You've probably heard the phrase "Let sleeping dogs lie," but have you heard the phrase "Let sleeping black holes wake up"? In today's live recording, Fraser & Pamela look at all the ways to black holes wake up & attack their surroundings. 2pm E / 11am P / 1900 UTC youtube.com/live/PpZRjII...

Monday! Monday! Monday! Our universe is filled with sleeping monsters & sometimes they wake up hungry. In this episode, we take a look at the science behind how and why black holes of all sizes can go from nothing to the triggers of massive high-energy power release. youtube.com/live/PpZRjII...

Can you do us a favor? If you like our podcast, can you leave us a review wherever you are listening? In the age of the algorithm, this really really helps our show grow.

Sometimes it's nice to dream about an asteroid or comet hitting Earth. In today's Astronomy Cast, Fraser & Pamela consider the different factors to consider when attacking a planet with an asteroid or comet. Catch it live at 11am Vancouver / 2pm Boston / 7pm London on youtube.com/live/sIVunut...

LIVE: #779 Milankovitch Cycles The Earth's orbit, tilt, and other physical attributes aren't quite as constant as you might think! Come learn how long-term changes do and don't affect our climate. Recording live at 2pm Boston / 11am Vancouver / 7pm London youtu.be/rTFbrCIkrfU

Want to hear your name on Astronomy Cast? Join our Patreon at the $10/month level or higher! To be fair, Pamela missed out on phonics, so correct pronunciation isn't guaranteed. Join to hear her mispronounces your name? That is a recommended strategy, actually. patreon.com/AstronomyCast

This week, @fcain.universetoday.com & @starstryder.space take on Dyson Swarms. Some say they'll solve global warming & the energy crisis. Others look for them as signs of alien civs. These theoretical satellite swarms could be the future (but probably aren't). youtube.com/live/cySk8O0...

Why are stars sphere-ish? Why do blackholes not eat everything? Why do pulsating stars pulsate? It all comes down to Eddington. In today's ep, @fcain.universetoday.com & @starstryder.space look at the Edditngton Limit. Live at 2pm Boston / 7pm London / 11am Vancouver. youtube.com/live/uijiic8...

Why is the universe dominated by Matter? This is the question Fraser and Pamela take on in today's live recording: youtu.be/kGY4t683Xro Join us at 2pm Boston / 7pm London / 11am Vancouver

In this Live Astronomy Cast episode, Fraser and Pamela take a look at the Hydrogen 21-cm line's out-of-proportion awesomeness. youtube.com/live/2uvcumU...

Happy #Podcast day, everyone! It is arguable that humanity now has the technological ability to live on Mars. It would be done at enormous expense & sacrifice, and there are some tricky problems we haven’t solved yet. Although we could live on Mars, should we? Now out wherever you get podcasts.

We're going live on a weird day and at a weird time because Fraser is travelling to UTC+7 while Pamela stays at UTC-6. Come be in the science. Twitch.tv/CosmoQuestX or whatever is live on YouTube.com/@AstronomyCast

Fraser is gearing up to travel, so we're recording RIGHT NOW!!! How many episodes will we record? No idea. What will we record? Many things. This is all @fcain.universetoday.com & @starstryder.space know! Join us on twitch.tv/CosmoQuestX or check out whatever is live on Youtube.com/@AstronomyCast

ep 770 Records today! All because we can launch humans toward Mars, should we? @fcain.universetoday.com & @starstryder.space discuss in this live recording at 2pm EDT / 12pm PDT / 7pm GMT. www.youtube.com/live/14QKJkt...

Happy new podcast day! @fcain.universetoday.com & @starstryder.space are recording in 2 hours, and our newest edited podcast comes out an hour later! Join our patreon to get ad-free everything! patreon.com/AstronomyCast youtube.com/live/Oi72aaD...

Coming at you on a special day due to travel. Starting in 50min. youtube.com/live/kXkqLQ1...

Info on our server woes. We were dying beneath bots & scrapers, so we turned on free Cloudflare. That helped, but we were still getting hammered by ... China. In the mix of regular reboots, our database decided it was just done (same, really), & wouldn't come back after a force stop.

We are back up. Thanks for your patience.

Our server has decided it can't even, by which we mean, we can ssh in, but nothing can get out (except the files we just sftp'd. Rebuilding is about to occur. The server is dead. Long live the server (with a bit of delay).

Rockets keep effecting the environment in new and weird ways. Find out more in this live recording of Astronomy Cast. We're going live with @fcain.universetoday.com & @starstryder.space in 15min youtube.com/live/2NupNyO...

Tomorrow is new podcast day, everyone! And... if you're a Patreon subscriber at any level, new podcast day came a day early! Get ready for Episode 764: Cleared for Launch!

Although we do wonder (worry?), is it only 3?

This week's Live Recording is TODAY. No, this isn't normal, but Pamela was eaten by a proposal, and needed cut free Red Ridinghood style. (Not really, but that would be a more interesting story.) NEW EPISODE: 2pm E / 11am P www.youtube.com/live/4GhRypm...

The Good News: Our latest episode is life on @libsyn.com The Bad News: Our website keeps falling over in the face of bots scanning our site. We're going to set up @cloudflare.social ...

