Astronomy Cast

Join Fraser Cain and Pamela Gay for a live episode of Astronomy Cast. We'll record our 30-minute show, and then stay tuned for them to answer questions! White dwarfs are usually about 60% the mass of the Sun, so it was a bit of a surprise when astronomers found one that was almost exactly twice that. What happens when white dwarfs merge? Want to support CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: * Subscribe to our podcasts Astronomy Cast and Daily Space where ever you get your podcasts! * Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/cosmoquestx - follow and subscribe! * Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/cosmoquest * Become a Patreon of CosmoQuest https://www.patreon.com/cosmoquestx * Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast * Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA * Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosm... * Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks *Join our Discord server for CosmoQuest - https://discord.gg/4g35wpW *Join the Weekly Space Hangout Crew! - http://www.wshcrew.space/ * A combination of the above!

Join Fraser Cain and Pamela Gay for a live episode of Astronomy Cast. We'll record our 30-minute show, and then stay tuned for them to answer questions! Want to support CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: * Subscribe to our podcasts Astronomy Cast and Daily Space where ever you get your podcasts! * Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/cosmoquestx - follow and subscribe! * Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/cosmoquest * Become a Patreon of CosmoQuest https://www.patreon.com/cosmoquestx * Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast * Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA * Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosm... * Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks *Join our Discord server for CosmoQuest - https://discord.gg/4g35wpW *Join the Weekly Space Hangout Crew! - http://www.wshcrew.space/ * A combination of the above!

Join Fraser Cain and Pamela Gay for a live episode of Astronomy Cast. We'll record our 30-minute show, and then stay tuned for them to answer questions! We lost a bright star here on planet Earth last week. NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson passed away at the age of 101, after an incredible career of helping humans land on the Moon. If you saw the movie Hidden Figures, you'll know what I'm talking about. Want to support CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: * Subscribe to our podcasts Astronomy Cast and Daily Space where ever you get your podcasts! * Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/cosmoquestx - follow and subscribe! * Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/cosmoquest * Become a Patreon of CosmoQuest https://www.patreon.com/cosmoquestx * Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast * Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA * Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosm... * Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks *Join our Discord server for CosmoQuest - https://discord.gg/4g35wpW *Join the Weekly Space Hangout Crew! - http://www.wshcrew.space/ * A combination of the above!

Join Fraser Cain and Pamela Gay for a live episode of Astronomy Cast. We'll record our 30-minute show, and then stay tuned for them to answer questions! Want to support CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: * Subscribe to our podcasts Astronomy Cast and Daily Space where ever you get your podcasts! * Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/cosmoquestx - follow and subscribe! * Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/cosmoquest * Become a Patreon of CosmoQuest https://www.patreon.com/cosmoquestx * Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast * Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA * Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosm... * Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks *Join our Discord server for CosmoQuest - https://discord.gg/4g35wpW *Join the Weekly Space Hangout Crew! - http://www.wshcrew.space/ * A combination of the above!

Join Fraser Cain and Pamela Gay for a live episode of Astronomy Cast. We'll record our 30-minute show, and then stay tuned for them to answer questions! A brand new telescope has completed on Maui's Haleakala, and it has just one job: to watch the Sun in unprecedented detail. It's called the Daniel K. Inouye telescope, and the engineering involved to get this telescope operational are matched by the incredible resolution of its first images. Want to support CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: * Subscribe to our podcasts Astronomy Cast and Daily Space where ever you get your podcasts! * Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/cosmoquestx - follow and subscribe! * Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/cosmoquest * Become a Patreon of CosmoQuest https://www.patreon.com/cosmoquestx * Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast * Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA * Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosm... * Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks *Join our Discord server for CosmoQuest - https://discord.gg/4g35wpW *Join the Weekly Space Hangout Crew! - http://www.wshcrew.space/ * A combination of the above!

