Dec 26, 2016
Feature Guest: Dan Werthimer
Physicist Enrico Fermi once asked, if aliens exist in the galaxy, then just where is everybody. And for nearly 40 years the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, has sought to answer that very question. Now they’re about to take it to the next level. Meet China’s...
Dec 12, 2016
Feature Guest: Roberto Abraham
Imagine a galaxy that has a similar mass and volume to our own but where somebody turned off most of the stars. Meet Dragonfly 44, the most famous member of a new category of galaxies known as ultra-diffuse. Are they failed galaxies, bits of other galaxies or something even stranger....
Nov 14, 2016
Feature Guest: Gail Higginbottom
The British gave us
the world’s first parliament. And now it turns out the ancient
British may have been among the world’s first astronomers. Today
we’re joined here at The Star Spot by archaeoastronomer Gail
Higginbottom. Thanks to her and her team we now have
proof...
Oct 31, 2016
Feature Guest: William Sparks
Extraterrestrial life might be erupting into space from the surface of Europa. And a NASA mission to the icy world could fly right through it. Today I’m joined here at The Star Spot by William Sparks, whose team discovered evidence for water vapour geysers on Jupiter’s...
Oct 17, 2016
Feature Guest: Shawn Bishop
We’ve long known we’re made of star stuff, but now it turns out that life on Earth might be even more intimately connected to events in deep space than we imagined. Scientists recently reported the first ever discovery of supernova ash - atoms forged in the catastrophic explosion of dead...