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Distant Starlight & White Holes: Answering Your Cosmic Questions | Space Nuts: Astronomy...

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Mars May Still Be Volcanically Active, New Evidence Suggests

Monday SpaceTime 20261109 Series 29 Episode 134 Growing hints of volcanic activity on Mars The European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has detected signs of vol

Mars May Still Be Breathing: Alba Mons’ Mysterious Gas and Swift’s Final Plunge

Is Mars still volcanically alive? Europe's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter keeps catching hydrogen chloride, a gas that comes out of volcanoes on Earth, above fresh cracks on t

Webb’s Early-Universe Puzzle: A Radio First, New Glenn Hardware and Earth’s New Mini Moon

Show notes Light from newborn stars may have blown the fog out of the early universe. A new study by Shyam Menon (Flatiron Institute, ANU PhD) and Aaron Smith (UT Dalla

Betelgeuse’s Hidden Companion Is Stirring the Red Supergiant’s Atmosphere

Friday SpaceTime 20261106 Series 29 Episode 133 Mysterious disturbances from Betelgeuse Astronomers have detected strange happenings on the mysterious companion star that

Webb’s Digital Twin: A Hidden Planet, Ancient Stars and China’s Moon Plan

Show notes A Northwestern-led team builds a physics-based digital twin of the James Webb Space Telescope's coronagraph and recovers the giant planet 51 Eridani b in two

Rubin’s New Dwarf Planet & Neptune’s Trojan Asteroid: Discoveries on the Solar System’s Edge |...

Space Nuts: A New Dwarf Planet, 3I/ATLAS, and Neptune’s Hidden Trojans In this episode of Space Nuts , Andrew Dunkley and Professor Fred Watson explore three discoverie

Escapade’s Double Slingshot: Mars-Bound Probes, Missing Oxygen and Black Holes in Pants

Show notes ESCAPADE's double slingshot over Australia NASA's twin ESCAPADE spacecraft, Blue and Gold, will each fly a powered Earth flyby on their way to Mars: the firs

Gamma-Ray Afterglow Hints at a Hidden Stellar Monster

Wednesday SpaceTime 20261104 Series 29 Episode 132 A cosmic blast’s dazzling glow hints at a monster in hiding Astronomers say a seemingly ordinary flash of gamma rays

Swift’s Final Orbit: A Lost Observatory, a Burst That Defies Explanation and Rusty Interstellar Ice

Show notes Swift's Last Orbit: NASA's burst hunter falls home, a gamma-ray burst that is two explosions in one, and 3I/ATLAS's dusty ice. Swift's Last Orbit NASA's Neil G

Two Black Holes Behind the Dust: Webb Reveals a Hidden Pair in the Early Universe

Show notes Two black holes caught feeding side by side just 1.3 billion years after the Big Bang. JWST and ALMA confirm LID-1166, the first close dual AGN found beyond

New Dwarf Planet Beyond Pluto Could Be Among the Kuiper Belt’s Largest

Monday SpaceTime 20261102 Series 29 Episode 131 New dwarf planet discovered beyond Pluto Astronomers have discovered a new dwarf planet in the outer reaches of the Sola

The Great Attractor & Saturn’s Rings: Unravelling Cosmic Questions | Space Nuts: Astronomy...

Space Nuts: The Great Attractor, What Makes a Moon, and Life Beneath the Rings In this listener Q&A episode of Space Nuts , Andrew Dunkley and Professor Fred Watson tac

The Impenetrable Wall That Failed: Killer Electrons Made Inside Earth’s Radiation Belt

Show notes Electrons made on the wrong side of Earth's 'impenetrable barrier', a gamma-ray burst that only looked weak, the week that was, and a Halloween that is astro

S27E59: Venus’s Vanishing Vapors: The Mystery of a Bone-Dry Planet

Embark on an interplanetary journey with SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 59, where we unravel the enigmatic atmosphere of Venus and its waterless environment. Discover the st

S27E69: Webb’s Record-Breaking Galaxy Discovery and the Hunt for New Worlds

Join us for SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 69, where we uncover the latest cosmic revelations and scientific advancements. First, we delve into a groundbreaking discovery

S27E56: Saturn’s Geyser Moon Mysteries: Tidal Forces and Life’s Potential

Embark on an interstellar odyssey with SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 56, where we delve into the enigmatic geysers of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. Unravel the mystery behin

Mars’s Ancient Rock: A 4-Billion-Year-Old Clue to the Red Planet’s Past

Show notes A rose-coloured rock picked up in the Sahara in 2022 turns out to be one of the oldest pieces of Mars ever found. Teghaza 001 formed at least 4.1 billion years

Lunar Oasis: ESA Plans a Moon Base for Long-Term Science

Friday SpaceTime 20261030 Series 29 Episode 130 Europe’s plans for an OASIS on the Moon The European Space Agency is looking at developing its own moon base facility that

Betelgeuse’s Ghost Companion: The Hidden Star Stirring Orion’s Giant

Episode summary Betelgeuse is being haunted. New VLA and ALMA radio observations show the red supergiant's atmosphere stretches and relaxes in step with the orbit of it