Astronomy episodes
6 episodes so far
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18 min
Pluto and Beyond: What Lies at the Edge of the Solar System?
Pluto lost its planet label, but the icy realm it belongs to is stranger and richer than anyone expected.
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13 min
Made of Stardust: How Dying Stars Built the World We Live In
The gold, iron and oxygen in your body have a history far more violent than you might imagine
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18 min
Halos of Ice and Dust: The Ringed Worlds of the Solar System
Saturn's glittering rings, the faint bands around its siblings, and why the rocky inner planets have none
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22 min
The Geometry of the Cosmos: Ancient Stargazers and Our Place in the Universe
Babylonian clay tablets, a church that put Galileo on trial, and a map of the cosmos holding forty-seven million galaxies
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19 min
Cosmic Lighthouses: Pulsars and the Stars That Keep Perfect Time
A 1967 radio signal was so regular that astronomers half-joked it came from aliens. It was a dead star spinning.
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17 min
Chasing the Eclipse: How Shadows Across the Sun Reshaped Science and Society
From omens of doom to tests of relativity, the story of humanity's long obsession with the sun's brief disappearance
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