Past Astronomy on Tap Events
Mt. Wilson and the Discovery of Galaxies - Jeff Rich
Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Universe's Most Energetic Explosions - Delina Levine
#153, July 13, 2026 (Announcement, Videos: 1 2, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Black Holes, Neutron Stars, and White Dwarfs in Globular Clusters - Kyle Kremer
Gravitational-Wave Paleontology: Black Holes as Cosmic Fossils - Floor Broekgaarden
#152, June 17, 2026 (Announcement, Videos: 1 2, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Exploring the X-ray Universe with eROSITA - Esra Bulbul
What We Talk About When We Talk About Aliens - Tom Rice
#151, June 16, 2026 (Announcement, Videos: 1 2, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Star Formation and Gas Flows in our Galaxy's Center - Cara Battersby
Preserving Darkness in an Age of Light - Stephen Hummel
#150, June 15, 2026 (Announcement, Videos: 1 2, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Moonbound Again: Artemis II and the Return of Humans to Deep Space - Sarah Elizabeth McCandless
LISTER: Why a Lunar Lander Payload Put a Hole in the Moon - Roshan Misra
#149, April 27, 2026 (Announcement, Videos: 1 2, Host: Cameron Hummels)
How the Smallest Galaxies Reveal Dark Matter's Secrets - Sasha Mintz
How Jupiter's Moons Became Alien Worlds - Tim Proudkii
#148, March 9, 2026 (Announcement, Videos: 1 2, Host: Cameron Hummels)
How You Saved NASA Science and What Happens Next - Jack Kiraly
Studying Exoplanet Atmospheres with Space Telescopes Large and Small - Tom Greene
#147, February 9, 2026 (Announcement, Videos: 1 2, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Studying the Giants - Understanding the Universe through its Largest Structures - Harshda Saxena
How Jupiter's Moons Became Alien Worlds - Tim Proudkii
#146, February 7, 2026 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Death Valley
Gamma-Ray Bursts: the Universe's Most Energetic Explosions - Delina Levine
The Stellar Graveyard: Black Holes, Neutron Stars, and White Dwarfs -Sam Rose
#145, February 6, 2026 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Death Valley
Our Neighboring Supermassive Black Hole and How to Find It - Jesse Han
I Am Grote: How One Man Changed Radio Astronomy Forever - Allison Matthews
#144, January 12, 2026 (Announcement, Videos: 1 2, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Dusty Plasma: From Fusion to the Rings of Saturn - Eva Kostadinova
Understanding the Sun in our Lab - David Schaffner
#143, November 18, 2025 (Announcement, Videos: 1 2, Host: Cameron Hummels)
How to Find Pandora: Detection and Characterization of Bodies Outside our Solar System - Katelyn Horstman
Searching for Avatar-like Worlds Around Alpha Centauri A - Aniket Sanghi
#142, October 27, 2025 (Announcement, Videos: 1 2, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Can We Send Spacecraft to Exoplanets? - Mike Kelzenberg
The DSA-2000 Radio Telescope - Katie Jameson
#141, September 20, 2025 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels) - Great Basin
The Science of Black Holes - Cameron Hummels
Uncovering the History of the Universe with Radio Astronomy - Ruby Byrne
#140, September 19, 2025 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels) - Great Basin
To the Stratosphere and Beyond: Chasing Cosmic Clues with Balloon-Borne Telescopes - Susan Redmond
People Who Think About Living On Mars, Haven't Thought Enough About Living On Mars - Adam Steltzner
#139, September 15, 2025 (Announcement, Videos: 1 2, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Furtive Nudges and Gravity Bombs: Yet Another Talk on Exploding Stars - David Vartanyan
Exploring Saturn's Moon Titan with the Dragonfly Mission - Morgan Cable
#138, August 4, 2025 (Announcement, Videos: 1 2, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Why we think dark matter really exists--and what we think it is - Isabel Sands
Finding Stars about to Die - Daichi Tsuna
#137, July 14, 2025 (Announcement, Videos: 1 2, Host: Cameron Hummels)
How Computers Smash Black Holes Together - Sarah Habib
Einstein's Curve Ball - Yoonsoo Kim
#136, June 23, 2025 (Announcement, Videos: 1 2, Host: Cameron Hummels)
How to Catch a Dark Matter Clump (Without Ever Seeing It) - Ana Bonaca
Gravitational-Wave Astronomy: Listening to the Dark Side of the Universe - Gabriele Vajente
#135, May 12, 2025 (Announcement, Videos: 1 2, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Investigating the Origins of Planets through their Atmospheres - Aurora Kesseli