Join Fraser Cain and Pamela Gay for a live episode of Astronomy Cast. We'll record our 30-minute show, and then stay tuned for them to answer questions! We've been following this story for more than a decade, so it's great to finally have an answer to the question, why was supernova 2006gy so insanely bright? Astronomers originally thought it was an example of a supermassive star exploding, but new evidence provides an even more fascinating answer. Want to support CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: * Subscribe to our podcasts Astronomy Cast and Daily Space where ever you get your podcasts! * Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/cosmoquestx - follow and subscribe! * Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/cosmoquest * Become a Patreon of CosmoQuest https://www.patreon.com/cosmoquestx * Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast * Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA * Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosm... * Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks *Join our Discord server for CosmoQuest - https://discord.gg/4g35wpW *Join the Weekly Space Hangout Crew! - http://www.wshcrew.space/ * A combination of the above!

Join Fraser Cain and Pamela Gay for a live episode of Astronomy Cast. We'll record our 30-minute show, and then stay tuned for them to answer questions! On the one hand, red dwarfs are the longest lived stars in the Universe, the perfect place for life to hang out for trillions of years. On the other hand, they're tempestuous little balls of plasma, hurling out catastrophic flares that could wipe away life. Are they good or bad places to live? Want to support CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: * Subscribe to our podcasts Astronomy Cast and Daily Space where ever you get your podcasts! * Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/cosmoquestx - follow and subscribe! * Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/cosmoquest * Become a Patreon of CosmoQuest https://www.patreon.com/cosmoquestx * Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast * Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA * Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosm... * Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks *Join our Discord server for CosmoQuest - https://discord.gg/4g35wpW *Join the Weekly Space Hangout Crew! - http://www.wshcrew.space/ * A combination of the above!

Join Fraser Cain and Pamela Gay for a live episode of Astronomy Cast. We'll record our 30-minute show, and then stay tuned for them to answer questions! For the longest time astronomers could only study the skies with telescopes. But then new techniques and technologies were developed to help us see in different wavelengths. Now astronomers can study objects in both visible light, neutrinos, gravitational waves and more. The era of multi-messenger astronomy is here. Want to support CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: * Subscribe to our podcasts Astronomy Cast and Daily Space where ever you get your podcasts! * Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/cosmoquestx - follow and subscribe! * Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/cosmoquest * Become a Patreon of CosmoQuest https://www.patreon.com/cosmoquestx * Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast * Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA * Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosm... * Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks *Join our Discord server for CosmoQuest - https://discord.gg/4g35wpW *Join the Weekly Space Hangout Crew! - http://www.wshcrew.space/ * A combination of the above!

Join Fraser Cain and Pamela Gay for a live episode of Astronomy Cast. We'll record our 30-minute show, and then stay tuned for them to answer questions! The other big issue at the AAS was the challenge that astronomy is going to face from all the new satellite constellations coming shortly. There are already 180 Starlinks in orbit, and thousands more are coming, not to mention the other constellations in the works. What will be the impact on astronomy, and what can we do about it? Want to support CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: * Subscribe to our podcasts Astronomy Cast and Daily Space where ever you get your podcasts! * Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/cosmoquestx - follow and subscribe! * Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/cosmoquest * Become a Patreon of CosmoQuest https://www.patreon.com/cosmoquestx * Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast * Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA * Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosm... * Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks *Join our Discord server for CosmoQuest - https://discord.gg/4g35wpW *Join the Weekly Space Hangout Crew! - http://www.wshcrew.space/ * A combination of the above!

Join Fraser Cain and Pamela Gay for a live episode of Astronomy Cast. We'll record our 30-minute show, and then stay tuned for them to answer questions! This week we're live at the American Astronomical Society's 235th meeting in Honolulu, Hawai'i. We learned about new planets, black holes and star formation, but the big issue hanging over the whole conference is the protests and politics over the new Thirty Meter Telescope due for construction on Mauna Kea. Want to support CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: * Subscribe to our podcasts Astronomy Cast and Daily Space where ever you get your podcasts! * Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/cosmoquestx - follow and subscribe! * Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/cosmoquest * Become a Patreon of CosmoQuest https://www.patreon.com/cosmoquestx * Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast * Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA * Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosm... * Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks *Join our Discord server for CosmoQuest - https://discord.gg/4g35wpW *Join the Weekly Space Hangout Crew! - http://www.wshcrew.space/ * A combination of the above!

