Tonight, the Perpetual Notion Machine gets a glimpse of what it’s like to be an astronomer. Our guest is Robert Mathieu, professor of astronomy at UW-Madison. He studies the structure, […]
Radio Astronomy: Hot Subdwarf Pulsators
When do stars not follow the rules? When those stars have friends! Join Andrew Nine and Zach Pace for a quick taste of some stellar pulsation astrophysics!
Radio Astronomy: Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star?
Do stars really twinkle? And if so, why?
Radio Astronomy: An Exoplanetary Oddity
Join Dan and Zach today to learn what could possibly cause a star’s light to dim by a whopping 80 percent.
Imaging a Red Giant’s Surface
Jacqueline Goldstein and Erika K. Carlson talk about what our Sun might look like near the end of its life, and how a recent photograph of the surface of an […]
The Sun’s Sibling
This week on Radio Astronomy, Jacqueline Goldstein and Erin Boettcher discuss the birth of stars from stellar nurseries: large, dusty, gaseous clouds in which young stars condense and form.
