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Listen to IRrelevant Astronomy, a Science & Medicine podcast by NASA / SSC-IPAC. Stream 28 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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NOTGLaDOS: Fusion vs. Fission
When a science-mad A.I. system is installed at NASA, two hapless computer technicians learn the process behind nuclear fusion in the Sun, an...
Ask an Astronomy Brain Parasite: Why are astronauts weightless in space?
Deep inside an astronomer's head, a parasite (voiced by Alan Tudyk) taps into his brain to learn about...science! Specifically, about why as...
Robot Astronomy Talk Show: The Mass of Asteroids (Cameron Diaz, Ed Wasser)
Cameron Diaz teaches Robot IR-2 (Ed Wasser) how astronomers can measure the mass of asteroids from tremendous distances.
Big Bang: The Musical
Did you know 13.7 billion year old radiation from the Big Bang can be seen on any analogue TV set? In this mini-musical, a fictional couple...
Astronomy Anemone
Veronica Belmont co-hosts a space-themed talk show with Astronomy Anemone, a carnivorous man-eating sea polyp. WARNING: contains scenes of c...
Robot Astronomy Talk Show: Destroyer of Worlds (Ed Wasser, Wil Wheaton)
Robot IR-2 (Ed Wasser) meets The Physician (Wil Wheaton), an intergalactic buttinsky in a small blue box spaceship. Together, they work to e...
Behind the Scenes: Dead Stars (Sean Astin, Sandeep Parikh)
Actor Sean Astin is hired by a bullying educational film Director and her Flunky sidekick to explain about the life and death of stars. But...
Spaceship Spitzer: Bots of Both Worlds (Amy Okuda, Ed Wasser, Wil Wheaton)
Amy Okuda flies to Saturn to observe a new giant ring around the planet: the largest ring ever discovered in our Solar System, but one that...
Spitzer Space Telescope: The Musical
A singing NASA supervisor uses song to explain about NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, and how infrared astronomy differs from visible-light t...
Behind the Scenes: When Galaxies Collide (Felicia Day, Sean Astin)
Felicia Day explains some of the science behind galactic "collisions," including the upcoming collision between the galaxy Andromeda and our...
Back in Time - Robot Astronomy Talk Show (Linda Hamilton, Dean Stockwell, Ed Wasser)
Linda Hamilton attempts to foil the robots' plans of Universal conquest; meanwhile, Dean Stockwell explains the concept of "looking back in...
Part Two: The Warm Mission (Sean Astin, Betty White)
In this spoof of old TV action shows, Sean Astin, Osa Wallander, and Betty White search for a way to help the Spitzer Space Telescope after...
Gravity and the Great Attractor - Robot Astronomy Talk Show (George Takei, Mark Hamill, Ed Wasser))
George Takei, Mark Hamill, and Ed Wasser provide voices as IR-2 and the robot crew take a look at the Great Attractor, a massive hidden obje...
Twin Brown Dwarfs (Robot Astronomy Talk Show)
While trapped in an interdimensional portal between two brown dwarfs, IR-2 and the robots encounter their evil twins from an alternate unive...
M51 & Gizmo: Half-Baked Plan
Hoping for his birthday to come around sooner, innocent alien M51 moves the Earth into a closer, faster orbit around the sun, and learns an...
The Slowlian Web (Spaceship Spitzer)
During a tense face-off with a sinister (but extremely slow-moving) alien race, Dr. Michelle shows IR-1 how scientists can determine what ex...
Sculpting With Stars (Robot Astronomy Talk Show)
IR-2 opens diplomatic relations with the Earth, as a first step toward ruling over all humans on the planet.
Psych Out
Does the Helix Nebula look like a human eye? Why do we think we see well-known objects in nebulous images from space? An astronomer and his...
The Building Blocks of Life (Robot Astronomy Talk Show)
IR-2 and his crew learn about PAHs, which may be the building blocks of all life in the Universe, and decide to put them to good use.