The 365 Days of Astronomy

From May 13, 2026. In today's episode where we look at the Voyager mission's exploration beyond our solar system, the organics Mars Curiosity Rover has discovered, the distribution of planets uncovered by the TESS mission, and how JWST measured the surface of a rocky world 50 light years away!   We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production co...

Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke , two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan who enjoy teaching astronomy classes and showing the public views through their telescopes. actualastronomy@gmail.com In this episode we read some listener emails and discuss our recent observing sessions, sketching and Shane talks about his first experience with the PiFinder.   Observing Last night. It was a nearly f...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voRC5ImEMH4 From Jan 18, 2019. Hosted by Fraser Cain. One of the big mysteries in astronomy is unfolding right before our eyes: fast radio bursts. And now a new Canadian radio telescope has come online, detecting many new bursts, including the second ever seen repeating.     Finally, with the right tools at their disposal, astronomers are going to be able to get to...

Majorana particles! Hosted by Dr. Paul M. Sutter. What does "antimatter" actually mean? Can a particle be its own opposite? What would happen to it, and what does this have to do with a missing scientist? I discuss these questions and more in today's Ask a Spaceman!   Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/pmsutter All episodes: http://www. AskASpaceman.com Watch on YouTube: http://www.youtube.c...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ9GIAGMk2Q Hosted by: Fraser Cain ( @frasercain ) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay ( @CosmoQuest ) Streamed live on May 10, 2026. We continue our ad-hoc miniseries through sci-fi franchises. This week we'll talk about Stargate, worm holes, mind parasites and self-replicating bots. There's a lot to talk about!   This show is supported through people like you on Patreon.com/Ast...

Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( @Nmcanopus ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. travelersinthenight.org From December 2025 & January 2026. Today's 2 topics: - It is possible the object creating the Tunguska event in Russia 1908 which knocked down 80 million trees over an area about twice the size o...

Learn how the Big Dipper can guide you to the North Star and why this famous star pattern has helped travelers navigate for centuries.   "ASTROMAN: the Dark Sky Guardian" is a podcast channel that aims to explore popular science in multiple disciplines and research on interdisciplinary approaches, such as sustainability, dark-sky protection, astrophotography, space exploration, astronomy innovatio...

From April 6, 2020. Tokyo Institute of Technology researchers have published a model that seems to explain Uranus' bizarre tilt - a collision between a young Uranus and a massive ice world that could have both tipped Uranus over, and also formed its rings and its 27 moons in the process.   We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs.  ...

Hosted by our Director, Avivah Yamani! Discover the science behind shooting stars, from meteors and meteor showers to the cosmic debris constantly entering Earth's atmosphere.   We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs.   Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with you...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEZu3pXAFWY Hosted by Fraser Cain. From Jan 31, 2020. In 2006, astronomers spotted the telltale sign of a supernova detonating in the galaxy NGC 1260, located about 240 million light-years away in the constellation of Perseus. As telescopes around the world turned their collective light-gathering power on the expanding explosion designated as SN 2006gy, they realize...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEsLOAJWEo8 Hosted by Tony Darnell. From   May 30, 2025. Join this channel to get access to special content including livestreams! The James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled candidates for the very first stars to shine in the universe. Here is what it found.   We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MqoQOXdQis Hosted by: Fraser Cain ( @frasercain ) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay ( @CosmoQuest ) Streamed live May 4, 2026. Today we continue our mini-series; evaluating the science of various sci-fi franchises. We did Star Wars last week, this week tackle Star Trek. From transporters to warp drives, from phasers to photon torpedos. Let's tackle what Star Trek gets right an...

Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( @Nmcanopus ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. travelersinthenight.org From December 2025. Today's 2 topics: - The Dark Energy Camera on the National Science Foundation's Blanco 4-meter telescope on Cerro Tololo in Chile is taking near Sun twilight images to search...

Scientists at NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, have submitted an unprecedented set of asteroid detections to the IAU Minor Planet Center, including hundreds of distant worlds beyond Neptune and 33 previously unknown near-Earth asteroids. In this podcast, Dr. Mario Juric discusses how the...

From May 6, 2026. In this episode, we're going to be looking back in time at how Dark Matter may have influenced the formation of Supermassive Blackholes, newly catalogued remnants of left over hydrogen, an ancient star found as part of a class observing project, and tales from the launch pad. NBC's "Hubble telescope celebrates 36th anniversary" with Morgan Chesky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke , two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan who enjoy teaching astronomy classes and showing the public views through their telescopes. actualastronomy@gmail.com   Observer's Calendar for May 2026 on Episode 533 of the Actual Astronomy podcast. I'm Chris and joining me is Shane. We are amateur astronomers who love looking up at the night sky and this podcast is...

Paul Hill & Dr. Jenifer "Dr. Dust" Millard host.   Damien Phillips, John Wildridge and Dustin Ruoff produce. May Part 1. A show recorded with the happy campers of Cwmdu. We talk smart scopes, late nights, planetary formation, news on Comet 3I and more on the Hubble tension.   We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs.   Just visit: h...

Cherenkov Radiation! Hosted by Dr. Paul M. Sutter. How can matter ever go faster than light? What happens when it does? Who discovered this, and what is it good for? I discuss these questions and more in today's Ask a Spaceman!   Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/pmsutter All episodes: http://www. AskASpaceman.com Watch on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/PaulMSutter Read a book: https://www...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NcTe-98ZlA Hosted by: Fraser Cain ( @frasercain ) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay ( @CosmoQuest ) Streamed live April 29, 2026. May the fourth be with you! Isn't that what people say on the international holiday known as Star Wars Day? Today we're gonna talk about the science in everyone's favorite sci-fi fantasy stories. Which of it is real, and which is essentially magic?...

Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( @Nmcanopus ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. travelersinthenight.org From November & December 2025. Today's 2 topics: - On a busy night of asteroid hunting with the 90 inch, University of Arizona's Steward Observatory Bok telescope on Kitt Peak in Arizona, my Cata...

Hosted by Avivah Yamani, our Director. It's time for a Blue Moon this year! And observers also have the chance to enjoy planetary dances with the Moon and meteor showers!   We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs.   Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your fri...

From April 30, 2026. As commercial space becomes a more and more mature industry, we're seeing new needs emerge. Front and the center is the need for someone - or some company - to make it easy for folks in need of a launch to find the right ride share for their satellite, no matter how small. Enter ExoLaunch. In this episode we talk with ExoLaunch CEO Robert Sproles about what their company is ac...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xryd9cC8ZWU Hosted by Fraser Cain. From Jul 4, 2018. For the first time ever, astronomers have captured a direct image of a newly forming planet orbiting around a newly forming star.   It's a stunning photograph, not only for the science and what was observed, but what it means the future of exoplanetary astronomy.   We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of As...

April Part II. Paul Hill & Dr. Jenifer "Dr. Dust" Millard host.   Damien Phillips, John Wildridge and Dustin Ruoff produce. This month what else can we chat about? Paul and Jeni talk Artemis II. In this chatty news episode we chat about more Artemis mission shenanigans.   We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs.   Just visit: https...

Taking nothing for granted. Hosted by Steve Nerlich. Dear Cheap Astronomy – Is space really empty? Well, the universe is filled with stars, planets and galaxies, but sure all the big gaps between those things are mostly empty. Although, let's not forget dark matter. It's likely to have a wider and denser distribution than visible matter, since we think there's four times more of it than there is o...