Radio Astronomy

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 aging star – taken using multiple telescopes – gives us a clue.

Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171220131710.htm

Erika K. Carlson and Zach Pace talk about an interstellar visitor — the first asteroid we’ve observed pass through our Solar System from elsewhere in the Milky Way galaxy.

Source: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/meet-oumuamua-the-interstellar-cigar/

Ring around the dwarf planet! Erika K. Carlson and Diego Casanova discuss scientists’ discovery of a ring around the dwarf planet Haumea in the outer Solar System.

Source: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/2017/20171011-haumea-has-a-ring.html

Jacqueline Goldstein discusses a ground breaking discovery involving gravitational waves and gold.

http://news.mit.edu/2017/ligo-virgo-first-detection-gravitational-waves-colliding-neutron-stars-1016

Diego Casanova and Jacqueline Goldstein discuss a recent survey indicating that the satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way may not resemble those orbiting other Milky Way like galaxies.

Yale University. “Is the Milky Way an ‘outlier’ galaxy? Studying its ‘siblings’ for clues.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 20 September 2017.

Erika K. Carlson and Jacqueline Goldstein talk about the Grand Finale of the Cassini’s mission to Saturn.

Source: http://www.astronomy.com/news/2017/09/cassini-meets-its-end

Jacqueline Goldstein talks about her favorite topic – pulsating stars, in this case in the star in the Pleiades star cluster.

Source: www.astronomy.com/news/2017/08/kep…ades-variability