Is Empty Space Really Empty? A 90-Year-Old Mystery Gets Its Answer (S05E168 — The Weekend Wrap)
Today's episode — S05E168, Saturday August 15, 2026, our "Weekend Wrap": **Main story: a magnetar confirms 90-year-old vacuum birefringence prediction.** A team led by Rachael Stewart (George Washin...
15 Elo 15min
The Black Hole Wrapped in a Star: JWST’s Cosmic Dawn Discovery
Anna and Avery break down JWST's discovery of MoM-BH*-1, the earliest known "black hole star" — a black hole shrouded in dense gas, glowing from just 660 million years after the Big Bang, that might e...
14 Elo 16min
Moon Crashes, Radiation-Eating Fungi, and the Quest for Habitable Worlds
SpaceTime Series 29 Episode 97 The world watches as a SpaceX rocket crashes into the Moon A disused SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage has crashed into the Moon providing astronomers with useful data on the ...
14 Elo 20min
Two Minutes of Totality: Inside the August 12 Eclipse
Anna and Avery break down yesterday's total solar eclipse — a 182-mile-wide shadow that swept from the Arctic through Greenland and Iceland to northern Spain, giving millions of people up to 2 minutes...
13 Elo 15min
The Galaxy’s Sugary Center Could Change How Life Began | Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic...
13 Elo 27min
Galactic Giants: Unveiling the Mysteries of IC 1101 and Liquid Streams on Pluto
13 Elo 21min
Eclipse 2026: Where, When & How to Watch (Both Hemispheres)
In this episode • Shadow Day: the only total solar eclipse of 2026 crosses Arctic Russia, Greenland, western Iceland and northern Spain today — the first total eclipse over western mainland Europe sin...
12 Elo 16min
Vortices of the Sun and the First Gravitational Waves from Black Hole Mergers: A Cosmic Breakthrough
SpaceTime Series 29 Episode 95 Spectacular vortices discovered on the Sun’s surface Astronomers have for the first time observed swirling whirlpool like vortices deep in the Sun’s photosphere – its vi...
12 Elo 31min