Cosmic Fireworks from Stellar Mergers - Viraj Karambelkar
#134, April 14, 2025 (Announcement, Videos: 1 2, Host: Cameron Hummels)
SPHEREx: Zooming Out to See the Big Picture - Jamie Bock
Revealing the "Missing Baryons" that Comprise Half of Our Universe - Jack Sayers
#133, March 24, 2025 (Announcement, Videos: 1 2, Host: Cameron Hummels)
The Sun's Story: From Birth to Death - Antonio Rodriguez
Seeing the Invisible through Gravitational Lensing - Mandy Chen
#132, February 24, 2025 (Announcement, Videos: 1 2, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Cannibal Galaxies - Delaney Dunne
Photographing Distant Alien Worlds - Aniket Sanghi
#131, February 22, 2025 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Death Valley
Can we send spacecraft to exoplanets? - Mike Kelzenberg
Galaxy Clusters Collide: The Most Energetic Events since the Big Bang - Emily Silich
#130, February 21, 2025 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Death Valley
Fast Radio Bursts: Outshining a Galaxy in the Blink of an Eye - Stella Ocker
Building Europa Clipper - Matthew Stumbo
#129, February 3, 2025 (Announcement, Videos: 1 2, Host: Cameron Hummels)
An X-ray View of Massive Stars, Black Holes, and Neutron Stars - Margaret Lazzarini
How to Take an X-ray Image of the Night Sky - Peter Boorman
#128, December 16, 2024 (Announcement, Videos: 1 2, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Chandra Telescope
Lunar Excursions Aligned with the Major Standstill Moon – Ed Krupp
Singularities on the Silver Screen: Exploring Black Holes in Popular Culture – Lisa Drummond
#127, November 18, 2024 (Announcement, Videos: 1 2, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Echoes of the Big Bang - Albert Wandui
Search for Biosignatures Across Space and Time - Anastasia Yanchilina
#126, October 21, 2024 (Announcement, Videos: 1 2, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Rewinding the Orbits of Nearby Galaxies - Ekta Patel
The Milky Way: A Galaxy of Immigrants - Rohan Naidu
#125, September 16, 2024 (Announcement, Videos: 1 2, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Gravitational Waves and Black Holes - Javier Roulet
Understanding the Milky Way with Gaia - Rocio Kiman
#124, September 7, 2024 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Great Basin
How Do Stars Form? - Katie Jameson
The Structure of the Universe - Vikram Ravi
#123, September 6, 2024 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Great Basin
Galaxies, Supermassive Black Holes, and Waffles - Nicole Sanchez
Love, Fear, and Greed: An Asteroid Story - Martin Elvis
#122, September 3, 2024 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Aspen
Starquakes and Stellar Surprises - Nicholas Rui
Two Is Better Than One: Binaries Across the Universe - Catherine Clark
#121, August 19, 2024 (Announcement, Videos:1 2, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Did the James Webb Space Telescope Break Our Understanding of the Early Universe? – Zhuyun Zhuang
What Goes Up Must Come Down: Infrared Astronomy with Sounding Rockets – Richard Feder
#120, July 24, 2024 (Announcement, Videos 1 2, Host: Cameron Hummels)
When Data Isn't Enough: Illustrating Astrophysics for the Public – Robert Hurt
Using Machine Learning and Citizen Science to Classify Supernovae – Xander Hall
#119, June 22, 2024 (Announcement, Videos 1 2, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Cosmic Archaeology: Uncovering the History of the Universe with Radio Astronomy – Ruby Byrne
Coming Soon: Telescopes on the Moon – Nivedita Mahesh
#118, June 6, 2024 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Eastern Sierra
Alien Oceans and the Search for Life in the Depths of Space – Kevin Hand
How do Supermassive Black Holes Form? – Jean Somalwar
#117, May 20, 2024 (Announcement, Videos 1 2, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Technosignatures on Tap: Searching for Extraterrestrial Civilizations – Joseph Lazio
Gravitational Wave Sources at the Heart of Galaxies – Smadar Naoz
#116, April 29, 2024 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Black Holes: Dining with the Stars – Edward Nathan
How Dust Shapes Stars – Nadine Hassan
#115, March 25, 2024 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels)
How Supermassive Black Holes Shape Their Host Galaxies – Joanna Piotrowska-Karpov
(Star)Dust to Dust: The Formation, Observation, and Impact of Space Dust – Sam Rose
#114, March 2, 2024 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Death Valley
