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Supernovae are going to come up in next week's episode, so enjoy this refresher on how and why stars explode! Messages Watch and follow THAT'S A LOT, please! Watch on  YouTube ,  Instagram , and  Tiktok Become a star and join the patreon at  patreon.com/palebluepod ! Go supernova and support Pale Blue Pod on  PayPal   Listen to This Guy Sucked every Thursday Find Us O...

Moiya celebrates the pod's 150th episode with a trip down memory lane. She shares her favorite episodes, lessons listeners said they learned, and her plans for the future of the pod! Messages Watch and follow THAT'S A LOT, please! Watch on  YouTube ,  Instagram , and  Tiktok Become a star and join the patreon at  patreon.com/palebluepod ! Go supernova and support Pale Blue Pod...

Spooky Season is here! And Brandon is helping Moiya pick the scariest exoplanet. From hottest to coldest, darkest to glassiest, listen to find out which planets you should absolutely NOT book for your next vacation. Guest Star:  Brandon Grugle is a sound designer, composer, and podcaster who leads production at Multitude. He's hard to find online, but listen to his show Join the Party ! Messa...

Moiya and Deboki hop in the time machine to visit interesting events that happened this week in astronomy history. They witness moons being discovered, dates disappearing from the calendar, and NASA opening its doors for the first time. Guest Star:  Dr. Deboki Chakravarti is a trained biomedical engineer who co-hosts the Tiny Matters podcast! Messages Watch and follow THAT'S A LOT, please! Wa...

Moiya tells Maria about collisions in space at different scales, from photons to galaxies. Maria points out how the universe is one big reality tv show. Guest Star:  Maria DeCotis is a comedian, writer, and actor. Follow her online at @mariadecotis Messages Watch and follow THAT'S A LOT, please! Watch on  YouTube ,  Instagram , and  Tiktok Join the Multicrew at  multitudes...

Moiya helps Noah plan out his nighttime observing for the next six months. Noah finds out what a supermoon is and Moiya is delighted to learn they both have the same favorite holiday. Guest Star:  Noah McTier is a civil engineering student and Moiya's brother Messages Watch and follow THAT'S A LOT, please! Watch on  YouTube ,  Instagram , and  Tiktok Join the Multicrew at multi...

Moiya tells Julia about the history of telescopes, from ancient Arabic reading stones to mirrors that unfold in space like origami. Then the two imagine their own telescope mission for the future, pending funding... Guest Star:  Julia Schifini is a sound designer, voice actor, and podcaster who's worked on Spirits , Join the Party , and Primordial Deep . Messages Watch and follow THAT'S A LOT...

Moiya invites Rory to talk about his black hole-inspired symphony composition and explain how he got musical instruments to sound like event horizons and gravitational time dilation. This episode features a recorded performance by the Yale Symphony Orchestra. Guest Star:  Rory Bricca is a musician, conductor, and composer of Active Galactic Nuclei Messages Watch and follow THAT'S A LOT, pleas...

Dr. Moiya's Milky Way book is three years old! She celebrated with a public lecture where she talked about milky way myths, galaxy formation, stellar chemistry, black holes, and the galaxy's courtship of nearby Andromeda. Thanks to Lectures on Tap for hosting! Correction: The Milky Way is moving at about 200,000 miles per hour, not per second. Oops! Messages Watch and follow THAT'S A LOT, please!...

Moiya and Sean watched the stress-fueled cinematic stunner, Sunshine. They'll tell you what peeved them and thieved their hearts, then rate the movie out of 15 suns. Guest Star:  Sean Crespo is an actor, writer, comedian, and half of Space Beach Productions . He's also Moiya's friend and co-star in That's A Lot . Follow Sean on IG @crespoop Messages Watch and follow THAT'S A LOT, please! Watc...

Moiya and Caroline talk about the observatory that detected the first gravitational waves, letting us study the universe using something other than light for the first time ever in human history! Guest Star:  Caroline D'Angelo is an astronomer-turned-comedian. Follow her on IG @astronomer625 Messages Become a star and join the patreon at  patreon.com/palebluepod ! Go supernova and suppor...

This week, Moiya welcomes Grace, who has lots of thoughts on Star Trek and colonization. They discuss the dangers of long-term space travel, Fermi's paradox, the overview effect, and what it means to be human. Guest Star:  Grace Johnson is a comedian based in NYC. Follow her on IG @criticalgracetheory Messages Become a star and join the patreon at  patreon.com/palebluepod ! Go supernova...