Join Fraser Cain and Pamela Gay for a live episode of Astronomy Cast. We'll record our 30-minute show, and then stay tuned for them to answer questions! It's hard to believe it, but we survived another trip around the Sun. Now it's time to take the whole journey all over again, but with new news. Let's take a look at some of the space and astronomy stories we're looking forward to in 2020. Want to support CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: * Subscribe to our podcasts Astronomy Cast and Daily Space where ever you get your podcasts! * Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/cosmoquestx - follow and subscribe! * Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/cosmoquest * Become a Patreon of CosmoQuest https://www.patreon.com/cosmoquestx * Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast * Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA * Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosmoquestx * Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks *Join our Discord server for CosmoQuest - https://discord.gg/4g35wpW *Join the Weekly Space Hangout Crew! - http://www.wshcrew.space/ * A combination of the above!

Join Fraser Cain and Pamela Gay for a live episode of Astronomy Cast. We'll record our 30-minute show, and then stay tuned for them to answer questions! Huge surveys of the sky are finding more and more planets, stars and galaxies. But they're also turning up strange objects astronomers have never seen before, like Boyajian's star. Today we're going to talk about some unusual objects astronomers have discovered, and why this number is only going to go way way up. Want to support CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: * Subscribe to our podcasts Astronomy Cast and Daily Space where ever you get your podcasts! * Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/cosmoquestx - follow and subscribe! * Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/cosmoquest * Become a Patreon of CosmoQuest https://www.patreon.com/cosmoquestx * Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast * Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA * Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosmoquestx * Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks *Join our Discord server for CosmoQuest - https://discord.gg/4g35wpW *Join the Weekly Space Hangout Crew! - http://www.wshcrew.space/ * A combination of the above!

Join Fraser Cain and Pamela Gay for a live episode of Astronomy Cast. We'll record our 30-minute show, and then stay tuned for them to answer questions! The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation is the earliest moment in the Universe that we can see with our telescopes, just a few hundred thousand years after the Big Bang itself. What will it take for us to be able to fill in the missing gap? To see closer to the beginning of time itself? Want to support CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: * Subscribe to our podcasts Astronomy Cast and Daily Space where ever you get your podcasts! * Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/cosmoquestx - follow and subscribe! * Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/cosmoquest * Become a Patreon of CosmoQuest https://www.patreon.com/cosmoquestx * Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast * Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA * Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosmoquestx * Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks *Join our Discord server for CosmoQuest - https://discord.gg/4g35wpW *Join the Weekly Space Hangout Crew! - http://www.wshcrew.space/ * A combination of the above!

Join Fraser Cain and Pamela Gay for a live episode of Astronomy Cast. We'll record our 30-minute show, and then stay tuned for them to answer questions! Powerful observatories like Hubble and the Very Large Telescope have pushed our vision billions of light-years into the Universe, allowing us to see further and further back in time. But there are regions which we still haven't seen: the Cosmic Dark Ages. What's it going to take to observe some of these earliest moments in the Universe? Want to support CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: * Subscribe to our podcasts Astronomy Cast and Daily Space where ever you get your podcasts! * Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/cosmoquestx - follow and subscribe! * Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/cosmoquest * Become a Patreon of CosmoQuest https://www.patreon.com/cosmoquestx * Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast * Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA * Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosmoquestx * Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks *Join our Discord server for CosmoQuest - https://discord.gg/4g35wpW *Join the Weekly Space Hangout Crew! - http://www.wshcrew.space/ * A combination of the above!

Join Fraser Cain and Pamela Gay for a live episode of Astronomy Cast. We'll record our 30-minute show, and then stay tuned for them to answer questions! Last week we gave you an update on the formation of elements from the Big Bang and in main sequence stars like the Sun. This week, we wrap up with a bang, talking about the death of the most massive stars and how they seed the Universe with heavier elements. Want to support CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: * Subscribe to our podcasts Astronomy Cast and Daily Space where ever you get your podcasts! * Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/cosmoquestx - follow and subscribe! * Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/cosmoquest * Become a Patreon of CosmoQuest https://www.patreon.com/cosmoquestx * Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast * Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA * Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosmoquestx * Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks *Join our Discord server for CosmoQuest - https://discord.gg/4g35wpW *Join the Weekly Space Hangout Crew! - http://www.wshcrew.space/ * A combination of the above!

