Dec 14, 2015
Feature Guest: Henry Joy McCracken
Last month scientists announced the shocking discovery of 574
monster galaxies from the ancient universe. There are surprisingly
many such giant galaxies, and they seem to appear more suddenly and
earlier than astronomers predicted. How might this finding upend
our understanding of...
Nov 30, 2015
Feature Guest: Scott Sheppard
Recently astronomers discovered an object further
than anything we’ve ever found in our solar system. This dwarf
planet lies all the way out in the mysterious inner oort cloud.
Today the object’s co-discoverer Scott Sheppard joins guest host
Denise Fong here at The Star Spot, to reveal...
Nov 16, 2015
Feature Guest: David Paige
There was once a time when scientists believed that beyond the Earth there lied a largely dry, barren and inhospitable solar system. But now we think there is likely to be liquid water below the surface of Jupiter’s moons Ganymede and Europa, a warm salty ocean below the crust of...
Nov 2, 2015
Feature Guest: Pawel Artymowicz
Star Wars fans will be familiar with the planet Tatooine and its two suns. But as it turns out the majority of stars in the Milky Way galaxy live with a companion. And that’s led scientists to study how multiple star systems form and develop, and whether they can host habitable...
Oct 5, 2015
Feature Guest: Randy Attwood
Nearly a quarter of Americans confuse astronomy with astrology. And barely half know it takes the Earth a year to go around the Sun. Yes, you read that right. Clearly, we have a lot of work to do.
Today we're joined at The Star Spot by Randy Attwood. He’s Executive Director of the Royal...