The Mystery of Cosmic Rays – Kathryn Plant
The Starry Tapestry: Myths and Legends of the Night Sky – Kaustav Das
#113, March 1, 2024 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Death Valley
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? – Zach Weinersmith
The Many Fabrics of Our Solar System: Texture, Color, and Meaning – Maria Camarca
#112, February 26, 2024 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Planetary Paparazzi: Engineering Telescopes for Exoplanet Close-Ups – Niyati Desai
The Starry Tapestry: Myths and Legends of the Night Sky – Kaustav Das
#111, January 29, 2024 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Beamed Energy for Earth, the Skies, and Beyond – Mike Kelzenberg
(Star)Dust to Dust: The Formation, Observation, and Impact of Space Dust – Sam Rose
#110, December 4, 2023 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Unveiling Venus, Earth's Evil Twin – Anna Gülcher
Exoplanets: Past, Present, Future – Luke Bouma
#109, November 13, 2023 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Beyond the Solar System: Exotic Exoplanets around Other Stars – Kaitlin Kratter
Searching for the Little Neighbors of Big Galaxies – Ben Weiner
#108, November 4, 2023 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Grand Canyon
The Solar System's Volcanic Wonderland – Katherine de Kleer
1I/'Oumuamua: The Nearest Exoplanet? – Steve Desch
#107, November 3, 2023 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Grand Canyon
Mars Rocks – Jennifer Buz
How Bright is a Comet, Really? – Qicheng Zhang
#106, October 22, 2023 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Grand Canyon
The Evolution of the Stars – Rocio Kiman
Black Holes and Gravitational Waves – Javier Roulet
#105, October 11, 2023 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Grand Canyon
Cannibal Galaxies – Delaney Dunne
The Solar System's Volcanic Wonderland – Katherine de Kleer
#104, October 10, 2023 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Grand Canyon
How Supermassive Black Holes Shape Their Host Galaxies – Joanna Piotrowska-Karpov
Why Are Stars? – Mike Grudić
#103, September 11, 2023 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Cosmic Neutrinos: What can these Particles Reveal about the Universe? – Robert Stein
Cosmic Archaeology: Uncovering the History of the Universe with Radio Astronomy – Ruby Byrne
#102, August 14, 2023 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Dark Energy and Dark Matter: Our Mostly Invisible Universe – Alina Kiessling
From Whiteboard to Launch in Just 20 Years: a Personal Journey – Jason Rhodes
#101, July 17, 2023 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Bringing Mars to Earth – Laurie Leshin
Planet Nine from Outer Space – Mike Brown
#100, June 12, 2023 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels) – 100th Event
The Great Cosmic Recipe: Understanding the Universe on Large Scales – Sofia Gallego
Gravitational Lensing and the Nature of Dark Matter – Leonidas Moustakas
#99, May 15, 2023 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Landing Stuff on Mars is Hard – Rob Manning
Shake & Bake: Preparing Spacecraft for the Extreme Conditions of Launch and Space – Shannon Statham
#98, April 10, 2023 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Cannibal galaxies – Delaney Dunne
The cosmic art of planetary nebulae – Ben Roulston
#97, March 13, 2023 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels)
How old is a star? – Rocio Kiman
Shining a light on supermassive black holes – Peter Boorman
#96, February 13, 2023 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Not all those who wander are planets – Max Goldberg
The Solar System's volcanic wonderland – Katherine de Kleer
#95, February 10, 2023 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Death Valley
Rockets are awesome – Justin Foley
Telecommuting to Mars: using rovers to explore the red planet – Tina Seeger
#94, January 30, 2023 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels)
What to pack for interplanetary travel: a guide to planetary weather – Julie Inglis
Astronomical discoveries that change our civilization – Michael Pajkos
#93, December 12, 2022 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels)
How to find things that go blip in the night – Stephanie Deppe
Black holes and stars and gravitational waves, oh my! – Nils Deppe
#92, November 14, 2022 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Where will we be in six billion years? – Siyi Xu