We're baaack! Episode 763 starts in 10 with a deep dive into all we know and how we know it about Comet I3/Atlas. www.youtube.com/live/op5hkKF...

Pamela is on Twitch.tv/CosmoQuestX updating our website as we prepare for season 19. Skinny jeans are back in style and hopefully so are we. Come learn about what episodes we have planned and make your web dev opinions known.

Next Monday, we return with a live recording of Episode 763 as we start season 19. Join us as we talk about interstellar objects, including that its-not-aliens invader, comet 3I/ATLAS. youtube.com/live/op5hkKF...

We don't generally share the auto generated images from Patreon but 1) we're trying to post more, and 2) ZOMG. Read the entire post on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/its-co...

Starting in 1 hour! $5 and up Patrons have Office Hours today with @starstryder . Link is available at patreon.com/AstronomyCast and on Discord.

We're recording WEDNESDAY this week: There is an ongoing debate on where NASA should go net with humans: to the Moon or Mars. (Or maybe and asteroid or oe of Mars moons). Let's discuss the reasons for each of these worlds www.youtube.com/live/UTCFrv-...

Ready for our live recording? @fcain.universetoday.com & @StarStryder are going live with episode 747: Rogue Planets www.youtube.com/live/evnwMG8...

NO LIVE RECORDING TODAY. @fcain.universetoday.com is working on Universe Today. Once that source of all space news is up and healthy, we'll let you know when we'll be recording. For now, @starstryder.space is hanging out on twitch.tv/CosmoQuestX. Have AC topic ideas? Let her know!

Join us at a weird time for weird science. Recording now! youtube.com/live/i4SjpJT...

Hi everyone. This is our last post on Twitter under the current regime. If things change, we will return. For now, look for us where the skies are blue as astronomycast dot com

We are now verified as astronomycast.com!

The rescheduled episode we had planned for today is getting blown away by the storm hitting the Puget Sound region of the Northwest. (Which I had originally typed as Northwet, which is exceedingly accurate. Double-feature will happen Monday.

NOTE: Due to Pamela Having a (found) family emergency, we needed to move today's live recording to Wednesday. Ep 735 Albert Einstein Wednesday 2pm E / 11am P youtube.com/live/15sOxk6...

We are 20 minutes away from going live with this week's @astronomycast.bsky.social ! Ep 732: The Euclid Telescope youtube.com/live/hGHhhcH... Come meet the young space telescope named after one of the OG Men of Mathematics.

Starting sooon... This week's special Tuesday recording of Astronomy Cast. We're looking at the Swift telescopes multiwavelength science. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXEO...

Happy #podcast day, everyone! Ep 428 is live! Catch Fraser & @starstryder.bsky.social talking about the delightful Eugene Parker, namesake of the @ParkerSolar Probe. Listen: astronomycast.com Or subscribe wherever you get podcasts!

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #280,194!

Let's look into the Sun with Parker Solar Probe! This week, Fraser Cain & @starstryder.bsky.social look at the first 6 years of this mission's explorations of the Sun & Venus, and look ahead to what remains in its last planned year of exploration. 2pm EDT / 11am PDT www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPSU...

We are 20minutes from the start of Season 18! Join Fraser Cain & @starstryder.bsky.social as we look back at this super weird summer.

Summer Hiatus is over! Our first episode of season 18 is coming at you next Monday on our YouTube. We'll look at the surreally fated Starliner mission, maybe Polaris Dawn, & so many cool & weird science things that happened over the summer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GTv...

PODCAST: astronomycast.com/2024/02/ep-7... The amount of science we can deploy to another planet can’t compare with the vast science labs we have on Earth. That’s why more missions are for a sample return, bringing pieces of worlds back to Earth, where we study them with proper equipment. 🧪 🛰️ 🔭 ⚒️ 👩‍🔬

PODCAST: www.astronomycast.com/2024/02/ep-7... You might be surprised to learn that China launches almost as many rockets as the US. They’ve got their own space exploration program that could soon bring humans to the surface of the Moon. Here's a brief overview of China’s space exploration plans. 🛰️

Join us for Astronomy Cast episode 707: What Goes Into Sample Return Missions for the Moon and Mars?, live on YouTube Monday at 19:00 UTC (14:00 Eastern, 11:00 Pacific) at youtube.com/live/ws9kQ_v... hosted by Fraser Cain and @starstryder.bsky.social 🧪 🛰️ 🔭 ⚒️ 👩‍🔬

Join us for Astronomy Cast episode 706: China's Space Program, live on YouTube Monday at 19:00 UTC (14:00 Eastern, 11:00 Pacific) at youtube.com/live/RfV2xMy... hosted by Fraser Cain and @starstryder.bsky.social 🧪 🛰️ 🔭 👩‍🔬

PODCAST: astronomycast.com/2024/01/ep-7... NASA's Juno spacecraft has completed dozens of flybys of Jupiter. Now it’s focusing in on Io, sending home images of the tiny volcanic world from just 1,500 km away. And the best is yet to come. 🧪 🛰️ 🔭 👩‍🔬

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