinating is the concept of gravitational waves.
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Ep. 70: How to Win a Nobel Prize
Just a couple of shows ago, we showed you how ...
Just a couple of shows ago, we showed you how to get a career in astronomy. Now that you've got your career in astronomy, obviously the next goal is to win a Nobel prize. We're here at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin, which is just one
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Student Questions: Farmersburg School
Thanks to GLAST, Astronomy Cast is now able to provide ...
Thanks to GLAST, Astronomy Cast is now able to provide equipment to send to high school teachers who want to Pamela and Fraser to do a special questions show just for their class. We will be making this shows available on the feed on days other than Monda
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Episode 69: The Large Hadron Collider and the Search for the Higgs-Boson
When it was first developed, the standard model predicted a ...
When it was first developed, the standard model predicted a collection of particles, and thanks to more and more powerful colliders, physicsists have been able to find them all except one: the Higgs-Boson. It's an important one because it should explain h
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Episode 68: Globular Clusters
This week we're going to study some of the most ...
This week we're going to study some of the most ancient objects in the entire Universe; globular clusters. These relics of the early Universe contain hundreds of thousands of stars, held together by their mutual gravity. Since they formed together, they g
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Episode 67: Building a Career in Astronomy
With all the enthusiasm that’s being generated with astronomy, it’s ...
With all the enthusiasm that’s being generated with astronomy, it’s had a bit of a strange side-effect. We’ve been causing some of our listeners to have midlife crises about their careers. We’ve had other people who just want advice – they’re moving into
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Episode 66: How Amateurs can contribute to Astronomy
Astronomy is one of the few sciences where amateurs make ...
Astronomy is one of the few sciences where amateurs make meaningful contributions to discoveries. Many professional researchers work hand-in-hand with teams of amateurs to make discoveries that just wouldn't be possible without this kind of collaboration.
