Pale Blue Pod

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! MessagesWatch and...

13 Okt 20251h 2min

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...

6 Okt 202558min

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 o...

29 Sep 20251h 5min

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,...

22 Sep 202556min

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...

15 Sep 202548min

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, pen...

8 Sep 20251h 8min

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 feat...

1 Sep 20251h 1min

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...

25 Aug 202556min