Ep. 792: Star Wars Science
Hosted by: Fraser Cain ( @frasercain ) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay ( @CosmoQuest ) Streamed live April 29, 2026. May the fourth be with you! Isn’t...
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Ep. 791: Chang'e Sample Return
Hosted by: Fraser Cain ( @frasercain ) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay ( @CosmoQuest ) Streamed live on Apr 20, 2026. Last week we talked about sample...
Ep. 790: Meteorites From Other Worlds
Hosted by: Fraser Cain ( @frasercain ) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay ( @CosmoQuest ) Streamed live April 17, 2026. Even though humanity has returned...
Ep. 789: What Happens When a Planet's Star Dies
Hosted by: Fraser Cain ( @frasercain ) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay ( @CosmoQuest ) Streamed live on Mar 30, 2026. A star like the Sun only lasts a...
Ep. 788: Life’s Molecules Form in Space
Hosted by: Fraser Cain ( @frasercain ) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay ( @CosmoQuest ) Streamed live on Mar 23, 2026. The theory of evolution how life...
Ep. 787: Evolved Stars (They're not dead yet!)
Streamed live on Mar 16, 2026. Main sequence stars spend most of their time being… normal. Fusing hydrogen into helium in their cores. Produ...
Ep. 786: Wolf-Rayet Stars
Hosted by: Fraser Cain ( @frasercain ) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay ( @CosmoQuest ) Streamed live on Mar 9, 2026. You think the Sun is a terrifying...
Ep. 785: Magnetars
Hosted by: Fraser Cain ( @frasercain ) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay ( @CosmoQuest ) Streamed live March 6, 2026. Magnetars are a special type of ne...
Ep. 784: Pulsar-Powered Science
Streamed live on Feb 16, 2026. Pulsars are dead stars and fascinating in their own right, but astronomers can use their predictable rotation...
Ep. 783: Cataclysmic Variable Stars
Hosted by: Fraser Cain ( @frasercain ) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay ( @CosmoQuest ) Streamed live on Feb 16, 2026. There are many types of variable...
Ep. 782: Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients
Streamed live on Feb 13, 2026. Modern astronomy has found that the Universe can surprise us. Here’s one which astronomers have called Lumino...
Ep. 781: Awakening Black Holes
Streamed live on Feb 2, 2026. One long standing mystery in astronomy were the quasars. Incomprehensible energy blasting out of a point-like...
Ep. 780: When Asteroids & Comets Attack!
Hosted by: Fraser Cain ( @frasercain ) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay ( @CosmoQuest ) Streamed live on Jan 26, 2026. We live in a cosmic shooting gal...
Ep. 779: Milankovitch Cycles
Streamed live on Jan 12, 2026. Hosted by: Fraser Cain ( @frasercain ) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay ( @CosmoQuest ) Humans live short lives, and fro...
Ep. 778: Dyson Swarms
Streamed live on Jan 5, 2026. Freeman Dyson asked a fascinating question. What would it look like if a civilization was using all the energy...
Ep. 777: The Eddington Limit
Streamed live on Dec 29, 2025. How big can a star get? This is a calculation made by one of the original pioneers of modern astronomy, Sir A...
Ep. 776: The Matter - Antimatter Dichotomy
Streamed live on Dec 22, 2025. Shortly after the big bang there were almost exactly the same amounts of matter and antimatter in the Univers...
Ep. 775: The Hydrogen 21-cm Line
Streamed live on Dec 15, 2025. Atomic hydrogen is the raw material for stars, but there’s a problem. It’s cold & dark, but it can do a very...
Ep. 774: How Does Bad Science Happen?
Hosted by: Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela L. Gay. Streamed live on Nov 8, 2025. [Editor's Note: Fraser says "Episode 773" at the head of the sho...
Ep. 773: What Would You Do With $1 Billion For Astronomy?
Hosted by: Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela L. Gay. Streamed live on Nov 9, 2025. We are powerless fans of space exploration. But what if some foo...