Space-based, wide-field slitless spectroscopy: past, present, and future – Xin Wang
#91, November 11, 2022 (Announcement, Video, Hosts: Yuguang Chen, Xinnan Du) – Virtual 中国人
Stars that go boom in the night – Abigail Polin
The lost dialogue of Pluto and the fundamental nature of gravity – Spiros Michalakis
#90, October 17, 2022 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Life finds a way – Ivey Davis
Not all those who wander are planets – Max Goldberg
#89, September 26, 2022 (Announcement, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Rayos Gamma del Espacio Profundo – Sara Coutiño de León
¿Cómo los astrónomos aficionados ayudan a estudiar el sistema solar? – Rodrigo Leiva
#88, August 22, 2022 (Announcement, Video, Hosts: Tony Rodríguez, Sofia Gallego) – Virtual En Español
Solar System vs Exoplanets: are we the weird kids in the galaxy? – Jennifer Burt
Exploding exomoons – Apurva Oza
#87, August 15, 2022 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
How to build a telescope in 365 days to study exoplanet atmospheres – Ashley Baker
The Deep Space Network: science from across the Solar System – Joseph Lazio
#86, July 11, 2022 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Fast Radio Bursts – Dongzi Li
How to become an astronomer – Guochao Sun
#85, July 8, 2022 (Announcement, Video, Hosts: Yuguang Chen, Xinnan Du) – Virtual 中国人
New astronomical discoveries from Owens Valley – Vikram Ravi
The Solar System's volcanic wonderland – Katherine de Kleer
#84, June 22, 2022 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Eastern Sierra
The cosmology of astronomy on tap –Emily Rice
Exoplanet roulette: choose your fate – Jessie Christiansen
#83, June 15, 2022 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Cinematic astronomy with the Hubble Space Telescope – Frank Summers
The first portrait of our Milky Way's black hole – Katie Bouman
#82, June 13, 2022 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
The Science of Star Trek – Michael Wong
The Science of Star Wars – Cameron Hummels
#81, May 23, 2022 (Announcement, Video, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Virtual
How we will find the very first galaxies of all – Ethan Siegel
Seeing the unseen: how astronomers probe magnetic fields in galaxies – Sam Ponnada
#80, April 25, 2022 (Announcement, Video, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Virtual
Cracking the Venusian code with Davinci – Amy Hoffman
Putting the time in spacetime: how time-keeping has revealed the secrets of the universe – Max Goldberg
#79, March 14, 2022 (Announcement, Video, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Virtual
Dancing black holes – Ron Tso
Interacting binary stars: from the computer to the universe and back – Ylva Götberg
#78, February 28, 2022 (Announcement, Video, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Virtual
Brightest stars in the sky – Miao Li
Surfing the tides on stars – Linhao Ma
#77, February 18, 2022 (Announcement, Video, Hosts: Yuguang Chen, Xinnan Du) – Virtual 中国人
Don't Look Up: the science of near-earth objects – Amy Mainzer
Astronomy without astronomers – Dmitry Duev
#76, January 24, 2022 (Announcement, Video, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Virtual
The search for the first galaxies with JWST – Christina Williams
Magnifying the earliest galaxies – Justin Spilker
#75, December 6, 2021 (Announcement, Video, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Virtual JWST
Where does beer come from? JWST will tell us – Colette Salyk
Seeing exoplanets in a whole new light with JWST – Sasha Hinkley
#74, November 8, 2021 (Announcement, Video, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Virtual JWST
El Universo es una Gigantesca Telaraña – Sofia Gallego
#73, November 1, 2021 (Announcement, Video, Hosts: Tony Rodríguez, Benjamin Idini) – Virtual En Español JWST
NASA's first planetary defense mission: DART – Julie Bellerose
Probing the Big Bang with the earliest gravitational waves – Ritoban Basu Thakur
#72, October 25, 2021 (Announcement, Video, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Virtual
A Comprehensive JWST View of the Most Distant Quasars – Jinyi Yang
The Most Uninhabitable Exoplanets – Fei Dai
#71, October 18, 2021 (Announcement, Video, Hosts: Yuguang Chen, Dongzi Li) – Virtual 中国人 JWST
Gravitational waves: sound from deep space – Yanbei Chen
Searching for stars ripped apart by black holes – Yuhan Yao
#70, June 14, 2021 (Announcement, Video, Hosts: Yuguang Chen, Zhuyun Zhuang) – Virtual 中国人
