Oct 6, 2014
Feature Guest: Gioia Massa
Imagine enjoying a romantic and nutritious picnic - on Mars! If such a dream is ever to be realized, we're going to have to learn how to grow plants in space and on other worlds. Today we're joined at The Star Spot by space biologist and NASA scientist Gioia Massa to discuss the building of a...
Sep 22, 2014
Feature Guest: Jan Cami
Did you know that buckyballs, complex soccer-ball shaped molecules formed from 60 carbon atoms, were recently discovered deep in interstellar space. Atoms and molecules may be small, but they can tell us lot about the very large, from the temperature of stars to the evolution of galaxies to the...
Sep 8, 2014
Feature Guest: Pauline Barmby
Just like the cities of our world, galaxies are the busy and
over-crowded population centres where so much of the action takes
place in our universe. The study of globular clusters and starburst
galaxies are providing new insights into the how these cities of
the cosmos were built. To...
Aug 25, 2014
Feature Guest: Stanimir Metchev
Brown dwarfs: giant planets or failed stars? The debate rages on with comparable intensity to the surprisingly violent storms seen to roil these fascinating bodies. To help settle the debate, and for cutting edge discoveries of brown dwarfs and their startling behaviour, Stanimir Metchev...
Aug 11, 2014
Feature Guest: David Pankenier
The scholar of Chinese science Joseph Needham wrote that "astronomy was a science of cardinal importance for the chinese since it arose naturally out of that cosmic religion, that sense of the unity and even ethical solidarity of the universe." To help me understand how the mandate of...