The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite was designed to find exoplanets -- but, it turns out that there's a huge amount of other science that it can do, too! In this episode, we provide an inside look at the TESS Ninja 3 conference and explore the range of science being studied with TESS: comets, stellar clusters and flares, trans-Neptunian objects, black holes, and more.

Featured Astrobites:

astrobites.org/2019/12/06

astrobites.org/2019/11/19

Credits:

Interviews: Isabel Colman, Kareem El-Badry

Space sound: http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/space-audio/sounds/

Music: Joel Ong

Logo: Joanna Ramasawmy

The laws of physics that govern our universe rely on only a handful of constants. But are these values really constant after all? In this episode, we explore new research into the gravitational constant, the diffuse gas fraction in the universe, and a very peculiar planet's orbital period.

Featured Astrobites:

https://astrobites.org/2018/09/27/

https://astrobites.org/2019/09/24/

https://astrobites.org/2019/09/11/

Credits:

Music: Joel Ong

Logo: Joanna Ramasawmy

Join us in celebrating the life of the Spitzer Space Telescope! Malena talks about Spitzer’s discovery of exoplanets, Alex explains Spitzer’s fascination with dust, and Will presents a brown dwarf that Spitzer found to be much more luminous than expected.  

Featured Astrobites:

astrobites.org/2011/08/04

astrobites.org/2018/09/17

astrobites.org/2018/08/06

Links:

Harmonics: https://bit.ly/30PzNJH

M31: https://go.nasa.gov/36uFYUN

Credits:

Music: Joel Ong, Scott Buckley

Logo: Joanna Ramasawmy

Goblins, giants, and dwarfs, oh my! Today we discuss the variety of mythical creatures in astronomy, including ghost and goblin galaxies, sneezy M dwarfs with cyclops planets, and oscillating giant stars.

Featured Astrobites:

astrobites.org/2018/11/22

astrobites.org/2019/09/16

astrobites.org/2019/11/20

Credits:

Music: Joel Ong

Logo: Joanna Ramasawmy

"Reduce, reuse, recycle." You may practice this advice in your own life, but did you know the universe does the same thing on a much larger scale? Will tells us about quasars that reduce, Malena talks about galactic recycling, and Alex describes galaxies that reuse hydrogen. 

Featured Astrobites:

astrobites.org/2019/07/24

astrobites.org/2019/11/13

astrobites.org/2019/11/26

Credits:

Music: Joel Ong

Logo: Joanna Ramasawmy

They're sources of unending creation, they're tearing apart spacetime, they're...bald? Tune in as we explore the newest research on black holes!

Featured Astrobites:

astrobites.org/2019/11/06/elusive-black-holes-have-we-found-the-middle-sibling/

astrobites.org/2019/10/22/how-to-glo-up-black-hole-neutron-star-mergers/

astrobites.org/2019/09/19/spinning-down-the-origins-of-black-hole-mergers/

Music: Joel Ong

Logo: Joanna Ramasawmy

Let’s get to know the neighbors: our dear friends in the solar system! In today’s episode, we explore mysteries of the Sun, the Moon, and the giant planets.

Featured Astrobites:

astrobites.org/2019/08/12/a-proposed-moon-formation-theory-the-multiple-impact-hypothesis

astrobites.org/2018/12/24/vary-vary-little-star

astrobites.org/2019/08/21/why-are-jupiter-and-saturn-spinning-so-slowly

Credits:

Music: Joel Ong

Logo: Joanna Ramasawmy

Featuring Raluca Rufu

Astrobites for your ears. Three grad students bring you cutting-edge research findings in astronomy and connect the dots between diverse subfields.

Credits:

Music: Joel Ong

Logo: Joanna Ramasawmy

Disks, discs, and disques...no matter the spelling, disks are relevant to many areas of astronomy! In this episode, we discuss three recent papers about disks of different size scales: circumplanetary, circumstellar, and galactic.

Featured Astrobites:

astrobites.org/2019/08/08/moonetesimals_from_nondetections

astrobites.org/2019/08/14/invisible-giant

astrobites.org/2019/09/02/with_age_comes_wisdom

Credits:

Music: Joel Ong

Logo: Joanna Ramasawmy