Using gorging supermassive black holes to illuminate distant galaxies – Britt Lundgren
Exploring the universe from the south pole – Junhan Kim
#69, June 7, 2021 (Announcement, Video, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Virtual
Enanas Marrones: Los Ornitorrincos de la Astronomía – Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi
En Busca de Mini Agujeros Negros en el Sistema Solar – Lluís Mas-Ribas
#68, May 17, 2021 (Announcement, Video, Hosts: Tony Rodríguez, Benjamin Idini) – Virtual En Español
SOFIA: NASA's flying infrared observatory – Sabrina Pakzad
The Lunar Crater Radio Telescope on the Far Side of the Moon – Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay
#67, May 10, 2021 (Announcement, Video, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Virtual
The Search for the First Galaxies – Rebecca Larson
Metals from the First Stars – Evan Nuñez
#66, April 26, 2021 (Announcement, Video, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Virtual
Looking for Killer Asteroids – Quanzhi Ye
Going to the ends of the world to discover its beginnings – Cheng Zhang
#65, March 29, 2021 (Announcement, Video, Hosts: Yuguang Chen, Yuping Huang) – Virtual 中国人
Ice and Fire: how hot and cold plasma co-exist around galaxies – Max Gronke
2021: a climate change odyssey – Laura-May Abron
#64, March 22, 2021 (Announcement, Video, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Virtual
Intergalactic Immigrants – Jessica Werk
Exploring the Virtual Universe – Zach Hafen
#63, February 8, 2021 (Announcement, Video, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Virtual
The secret to building the biggest galaxies: cannibalism – Rachel Bezanson
The cosmic gold rush – Igor Andreoni
#62, January 11, 2021 (Announcement, Video, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Virtual
Fantastic meteors and where to find them – Auriane Egal
What the Arrokoth (mu69) flyby teaches us about planet formation – Andrew Youdin
#61, December 14, 2020 (Announcement, Video, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Virtual
Water on the sunlit moon – Casey Honniball
How merging stellar corpses are connected to the calcium in your bones – Kishalay De
#60, November 23, 2020 (Announcement, Video, Host: Cameron Hummels, Calen Henderson) – Virtual
New Horizons and Pluto: an adventure to the outer solar system – Briley Lewis
Fast Radio Bursts: A mystery solved? – Chris Bochenek
#59, October 26, 2020 (Announcement, Video, Hosts: Cameron Hummels, Calen Henderson) – Virtual
Mapping our solar neighborhood – Jackie Faherty
The Planet Nine Hypothesis: An Update – Konstantin Batygin
#58, September 28, 2020 (Announcement, Video, Hosts: Cameron Hummels, Calen Henderson) – Virtual
The first stars, like, ever – Alexander Ji
Riding the waves of the universe – Brittany Kamai
#57, August 17, 2020 (Announcement, Video, Hosts: Cameron Hummels, Calen Henderson) – Virtual
Armchair Astronomy: Exploring Mars (and Earth) from your Couch – Alistair Hayden
The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover: we're going to Mars again! – Nina Lanza
#56, July 20, 2020 (Announcement, Video, Hosts: Cameron Hummels, Calen Henderson) – Virtual
Extremely bright and incredibly distant: gamma ray bursts – Paz Beniamini
Space rocks! – Arya Udry
#55, June 22, 2020 (Announcement, Video, Hosts: Cameron Hummels, Calen Henderson) – Virtual
Hunting planets with radio telescopes – Virginie Faramaz
The hidden universe in 3D – Reinier Janssen
#54, May 18, 2020 (Announcement, Video, Hosts: Cameron Hummels, Calen Henderson) – Virtual
Alien skies through the all-seeing eye – Jessica Spake
How fast are galaxies making stars? – Matt Orr
#53, April 20, 2020 (Announcement, Video, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Virtual
When do stars explode? – Ilaria Caiazzo
Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Boom! – Donal O'Sullivan
#52, March 9, 2020 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
The Harvard Computers: The women who revolutionized astronomy – Rachel Theios
Earthquakes, moonquakes, marsquakes, exoquakes? – Men-Andrin Meier
#51, February 10, 2020 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Spitzer is the coolest telescope – Sean Carey
Forecasting exoplanet weather with Spitzer – Tiffany Kataria
Revealing invisible explosions with Spitzer – Kaew Tinyanont
#50, January 20, 2020 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Calen Henderson) – Spitzer Farewell
Exploding Stars: Making the elements of our universe – Andrew Emerick
