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The Star Spot

The astronomy and space exploration podcast

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Episode 185: Did a Supernova Cause a Mass Extinction?, with Brian Fields

Episode 185: Did a Supernova Cause a Mass Extinction?, with Brian Fields

Feature Guest: Brian Fields By now we are all familiar with the theory that an asteroid brought to an end the age of the... Read more

28 Sep 2020

41mins

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Episode 184: The Milky Way's First Fast Radio Burst, with Sandro Mereghetti

Episode 184: The Milky Way's First Fast Radio Burst, with Sandro Mereghetti

Feature Guest: Sandro Mereghetti Fast radio bursts are a new mystery in astronomy. These highly energetic events of unkn... Read more

14 Sep 2020

41mins

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Episode 183: COVID-19 Meets the NASA Space Apps Challenge, with James Slifierz

Episode 183: COVID-19 Meets the NASA Space Apps Challenge, with James Slifierz

Feature Guest: James Slifierz The NASA Space Apps Challenge is a feverish annual hackathon engaging teams of coders, sci... Read more

25 May 2020

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Episode 182: Planet Nine or Black Hole One, with Jakub Scholtz

Episode 182: Planet Nine or Black Hole One, with Jakub Scholtz

Feature Guest: Jakub Scholtz We’ve long believed that membership in the solar system’s planetary family was limited to t... Read more

11 May 2020

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Episode 181: Reports of Betelgeuse’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated, with Emily Levesque

Feature Guest: Emily Levesque In December 2019, amateur and professional astronomers held their breath as the red superg... Read more

27 Apr 2020

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Episode 180: Wormholes through Space and Time, with John Cramer

Episode 180: Wormholes through Space and Time, with John Cramer

Feature Guest: John G. Cramer They are the stuff of science fiction, but wormholes are also the subject of intense scien... Read more

6 Apr 2020

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Episode 179: Dreams of Floating Cities, with Geoffrey Landis

Episode 179: Dreams of Floating Cities, with Geoffrey Landis

Feature Guest: Geoffrey A. Landis When we think of terraforming, we probably envision turning the Red Planet blue. But M... Read more

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Episode 178 Sibling Rivalry at the Centre of the Galaxy, with Smadar Naoz

Episode 178 Sibling Rivalry at the Centre of the Galaxy, with Smadar Naoz

Feature Guest: Smadar Naoz We’ve long known that most galaxies contain at their core a supermassive black hole that can ... Read more

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Episode 177: The Case of the Missing Dark Matter, with Guo Chi

Episode 177: The Case of the Missing Dark Matter, with Guo Chi

Feature Guest: Guo Qi Dark matter vastly overshadows ordinary matter in our universe. Wherever astronomers turn their te... Read more

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Episode 176: Second Genesis, with Jay Melosh

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