AaS! 49: What Were the Most Clever Experiments of All Time?

Part 2 of 2! How did the observation of a kilonova change astronomy? How did that one observation kill off alternate models of gravity? What's in store for the future of gravitational waves? I discuss...

17 Aug 202142min

Part 1! What are gravitational waves? What makes them? How can we detect them here on Earth, and why is it a big deal? I discuss these questions and more in today's Ask a Spaceman! Audio Credit: Calte...

3 Aug 202145min

What are the different kinds of asteroids? What are they made of? How can we send missions to capture them, and what will we do once we get one? I discuss these questions and more in today's Ask a Spa...

20 Juli 202139min

How did so much junk get up in space? How can we clean it up? How is it making light pollution worse? I discuss these questions and more in today's Ask a Spaceman! Support the show: http://www.patreon...

6 Juli 202138min

How do we measure the age of the universe? Why are different methods giving different results? How do we solve this problem? I discuss these questions and more in today's Ask a Spaceman! Support the s...

15 Juni 202137min

What is a black hole firewall? How does it solve some paradoxes when it comes to black holes? Do the firewalls actually exist? I discuss these questions and more in today's Ask a Spaceman! Support the...

1 Juni 202138min

What killed Mars billions of years ago? How can we kickstart a warming trend to transform Mars to look like Earth? What kind of technology do we need, and how well will it work? I discuss these questi...

18 Maj 202136min

What makes quantum computers so powerful? What kinds of problems can they solve? How do we actually build one? I discuss these questions and more in today's Ask a Spaceman! Support the show: http://ww...

4 Maj 202141min