How to find moons outside our solar system – Jackie Pezzato
#49, December 16, 2019 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Stellar Recipes: How to make a planet – Nicole Wallack
Reaching for the Stars: The future of spaceflight – Michael Zhang
#48, November 18, 2019 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Calen Henderson)
NASAdena: The space exploration hotspot in your backyard – Alistair Hayden
Moon Diver: Understanding the history of the Moon through a Mission to a lunar cave – Laura Kerber
#47, October 21, 2019 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Shreyas Vissapragada)
Light echos from around black holes – Varoujan Gorjian
#46, September 16, 2019 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Calen Henderson)
Big and small mistakes in cosmology – Agnes Ferté
Capturing the sounds of Mars – Jason Achilles
#45, August 19, 2019 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Nitika Yadlapalli)
When planets collide: making our moon from the wreckage – Simon Lock
Rapid transformers in the sky – Amruta Jaodand
#44, July 22, 2019 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Calen Henderson)
Summer Vacation Spots in Space – Briley Lewis
Neutrinos Fill the Sky – Nathan Whitehorn
#43, June 24, 2019 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Westside
Death from Above – Allison Strom
How NASA makes you healthier – Nitika Yadlapalli
#42, June 17, 2019 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Calen Henderson)
Pebbles on the Shore: Reconstructing Ancient Alien Habitats on Earth and Mars – Cecilia Sanders
A Tour of Exoplanet Discovery – Lee Rosenthal
#41, May 20, 2019 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
The Lives of Stars – Mark Hodges
Simulating the Universe – Cameron Hummels
#40, April 24, 2019 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels) – Eastern Sierra
Ringing Black Holes – Matt Giesler
What isn't dark matter? – Shea Garrison-Kimmel
#39, April 22, 2019 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Calen Henderson)
Tumbling Black Holes – Vijay Varma
Superpowers of Ten: How we think about extreme numbers – Liz Landau
#38, March 25, 2019 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Cómo detener el paso del tiempo – Lluis Mas Ribas
Las galaxias enanas y su historia de la formación del universo – Laura Sales
#37, February 25, 2019 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Albert Izard) – En Español
Staggering with the Stars – Marie Ygouf
Interstellar Booze: What alcohol can teach us about our cosmic origins – Shreyas Vissapragada
#36, January 28, 2019 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
The Multiwavelength Universe – Abby Crites
Seeing Planets through Polarized Sunglasses – Max Millar-Blanchaer
#35, December 3, 2018 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Calen Henderson)
Using Radio Flashes to Probe Interstellar Space – Kathryn Plant
Simulating the Universe – Cameron Hummels
#34, November 5, 2018 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
De-Twinkling Stars to See Exoplanets – Vanessa Bailey
The Sky is Alive with the Sound of Music – Greg Salvesen
#33, October 1, 2018 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Finding Life in the Galaxy – Rob Zellem
Connecting the Pale Blue Dots – Arpita Roy
#32, August 27, 2018 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Calen Henderson)
Art and Astronomy: A Brief History of Visualizing Our Universe – Estevan Guzman
How to Ride Along with the Mars Rovers – Emily Lakdawalla
#31, August 6, 2018 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Rebecca Larson)
The Universe in Infrared – Rebecca Larson
Weekending on the Moon – Jim Bell
#30, July 17, 2018 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Calen Henderson)
Fantastic Stars and Where to Find Them – Dillon Dong, Sarah Blunt
#29, July 16, 2018 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Stars torn apart by Black Holes – Decker French
Sailing on Sunlight: The LightSail Spacecraft – Bruce Betts
#28, June 4, 2018 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
How do stars create gold? – Gina Duggan
Explosions in Space – Maria Drout
#27, May 7, 2018 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
How to Build a Star Cluster – Mike Grudic
Telescopes at the South Pole – Christine Corbett Moran
#26, April 9, 2018 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Calen Henderson)
Creating a Planet from Scratch? – Jono Squire
Cosmology with your Eyes Closed – Vikram Ravi