Join Fraser Cain and Pamela Gay for a live episode of Astronomy Cast. We'll record our 30-minute show, and then stay tuned for them to answer questions! The Universe started out with hydrogen and helium and a few other elements, but all around us, there are other, more proton-rich elements. We believe these heavier elements formed in stars, but which stars? And at what points in their lives? Today we'll update our knowledge with the latest science. ant to support CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: * Subscribe to our podcasts Astronomy Cast and Daily Space where ever you get your podcasts! * Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/cosmoquestx - follow and subscribe! * Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/cosmoquest * Become a Patreon of CosmoQuest https://www.patreon.com/cosmoquestx * Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast * Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA * Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosmoquestx * Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks *Join our Discord server for CosmoQuest - https://discord.gg/4g35wpW *Join the Weekly Space Hangout Crew! - http://www.wshcrew.space/ * A combination of the above!

Join Fraser Cain and Pamela Gay for a live episode of Astronomy Cast. We'll record our 30-minute show, and then stay tuned for them to answer questions! Few sciences have been able to take advantage of the power of computers like astronomy. But with all this computing power, you might be surprised to learn how important a role humans still play in this science. Want to support CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: * Subscribe to our podcasts Astronomy Cast and Daily Space where ever you get your podcasts! * Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/cosmoquestx - follow and subscribe! * Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/cosmoquest * Become a Patreon of CosmoQuest https://www.patreon.com/cosmoquestx * Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast * Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA * Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosmoquestx * Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks *Join our Discord server for CosmoQuest - https://discord.gg/4g35wpW *Join the Weekly Space Hangout Crew! - http://www.wshcrew.space/ * A combination of the above!

Join Fraser Cain and Pamela Gay for a live episode of Astronomy Cast. We'll record our 30-minute show, and then stay tuned for them to answer questions! Once again, another place where the Universe is going to make this difficult for us. Proving, once and for all that there's alien life on another world. It should be straightforward, look for biosignatures, but it looks like there are natural sources that could explain almost any chemical we could hope to search for. Want to support CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: * Subscribe to our podcasts Astronomy Cast and Daily Space where ever you get your podcasts! * Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/cosmoquestx - follow and subscribe! * Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/cosmoquest * Become a Patreon of CosmoQuest https://www.patreon.com/cosmoquestx * Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast * Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA * Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosmoquestx * Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks *Join our Discord server for CosmoQuest - https://discord.gg/4g35wpW *Join the Weekly Space Hangout Crew! - http://www.wshcrew.space/ * A combination of the above!

Join Fraser Cain and Pamela Gay for a live episode of Astronomy Cast. We'll record our 30-minute show, and then stay tuned for them to answer questions! Things used to be so simple. Comets were snowballs from the outer Solar System, and asteroids were rocks from the inner Solar System. But now everything's all shades of grey. Astronomers have found asteroids that behave like comets and comets that behave like asteroids. Want to support CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: * Subscribe to our podcasts Astronomy Cast and Daily Space where ever you get your podcasts! * Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/cosmoquestx - follow and subscribe! * Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/cosmoquest * Become a Patreon of CosmoQuest https://www.patreon.com/cosmoquestx * Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast * Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA * Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosmoquestx * Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks *Join our Discord server for CosmoQuest - https://discord.gg/4g35wpW *Join the Weekly Space Hangout Crew! - http://www.wshcrew.space/ * A combination of the above!

Join Fraser Cain and Pamela Gay for a live episode of Astronomy Cast. We'll record our 30-minute show, and then stay tuned for them to answer questions! Once again, another place where the Universe is going to make this difficult for us. Proving, once and for all that there's alien life on another world. It should be straightforward, look for biosignatures, but it looks like there are natural sources that could explain almost any chemical we could hope to search for. Want to support CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: * Subscribe to our podcasts Astronomy Cast and Daily Space where ever you get your podcasts! * Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/cosmoquestx - follow and subscribe! * Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/cosmoquest * Become a Patreon of CosmoQuest https://www.patreon.com/cosmoquestx * Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast * Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA * Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosmoquestx * Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks *Join our Discord server for CosmoQuest - https://discord.gg/4g35wpW *Join the Weekly Space Hangout Crew! - http://www.wshcrew.space/ * A combination of the above!