Ep. 244: Io

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) If you want to see one of the strangest places in the Solar System, look no further than Io, Jupiter’s inner Galilean moon. The immense tidal forces from Jupiter keep the moon hotter than hot, with huge volcanoes blasting lava hundreds of kilometres...

Ep. 242: Torino Scale

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) When you hear of a looming asteroid strike, do you wonder what to do? Should you go into your underground bunker, evacuate the state, or leave the planet? Fortunately, astronomers have developed the Torino Scale – a handy measurement that incorporates...

Ep. 238: Solar Activity

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) The Sun looks like a harmless burning ball of fire in the sky: warm, life-giving and forever unchanging. But we know better, don’t we. It’s really a massive ball of churning hydrogen plasma, encased in twisting magnetic field lines, speckled...

Ep. 237: Spooky Sounds From Space

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) To help you out with your halloween parties, we’ve collected together the spooky sounds of space. Every piece of audio we’re about to play might sound like it comes from a terrifying nightmare dimension, but it’s really just a natural...

Ep. 225: Ice in Space

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) A huge part of the Solar System is just made of ice. There are comets, rings, moons and even dwarf planets. Where did all this ice come from, and what impact (pardon the pun) has it had for life on Earth? Ep. 225: Ice in Space Jump to Shownotes Jump...

Ep. 220: Mass Extinction Events

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) The Earth seems like a safe place, most of the time. But we have evidence of terrible catastrophes in the ancient past. Times when almost all life on Earth was wiped out in a geologic instant. What could have caused so much devastation? And will something...