Countdown to JWST #1: Finally Ready to Launch?
Here's the first installment of Countdown to JWST, a podcast that will track the mission up to launch (hopefully) later this year. Let's light this c...
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Welcome to Deep Astronomy, a podcast dedicated to helping us understand our place in the universe. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/deepastronomy/support
Was There A First Cause?
Was there a first cause? Can there be a event that started everything? What would such an event look like? In this episode Tony and Charlotte discu...
When An Atheist Met A Catholic Theologian
This episode kicks off what I hope will be a weekly posting for the DA Show. My wife Charlotte is a Catholic theologian and philosopher who has taugh...
A Cautionary Science Tale: BICEP2 and the Perils of the Nobel Prize
Remember all the commotion about the BICEP2 mission back in 2014? Cosmologist had announced the observation of polarized "B-mode" waves that, if conn...
Using Nuclear Power for Deep Space Exploration
It turns out that NASA and others have been thinking about the inefficiencies of using chemical rockets to go to the Moon, Mars and the Outer Planets....
The Apophis Asteroid: Should You Be Worried?
Let's talk about the potentially hazardous asteroid known as Apophis. In April, 2029 this 320 meter rock will get so close that it will pass under th...
Was the Event Horizon Telescope Black Hole Image a Waste of Time?
In this podcast: an essay on whether the effort that went into making the black hole image in the distant galaxy M87 by the Event Horizon Telescope wa...
The Large Millimeter Telescope
This podcast features science and technology from the Large Millimeter Telescope. Our guests Nat DeNigris and David Sanchez will be on hand to discus...
Just How Fast is the Universe Expanding EXACTLY? ...and how do we know this?
We've known since Edwin Hubble's time that the universe has been expanding. What we've only recently learned (like, in the past 10 years or so) is th...
Life in the Universe? We May Be It!
I'm not convinced that life is everywhere in the cosmos. It is entirely possible, based on what we know today, that we are the only life there is. A...