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Walkabout the Galaxy — 367 episodes

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1

Europa's Disappearing Plumes

2

Second Generation Black Hole Mergers and Solar System Chaos

3

Whacky Black Hole Collisions and Strange Uranian Rings

4

Little Plutino Has An Atmosphere and Making Sense of Saturn

5

Superkilonova and Artemis II Recap

6

A Whisper of a Hint of Primordial Black Holes plus Earth BLOBs

7

Supermassive Black Holes Supersoaking Other Galaxies

8

Snowball Earth was Cold and Scary and the Milky Way Magnetic Field is a Mess

9

Planetary Nebulae and Active Asteroids Get a Closer Look

10

A Dark Universe Unveiled

11

Crazy Spinners in the Asteroid Belt and S8 Tension

12

Cosmic Rays from Everywhere and Stringy Ancient Galaxies

13

Interstellar Star Scars and Poop on Mars

14

Gravothermalizing and Baby Black Holes

15

An Ancient Moon of Mars?

16

Why Is There A Universe At All?

17

The Amazing and Crazy Story of Gemini and Jumbo Black Holes

18

Rings Around a Comet, Betelbuddy, and Odd Jupiter Moons

19

Adaptive LIGO and a New Look at an Old Crater

20

Einstein Cross Reveals Dark Matter and a Life-y Mars Rock

21

Exo-Pluto Debris in Our Solar System and Axions Galore

22

Europa Clipper Report from Mars and ATLAS 3I Update from DragonCon 2025

23

Trappist-1, ESCAPADE, and Axions

24

Weird Black Hole Blazar and Water Ice Glaciers on Mars

25

Forbidden Black Hole Merger and Chaos on Europa

26

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS is Out Of This World

27

Vera Rubin Observatory Sets Sights on the Universe

28

Supernova Hazards and Cloudy With a Chance of Sand

29

Cool Planetary Cores and Lava Fountains Galore

30

The End of the Universe As We Know It and We Feel Fine

31

A Slurping Black Hole and a Win for the Streaming Instability

32

Vesta Chip Off the Old Block and a Nearby Dark Molecular Cloud

33

Ultralight Dark Matter and Peanut Asteroid Hot Take

34

Hot Takes on Water on Earth and Black Hole Singularities

35

Weird Convection on Venus and a Wrinkle in the Lambda Cold Dark Matter Model

36

Supernovas and Mass Extinctions

37

Life on Hycean Worlds, Interstellar Debris, and Dark Matter Survey

38

Are We Inside a Black Hole?

39

Oort Cloud Spiral, the Color of Mars, and a New Dwarf Galaxy

40

Did You Quipu?

41

Hubble Tension Won't Go Away But Some Exoplanets Do

42

Exocomets, Io, and the Great Dimming of T Tauri

43

Little Red Dots and Big Black Holes

44

Kiss and Capture for Pluto and Charon and Dark Energy Remains Dark

45

Quasi Particles, Pluto's Moons, and Cosmic Rays

46

Mysterious Dark Comets

47

Making Big Blobs is Hard

48

Neutrino Fog and the Hunt for Dark Matter

49

Not All Supernovae Are Created Equal

50

Is There Another Belt of Comets?

51

Trojan Asteroids Everywhere

52

Basin Instinct - Cosmological Structure and Edible Asteroids

53

OG Top Goes to Europa

54

Back in Black Holes

55

Black Hole Spindown Chirp and a 9-Day Geologic Rumble

56

Recent Lunar Volcanic Activity and the Metallicity Cliff

57

Adventures in Space the Cady Way

58

Ocean World Mimas and the JUICE Slingshot

59

Barney the Dinosaur Killer from Outer Space and Water Inside Mars

60

The Fermi Paradox - Are We Truly Alone?

61

Chemical Whispers of Life on Mars

62

Lunar Caves for Future Habitation

63

Dark Matter, Deuterons, and a Mixed-Up Protoplanetary Disk

64

Cygnus X-3 and a Naked-Eye Nova

65

Primordial Black Holes Make the Galaxy Go 'Round

66

Full Circle to the Origins of Carbon and Exotic Gravity

67

Volcanic Activity on Venus RIGHT NOW!

68

Watery Erigone and Rogue Stars in the Milky Way

69

Dyson Spheres and a Molten Planet

70

The Low Down on Big G and the Young Moon of Dinkinesh

71

Dark Matter Wins Again

72

Surprises from Bennu and the Milky Way

73

The Dark Ages of the Universe

74

A Nova Visible this Year?

