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Ep. 804: Mission Tech Series: Fairings, Docking & Airlocks

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Ep. 803: Mission Tech Series: Engines & Stages

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Ep. 802: Mission Tech Series: Rocket & Spacecraft 411

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Ep. 801: The Beginning & End of Everything - Part 2

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Astronomy Cast Can't Go On Like This

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Ep. 800: The Beginning & End of Everything - Part 1

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Ep. 799: Heavy Lift Rockets

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Ep. 798: Our Summer Media List

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Ep. 797: Summer in Space

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Ep. 796: Oceans & Organics on Mars

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Ep. 795: Expanse Science

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Ep. 794: Stargate Science

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Ep. 793: Star Trek Science

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Ep. 792: Star Wars Science

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Ep. 791: Chang'e Sample Return

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Ep. 790: Meteorites From Other Worlds

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Ep. 789: What Happens When a Planet's Star Dies

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Ep. 788: Life's Molecules Form in Space

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Ep. 787: Evolved Stars (They're not dead yet!)

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Ep. 786: Wolf-Rayet Stars

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Ep. 785: Magnetars

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Ep. 784: Pulsar-Powered Science

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Ep. 783: Cataclysmic Variable Stars

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Ep. 782: Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients

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Ep. 781: Awakening Black Holes

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Ep. 780: When Asteroids & Comets Attack!

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Ep. 779: Milankovitch Cycles

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Ep. 778: Dyson Swarms

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Ep. 777: The Eddington Limit

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Ep. 776: The Matter - Antimatter Dichotomy

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Ep. 775: The Hydrogen 21-cm Line

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Ep. 774: How Does Bad Science Happen?

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Ep. 773: What Would You Do With $1 Billion For Astronomy?

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Ep. 772: 2025 Gift Guide

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Ep. 771: Comet Tails

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Ep. 770: The Ethics of Mars Exploration

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Ep. 769: Little Red Dots

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Ep. 768: Comets' Unpredictability

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Ep. 767: Black Holes in Extreme Circumstances

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Ep. 766: How Spacecraft End

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Ep. 765: Rockets vs The Environment

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Ep. 764: Cleared For Launch!

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Ep. 763: Interstellar Comets

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Ep. 762: Science in Crisis - NASA's New Budget

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Ep. 761: It's Here! The Vera Rubin Observatory

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Ep. 760: What to Look For This Summer

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Ep. 759: The Commercial Space Program

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Ep. 758: Non-Roving Rovers

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Ep. 757: CubeSats

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Ep. 756: SphereX

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Ep. 755: Intermediate Mass Black Holes

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Ep. 754: K2-18b

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Ep. 753: Why is the Moon's South Pole So Interesting?

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Ep. 752: Should We Go to the Moon or Mars Next?

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Ep. 751: Vacuum Energy

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Ep. 750: Supernova Early Warning System

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Ep. 749: Dark Energy Changing Over Time

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Ep. 748: Fast Radio Bursts

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Ep. 747: Rogue Planets

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Ep. 746: Dust Storms

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Ep. 745: How We Know If Asteroids Will Attack

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Ep. 744: Lunar Time

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Ep. 741: Technosignatures

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Ep. 740: Sneaky Stars!

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Ep. 739: Drones!

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Ep. 736: Gift Guide 2024

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Ep. 735: Albert Einstein

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Ep. 734: The Einstein Mission

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Ep. 733: Euclid Of Alexandria

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Ep. 732: The Euclid Telescope

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Ep. 731: Neil Gehrels

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Ep. 729: The James Webb Space Telescope

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Ep. 728: Solar Scientist Eugene Parker

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Ep. 727: Parker Solar Probe

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Ep. 726: Looking Back Over The Summer

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Ep. 173: Herschel Space Observatory - REMASTER

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Ep. 172: William Herschel - REMASTER

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Ep. 88 - The Hubble Space Telescope - REMASTER

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Ep. 162: Edwin Hubble - REMASTER

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Ep. 219 - Planck Mission - REMASTER

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Ep. 218 REMASTER - Max Plank

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Bonus Content: The week of too much news

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Ep. 725: Looking Ahead

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Ep. 724: Summer (Science & Sci Fi) Reads

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Ep. 723: Exoplanets by the Numbers

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Ep. 722: Weather on Exoplanets

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Ep. 721: Rogue Planets

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Ep. 720: Galaxy Series - Elliptical Galaxies

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Ep. 719: Galaxy Series - Spiral Galaxies

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Ep. 718: Galaxy Series - Dwarf Galaxies

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Ep. 717: Understanding the Ages of Distant Cosmic Objects

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Ep. 716 - The God**** Particle - Remembering Peter Higgs

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Ep. 715: Total Eclipse of the Science: Experiments During the Eclipse

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Ep. 714: Orbital Resonances

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Ep. 713: Solar System Volcanoes

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Ep. 712: How Peer Review Fails

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Ep. 711: NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC)

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Ep. 710: NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Program

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Ep. 709: Space Weapons

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Ep. 708: What Goes Into Sample Return Missions From Asteroids & Comets?