Ep. 243: Tunguska Event

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) On June 30th, 1908 “something” exploded over the Tunguska region of Siberia, flattening thousands of square kilometres of forest, and unleashing a force that rivalled the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. What was it? What could...

Ep. 231: Galileo Galilei

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) It’s hard to imagine a more famous astronomer than Galileo Galilei. He’s widely recognized as the very first person to point a telescope at the skies and then study what he saw. Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter, the phases of Venus, and...

Ep. 230: Christiaan Huygens

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) And now we finish our trilogy of Saturnian astronomers and missions with a look at the Dutch astronomer and mathematician, Christiaan Huygens. It was Huygens who discovered Titan, and figured out what Saturn’s rings really are, so it makes sense that...

Ep. 228: Giovanni Cassini

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) Another two parter, coming at you. This week we talk about the Italian astronomer, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, best known for discovering Saturn’s moons and the biggest division in Saturn’s rings. Cassini made many other important discoveries in...

Ep. 216: Archaeoastronomy

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) The Sun, Moon, stars and planets are visible to the unaided eye, and so they have been visible to astronomers since before recorded history. Some of the earliest records we do have tell us what the ancient astronomers thought about the heavens, and how they...

Ep. 207: Lyman Spitzer

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) Time for another action-packed double episode of Astronomy Cast. This week we focus on the Lyman Spitzer, a theoretical physicist and astronomer who worked on star formation and plasma physics. Of course, this will lead us into next week’s episode...