Saddle up your spaceships! Moiya and Corey are riding in to rate and review the cult classic show Firefly. Will they decide it was worth a second season? Guest Star:  Corey Rindler is a comedian and co-host of Bathtub Season . Follow him on IG @thefinalcorey Messages Become a star and join the patreon at  patreon.com/palebluepod ! Go supernova and support Pale Blue Pod on  PayPal Ge...

Moiya tells Amanda about some recent astronomy stories, from showboating comets to the future of rocket launches, it's all in honor of the people's princess, Moo Deng. Guest Star:  Amanda McLoughlin is the CEO of Multitude Productions, where she cohosts several podcasts and proves that media companies don't have to suck. Her IG is @shessomickey Messages Become a star and join the patreon at&n...

Moiya asks Nia about her new book exploring the intersection of art and science. They talk about artistic inspiration, shifting perspectives, Black culture, and so much more. Guest Star:  Dr. Nia Imara is a painter, astronomer, and author of Painting the Cosmos . Follow Nia on IG @drniaimara Messages Become a star and join the patreon at  patreon.com/palebluepod ! Go supernova and suppor...

Moiya tells Ann about the oldest light in the universe and how it's used to study the Big Bang. Ann tells Moiya about the value of scientific exploration. From pigeon poop to post-it notes, the CMB shines above us all. Guest Star:  Ann Bartow is a comedian, formerly a lawyer. Find her on Bluesky at annbartow.bsky.social Messages Become a star and join the patreon at  patreon.com/paleblue...

Moiya asks AJ to explain how law works in space. Like, who owns it? Who can send things there? Can you get away with draining your wife's bank account if you're above the atmosphere? Listen here for hot tips to plan your next space heist! Guest Star:  AJ Link is a space lawyer and professor of space law at Howard University. He says to google him haha! Messages Become a star and join the patr...

Moiya and Erika talk about the weirdest things in the universe and what it's like to explain them in a book. They cover secret book deals, pasta inside stars, and Erika's hopes for the future of humanity. Guest Star:  Dr. Erika Hamden is an astrophysicist and author of Weird Universe . Follow her and watch her science videos at erika.hamden Messages Become a star and join the patreon at ...

Moiya and Claire watched the old bond film Moonraker and now they need to rate it. Tune in to hear their thoughts on villain character arcs, space laser fights, and runaway funiculars. Guest Star:  Dr. Claire Aubin is a historian and host of This Guy Sucked . Follow her online at ceaubin Messages Become a star and join the patreon at  patreon.com/palebluepod ! Go supernova and support Pa...

Moiya and Sam talk about the smallest things in space, from the littlest planet to wee comet pieces to the tiny atoms that make up the whole universe. Guest Star:  Dr. Sam Jones , biomedical scientist, is a writer, producer, and cohost of Tiny Matters , a general science podcast from the American Chemical Society Messages Become a star and join the patreon at  patreon.com/palebluepod ! G...

Moiya and J talk about art pieces inspired by space and the methods astronomers use to turn their data into stunning visualizations. Guest Star:  J Wright is an artist. Follow them on bluesky @JWX Messages Become a star and join the patreon at  patreon.com/palebluepod ! Go supernova and support Pale Blue Pod on  PayPal Get your  Pale Blue Pod Merch   Listen to Wow if True...

Moiya tells fellow internet experts Amanda and Isabel about a nerdy corner of the web they've never seen before: prank astronomy papers! They do an elimination bracket to determine the best paper, and learn some fundamental truths about humor on the way. Guest Stars:  Isabel J. Kim is a fiction writer, podcaster and real life attorney! Find her work at isabel.kim Amanda Silberling is an inter...

Moiya reminisces about a tour at NASA to see how they clean and test telescopes, where she got to sit down with a scientist who works behind the scenes on NASA missions. Guest Star:  Eric Silver is a writer, podcaster, and renowned game master. Follow him online @el_silvero and see his work at ericsilver.work Dr. Knicole Colón is an Operations Project Scientist at NASA Goddard Messages Become...

Moiya and Corinne honor the man who inspired the podcast's name: Carl Sagan! Corinne explains how Sagan spilled government secrets to get a job and Moiya reveals the mixed reactions to his science communication work. Messages Become a star and join the patreon at  patreon.com/palebluepod ! Go supernova and support Pale Blue Pod on  PayPal Get your  Pale Blue Pod Merch   Find Us...

Moiya and Keenan discuss what Mesoamerican cultures like the Aztecs and Maya knew about astronomy, from creation myths to complex calendars. They also talk about the state of astronomy research in Central America today. Guest Star:  Keenan Steiner is a standup comedian and host of Comedian Behavioral Therapy . Follow him online @keenanstandup or and check out his upcoming shows ! Messages Bec...