Pale Blue Pod

Happy 2026, look at that horse! Moiya and Connie go back in time this week to the earliest moments of the universe to see what the first things were. 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...

Moiya and Connie talk about the long-term fate of the universe, beyond the last stars and last black holes, to the random quantum miracles that could restart the universe anew. 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&nbs...

Moiya tells Connie about astronomy's practical contributions to society. What's said in this episode doesn't necessarily reflect Moiya's true feelings about timekeeping. 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  PayP...

Moiya tells Connie about UV light from its discovery to its uses on Earth. Moiya gets bad news about a beloved actor and Connie comes up with a great circus-related metaphor for our solar system. 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 P...

Moiya and ConStar talk about the life and works of Hipparchus, an ancient Greek astronomer who designed the dreaded stellar magnitude system. 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 Tiny Mat...

Moiya tells ConStar about the biggest, hottest planets in the universe. Listen to find out why astronomers call them Hot Jupiters, how and where they form, and which celebrity Jupes get invited to walk the coveted blue carpet. 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/palebluep...

Moiya and ConStar share what they're grateful for in space. And since you're all space, you should know we're grateful for all of you listeners, too! 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   Find Us On...

Moiya tells ConStar about the telescope that made the most precise map of the Milky Way galaxy ever... and how it made her cry. ConStar gets a little overwhelmed by the size of the universe and Moiya nerds out over a "fun math derivation" she did in grad school. Messages Watch and follow THAT'S A LOT, please! Watch on  YouTube ,  Instagram , and  Tiktok Become a star and join the pa...

Moiya and ConStar love the Moon! They talk to it, they're grateful for it, and they're here to answer all your questions about it. 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 Simple & Clean...

Welcome ConStar to the show!! Moiya leads Connie through a series of games, each more ridiculous than the last. New Host!:  ConStar is a writer, social media expert, and professional nerd. Follow her on IG at  @constar24 . 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/pal...

Happy Halloweek, spooky friends! Moiya celebrates this week by telling her bestie ConStar about big, scary monsters out in space. Vampires, ghosts, and krakens, oh my! Guest Star:  ConStar is a writer, social media expert, and professional nerd. Follow her on IG at @constar24 . Messages Watch and follow THAT'S A LOT, please! Watch on  YouTube ,  Instagram , and  Tiktok Become a...

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...