Ep. 286 How to Debunk an End-of-the-World Myth

Everyone is always predicting the end of the world. Someone's going to tell you that this the year that it's all going to end… the end of planet Earth… and they're always wrong. But, someone will eventually be right. Planet Earth is doomed, lets figure out how.

Ep. 285 How the World Will Really End

Have you checked out the internet lately? Apparently there is some kind of rogue planet causing pole alignment and a killer solar flare that will set off a chain reaction turning the whole universe into strange-matter……. after an alien invasion.

Ep. 284 Optics

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) Astronomy depends on bullying light. We reflect it, refract it, bend it, and near it through complex manipulations of light. Though optics we bring we bring the distant universe to our eyepiece. Ep. 284: Optics Jump to Shownotes Jump to...

Ep. 283 Stellar Motions

Our Universe appears timeless and unchanging, the stars taking their nightly flight across the sky. But over long periods of time, you realize that our local region, and even the entire Milky Way is in constant motion. The constellations we see today would be very different millions or even thousands of years ago. Today we'll discuss stellar motion, how astronomers detect it and how it's useful.

Ep. 282 Seasons

Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. These are the seasons we experience here on Earth as our planet completes an orbit around the Sun. But what's going on? Why do we experience such different temperatures and weather over the course of 365 days? Do other planets experience the seasons like we do?