75

Psyche Revisited and Two Giant Black Holes

76

The Tiniest Ocean World and the Brightest Quasar

77

Space Oddities in the Solar System

78

When Will We Walk on Mars?

79

Large Cosmological Structures and JWST Spies a Binary TNO

80

Trojan Mysteries and Titan Snowbergs

81

Agents of Chaos and Iron Snow

82

Globular Clusters and Life in Enceladus

83

Pluto Cryovolcano and a Cosmological Supervoid

84

Mysterious Cosmic Ray and Martian Airglow

85

Ethical Dilemmas in Space Exploration

86

The Origin of Supermassive Black Holes

87

Dinky and the S8 Tension

88

The Surprising Interiors of Mars and Venus

89

Detecting ETs and Intergalactic Baryons

90

Neutron Star Quakes and the Streaming Instability

91

Pangaea Ultima, Antimatter Gravity, and the Evection Resonance

92

Short Take: Asteroid Sample and Dark Matter Hopes

93

Trouble in the Universe: El Gordo and Dinky

94

Ho'oleilana and Weird Spots on Mercury

95

Water in the Solar System - Dragoncon 2023

96

Diamonds, Granite, and Hubble Tension

97

The Sun Bounces Gamma Rays and a Muon Surprise

98

Rogue Planets Galore and the Age of the Universe

99

Dark Stars and Water in Hot Places

100

X-Rays from Mercury and a Different Kind of Gravitational Hole

101

The Rumble in the Universe

102

All Things Dark: Matter, Energy, and More

103

Earth's Pebble Accretion and the Boring Billion

104

Supernovae Near and Far

105

Is the Universe Left or Right-Handed?

106

Scary Things That Can Happen To Planets

107

Crazy Rings, Watery Moons, and Ancient Black Holes

108

The Impact of Impacts on Water on Mars

109

Live at Nerd Nite with the Moon, JUICE, and M87 Black Hole

110

MegaCon 2023 and JWST

111

Oumuamua Explained and Dark Matter Near Black Holes

112

Active Volcanism on Venus!

113

It's About Time!

114

Sweet Europa Tail

115

Runaway Black Holes and Certified Organic Asteroids

116

Whacky Water and Weird Rings

117

The Trouble with Neutrinos and Other Mysteries

118

The Tiniest Wormhole

119

The Super Earth Assembly Line

120

On Top of Nuclear Fusion

121

All About STEVE and GRBs

122

Trojans and Axions

123

Up, Up, and Away

124

Chasing Geotail and Martian Impacts

125

Astroquarks 300!

126

Life on Mars Killed Life on Mars

127

Pop III!

128

Payback for Chicxulub!

129

Boom: DART, Volcanoes, and Supernovae

130

DragonCon 2022: To the Moon with Artemis and More

131

Water Worlds at Distant Suns

132

Ancient Astronomers and Ancient Lunar Impacts

133

Strange Lightning and the Youngest Planet

134

Is There Something Wrong with the Standard Model?

135

The Edges of Space, the Solar System, and the Universe

136

JWST and the Circle of Life of Stars

137

Fly Me to the Moon Again and Again

138

Two Odd Balls: Charon and Arrokoth

139

Noxious Fumes from Stars and Moons

140

The Galactic Gamma Ray Background from Pulsars

141

Space Haboobs and Martian Haboobs

142

Yes MegaCon There IS a Black Hole

143

Lunar Plants and Micronovae

144

Gravitational Redshift and Sci-Fi Body and Time Shifts

145

Mapping the Early Universe in HD

146

Planetary Decadal Survey with Almost no Uranus Jokes

147

The Cosmic Significance of Tiny Things

148

The Sounds of Mars and the Lights of the Earliest Stars

149

Ultralight Dark Matter

150

All the Light in the Universe

151

When Galaxy Clusters Collide

152

How Smart Is Your Planet?

153

Psyche-ology and Generally Crazy Relativity

154

Hot Fusion and Crashing Satellites

155

A Bouncy Universe

156

IWOW

157

The Local Solar Bubble and Another Dusty Star

158

Lagrange Points Everywhere

159

Q-Balls!