#25, March 19, 2018 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Rahul Patel)
Can Science Fiction Predict the Future? – Harriet Brettle
Journey to the Center of a Star – Jim Fuller
Earth 2.0: Will we find another potential home? – Elizabeth Tasker
#24, February 12, 2018 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Stars go boom, but why? – Mia de los Reyes
Hacking the Galaxy to make a Gravitational Wave Antenna – Stephen Taylor
#23, January 15, 2018 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
We Are Made of Big Bang Stuff – Jeff Rich
Black Holes Don't Suck, But They Do Like To Eat – Katey Alatelo
#22, December 4, 2017 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Jessie Christiansen)
100 Years of the 100 Inch Telescope at Mt. Wilson – Cindy Hunt
Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe – Andrés Plazas Malagón
#21, November 6, 2017 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
LIGO Launches the Age of Multi-Messenger Astronomy – Jameson Rollins
Stellar Marriages: A Turbulent Story – Nadia Blagorodnova
#20, October 23, 2017 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Ode to a Lost Spaceship: Cassini at Saturn – Erika Hamden
Dismantling the Scientific Superiority Complex – Lamar Glover
#19, October 9, 2017 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Calen Henderson) – Featured in Documentary: Behind the Curve
Singing with the Stars: The Real Music of the Spheres – Anders Thygesen
Twinkle Twinkle Little Galaxy: Simulating the Tiniest Star Factories – Coral Wheeler
#18, September 11, 2017 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Total Eclipse of the Sun – Tiffany Meshkat
Fantastic Beasts of the Radio Sky – Harish Vedantham
#17, July 31, 2017 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
The Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy – Elena Murchikova
Is Our Solar System Weird? – Erik Petigura
#16, July 3, 2017 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Rahul Patel)
How Superman Sees the Universe – Marianne Heida
Gravity and Holes in the Abyss – Ron Tso
#15, June 12, 2017 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
The Truth about Black Holes – Leo Stein
A Pub Crawl through the Trappist-1 System – Courtney Dressing
#14, May 15, 2017 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Simulating a Black Hole – Maria Okounkova
Proxima b: Our Nearest Exoplanet – Devin Silvia
#13, April 17, 2017 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Galaxies Resisting a Violent Universe – Jorge Moreno
Magnifying the Universe with Einstein's Telescopes – Rachael Livermore
#12, March 13, 2017 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Calen Henderson)
Pulsars: Spinning Stellar Corpses – Anna Ho
Galaxies Are People Too – Louis Abramson
#11, February 13, 2017 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
The Discovery of Dark Matter – Johanna Teske
The Speed of Light is Slow – Adric Riedel
#10, January 23, 2017 (Announcement, Photos, Hosts: Rahul Patel, Ricky Nilsson)
Finding the First Galaxies in the Universe – Jordan Mirocha
Dangerous Galaxies: Strangulation and Cannibalism – Ivanna Escala
#9, December 12, 2016 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Astrobiology: From Molecules to Space Robots – Ricky Nilsson
Black Hole Jeopardy – Hannalore Gerling-Dunsmore
#8, November 21, 2016 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
What is Dark Matter? – Denise Schmitz
Meteorites on Other Planets – James Ashley
#7, October 19th, 2016 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Seeing Gravitational Wave Sources – Alex Urban
Old Telescope Learns New Tricks – Eric Bellm
#6, October 18th, 2016 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Where is LIGO's detection? – Astrid Lamberts
No more Twinkle Little Star – Ji Wang
#5, October 17th, 2016 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
It All Started with a Bang – Andreas Faisst
Spectacular Stellar Explosions – Ragnhild Lunnan
#4, September 26th, 2016 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Rahul Patel)
Galaxies with Edwin – Marja Seidel
Earth through the Looking Glass – Calen Henderson
#3, August 22nd, 2016 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
The First Beer Came from Space – Rachael Beaton
Jupiter: Exposed – Rahul Patel
#2, July 25th, 2016 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)
Exoplanet Roulette: Guess Your Fate – Jessie Christiansen
#1, June 20th, 2016 (Announcement, Photos, Host: Cameron Hummels)