Sad Astronomy: Reflections on Distance, Death, and Meaning
This episode begins with auroras and interstellar objects and ends somewhere much closer to the heart. After catching up on the week’s sky – dark moonless nights, Mercury in the dawn, meteor activity,...
16 Nov 202523min
Playing Dice with the Universe
This week on Star Trails, we let the universe decide.We fire up a real quantum computer to generate pure randomness — the seed for a million-universe simulation of the famous Drake Equation. Each run ...
9 Nov 202526min
A Postcard to the Cosmos: Recreating the Arecibo Signal
This week on Star Trails, we explore the messages written across the cosmos — from faint comets in our own skies to the coded signals we’ve sent into the void. Drew shares a quick report from his loca...
2 Nov 202525min
The Silence Between the Stars
As Halloween approaches, we drift into one of astronomy’s most haunting questions: if life in the universe is so likely, where is everybody? This week, we explore the famous Fermi Paradox — from Enric...
26 Okt 202521min
Echoes from the Cosmic Graveyard
The veil between life and death is thin in late October, and not just on Earth. This week on Star Trails, we take a haunting journey through The Cosmic Graveyard, a place where dead suns still glow, g...
19 Okt 202513min
The Mid-October Sky and The House of a Thousand Mirrors
The nights are growing longer, the air is sharpening, and the Moon is finally stepping aside. In this week’s episode, we look to the skies from October 12th through the 18th, and discover a season in ...
12 Okt 202512min
Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos (and a Supermoon Too)
The Harvest Supermoon rises over crisp autumn nights as Saturn reigns in the southeast and Pegasus climbs the eastern sky. In this week’s episode of Star Trails, we examine the celestial highlights of...
5 Okt 202522min
Star Trails will return on October 5
It’s been a short break due to technical issues, travel, and life in general, but the show is far from gone. Thanks to everyone who wrote in asking about it — your messages mean the world.Here’s what’...
27 Sep 20252min