160

Eggshell Planets and the Inexorable Growth of Black Holes

161

JWST and the Era of Reionization

162

Strange Atoms and Jupiter's Deep Atmosphere

163

Perpendicular Planets and a Chip Off the Old Moon

164

Galactic Protoclusters and the Heat of Information

165

Sterile Neutrinos and True Polar Wander

166

A World That's Out Of This Galaxy

167

Captain Kirk Goes to Space and Other Oddities

168

Binaries Galore

169

Centaurs and Rocky Clouds

170

The Psychohistory of Astroquarks

171

Taking the Measure of the Universe with Quasars

172

The Mind Blowing Wave Particle Duality of Light

173

Odd Galaxies and Odder Planets

174

Hycean Worlds and Nudging Asteroids

175

Saturn's Chewy Center and the Milky Way's Broken Arm

176

The Missing Astroquark

177

Pairs of Bosons, Photons, and Asteroids

178

Exomoons and Inside Mars

179

The Cosmological Lithium Problem

180

Rogue Planets, Gravitational Waves, and Life in Enceladus

181

Things that Blow. And Clocks.

182

Stars That Blink

183

The Cosmological Principle

184

Back to Venus with Several Rants

185

How the Universe has Aged

186

Of Cosmic Rays and Neptune's Wandering Ways

187

Ten Things I Hate About Neutrinos

188

Surprises at the Centers of Things

189

A Whirl of Neutron Stars

190

There Are Five Lights!

191

The Extra Glow at the Heart of the Milky Way

192

You Can't Be Darth Serious

193

The Fifth Element

194

Space The Final Frontier

195

Warp Drive!

196

Deep Dive Into a Globular Cluster

197

If a Spacecraft Lands on an Empty Planet, Does it Make a Sound?

198

Hairy Black Holes

199

The Surprising Science of Space Dirt

200

Perseverance, Cache Me While You Can!

201

The Dark and Distant Rumbles of Spacetime

202

Ancient Planets and Bumblebee Gravity

203

Meet Pillownaut Heather Archuletta

204

It's Not That Dark After All

205

Taking the Measure of the Milky Way

206

Something Old, Something Blue

207

The Birth of a Magnetar

208

We Saw a Magnetar Burp!

209

OMG The Moon!

210

Asteroid Bennu Gets TAGged!

211

The Airing of Grievances!

212

Jerk, Snap, Crackle, Pop

213

It's a Small Waterworld

214

A Deep Dive into Venus's Atmosphere

215

Mary Robinette Kowal

216

Big Black Holes and Tiny Water Worlds

217

Pressures Great and Small

218

Ceres is a Planet with Water!

219

The One With All The Fields

220

Strange Neutrinos and the Bucket Brigade

221

One Mystery Solved Another Mystery Deepens

222

The Great Wall of Galaxies

223

Things That Go Bump in the Dark

224

The 200th One

225

Of Magnetars and Mars

226

Planet Formation Caught in the Act

227

The Universe May Be Empty But We Are Together

228

A Backyard Black Hole

229

Is The Sun a Sunlike Star

230

The Quark with a Fork

231

When You Wish Upon a Neutrino

232

Psyche Out: Metal Asteroids and an Irregular Universe

233

Alien Life and Star Trek Diseases

234

The Importance of Being Gassy

235

A Pulsating Star and a Salty Asteroid

236

It's That Time of the Solar Cycle

237

Gravitational Waves Rumbling Through the Universe

238

All The Galaxy's a Stage And We Are Merely Astroquarks

239

Things That Go Burst in the Night

240

Sexaquark!

241

The Mysterious Case of the Dragging Frame

242

The Asteroid versus the Volcanoes

243

Lucy, TESS, and the Dark Energy Mess

244

Hashtag Fundamental

245

Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse

246

Hot Blobs and Magnetic Spots

247

Jim the Asteroid Licker

248

Would You Like Your Chunky Space with a Swirl?

249

Antimatter and Wormholes

250

When a Giant Black Hole Blows a Lot of Gas

251

Astroquark Soup

252

The Vibration Dance and the Mole Shimmy

253

Bananas About Brown Dwarfs

254

Lost in Space: Rogue Planets and the Intergalactic Web

255

I've Got My Eyeball Planet on You

256

The One From Geneva

257

Moon Water and Galaxy Bubbles

258

The Podcast of Dorian Hurricane

259

Starforker

260

Will the Sun Burp When it Eats the Earth?

261

When Light Climbs Out of a Hole

262

Where Silence Has Lease

263

The Black Hole Middle Class

264

Dragonfly Me to the Moon of Saturn

265

Left and Right in the Universe

266

The Universe is Running Hot and Cold

267

Forbidden Planets

268

All About Bob

269

Moon Quakes and Venus Shakes

270

Impacts Large and Small and Very Large

271

Is Mars Farting or Burping?

272

I Can See Your Black Hole From Here

273

There are Dark Forces at Work in the Universe

274

Bennu is Puking Asteroid Pebbles

275

Too Early to the Party: Trek, The Orville, and Aliens

276

The One with Joe Haldeman

277

Are You Positive That's North?

278

To Seek Out and Explore

279

Galaxy, Right Ahead!

280

The Year of the Astroquark

281

2018 Year in Review with Top Quark Trivia

282

Jim Goes Off on Fahrenheit

283

Dark Matter Hurricane

284

It's All About U

285

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Alien Sex

286

Fireballs and Penitentes

287

Where No Podcast Except This One Has Gone Before

288

Of Goblins and Planets

289

The Big Falcon Episode

290

An Exthwartation of Quarks, or Jupiter's Magnetic Nubbin

291

The One That Should Have Been Sponsored by Starburst

292

When the Moon Hits Your Eye, You Might Get a Little Wet

293

Really Real Actual Water IN Mars. Probably.

294

The Little Neutrino That Could

295

What Goes Around Comes Around

296

Wouldn't You Like to Hayabusa Too?

297

USA to NASA: Save Our Planet!

298

Won't You Be My Neighbor Universe?

299

The Interstellar Interloper and the Ravenous Black Hole

300

Does Mars Have a Chewy Center?

301

Chasing New Horizons with David Grinspoon

302

Danger Astroquarks!

303

I Think I Stepped in Some Dark Matter

304

For Stephen Hawking

305

Magnetic Ink Blot Test in Space

306

Print Me a Space Base, Please

307

The One Sponsored by Space Sex

308

I Could Swear I Left My Satellite in Orbit!

309

The Old Stars Tell Tales

310

The One About Bunburra Rockhole

311

A Very Low Rumble in Space

312

2017 - A Great Year for Space

313

Antimatter from your Local Thunderstorm

314

Fly Me To The Moon (of Saturn!)

315

Kronos the Planet Eater

316

Rogue Asteroid!

317

To Kilonova

318

I Left My Communicator on Sigma Iotia!

319

SOFIA, Nobel and Kuiper - What's in a Name?

320

OSIRIS-REx Gets the Gravity Assist and Scores!

321

To Be, Cassini, Or Not To Be

322

Florence and the LIGO Machine

323

Are Those Diamonds on Uranus?

324

Of Eclipses and Starspots

325

Of Zombies, Comets and Kilograms

326

Cold and Hard, not Warm and Fuzzy

327

Going Rogue!

328

Teleport Me to the Great Red Spot!

329

Where No One Has Gone Before

330

Is Planet 9 Lost in Space?

331

Leggo my LIGO!

332

Uranus Gets Bedazzled!

333

Is That Inflation Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?

334

Juno What I Mean!

335

The Solar System is a Bubble in Space

336

The Grand Finale is Finale Here

337

Enceladus is a Little Bit Gassy!

338

That's Quite a Hadron You've Got There!

339

The Great Black Hole Escape

340

Space Dust Keeps Falling on my Head

341

The One About Patrick Stewart

342

Strange New Worlds

343

White Dwarfs and Planetary Nebulae

344

Stripey Buggers

345

A Space Odyssey

346

The Hottest Year in a Row!

347

Walk About the Great Big Group of Stars

348

The Fartological Cycle

349

Three Quarks for JJ Abrams!

350

I Dub Thee Egotron

351

To Boldly Go!

352

Extraterrestrials: Are They a Thing Yet?

353

StarzaniTrekWars!

354

For The World Is Not Hollow

355

The Sun Needs a Red Corvette

356

Earth's Mini-Stalker

357

Black Holes: What Goes In Might Come Out

358

Watching Supernovae with H2O

359

Take Me to Mars (and Back Again!)

360

Supernova Breakout!

361

Nice Model Not So Nice

362

The Babiest Galaxy

363

Attack of the Gravitational Wave

364

Planet 9 From Outer Space!

365

El Nino and the Price of Anchovies

366

Exploring the Kuiper Belt with Alan Stern

367

The Mystery of Mars' Missing Air