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Dr. Abigail Polin -- Astrophysics Q & A #3
Jun 1, 2026
1h 17m 20s
Dr. Jeff Gerber -- Let's Talk Stars
May 1, 2026
1h 05m 47s
Dr. Charles Law -- All the Molecules in Protoplanetary Disks
Apr 1, 2026
50m 51s
Dr. Daniel Polin -- The Biggest Digital Camera in the World
Mar 1, 2026
1h 14m 43s
Dr. Gurtina Besla -- Dark Matter in the Milky Way
Feb 1, 2026
1h 01m 48s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/1/26 | ![]() Dr. Abigail Polin -- Astrophysics Q & A #3✨ | astrophysicsQ&A+3 | Abigail Polin | — | Indiana | astrophysicsQ&A+3 | — | 1h 17m 20s | |
| 5/1/26 | ![]() Dr. Jeff Gerber -- Let's Talk Stars✨ | astrophysicsstars+3 | Dr. Jeff Gerber | — | — | astrophysicsstars+4 | — | 1h 05m 47s | |
| 4/1/26 | ![]() Dr. Charles Law -- All the Molecules in Protoplanetary Disks✨ | planet formationprotoplanetary disks+3 | Dr. Charles Law | The Astrophysics Podcast | — | planet formationprotoplanetary disks+3 | — | 50m 51s | |
| 3/1/26 | ![]() Dr. Daniel Polin -- The Biggest Digital Camera in the World✨ | digital cameradata transmission+3 | Dr. Daniel Polin | Vera Rubin Observatory | — | digital cameraVera Rubin Observatory+3 | — | 1h 14m 43s | |
| 2/1/26 | ![]() Dr. Gurtina Besla -- Dark Matter in the Milky Way✨ | Dark MatterMilky Way+3 | Dr. Gurtina Besla | Milky Way | — | Dark MatterMilky Way+5 | — | 1h 01m 48s | |
| 1/1/26 | ![]() Dr. Abigail Polin -- Astrophysics Q & A #2✨ | black holesastrophysics+3 | Dr. Abigail Polin | The Astrophysics Podcast | black holes | black holesastrophysics+3 | — | 1h 23m 23s | |
| 12/1/25 | ![]() Dr. Kaitlin Kratter -- Building a Solar System on the Computer✨ | solar system formationplanetary systems+3 | Dr. Kaitlin Kratter | — | — | solar systemplanetary formation+3 | — | 1h 15m 02s | |
| 11/1/25 | ![]() Dr. Tim Cunningham -- White Dwarfs Sometimes Eat Planets✨ | white dwarfsstellar remnants+3 | Dr. Tim Cunningham | The Astrophysics Podcast | — | white dwarfstellar evolution+3 | — | 1h 15m 10s | |
| 10/1/25 | ![]() Dr. Merel van 't Hoff -- The Birth of the Planets✨ | planet formationastrochemistry+3 | Dr. Merel van 't Hoff | The Astrophysics PodcastPaul Duffell | — | planet formationastrochemistry+4 | — | 58m 12s | |
| 9/1/25 | ![]() Dr. Wen-Fai Fong -- The Neutron Star Mash✨ | neutron starsastrophysics+3 | Dr. Wen-Fai Fong | — | — | neutron starsradiation+3 | — | 43m 20s | |
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| 8/1/25 | ![]() Dr. Daniel D'Orazio -- The Black Hole Shuffle✨ | black holessupermassive black holes+3 | Dr. Daniel D'Orazio | The Astrophysics PodcastThe Black Hole Shuffle | galaxies | black holessupermassive+3 | — | 1h 03m 35s | |
| 7/1/25 | ![]() Dr. Abigail Polin -- Astrophysics Q & A✨ | astrophysicsQ&A+3 | Dr. Abigail Polin | — | — | astrophysicsQ&A+3 | — | 1h 25m 00s | |
| 6/1/25 | ![]() Dr. Andrea Derdzinski -- How do we see black holes? | A black hole is so dense, its gravitational field prevents anything from escaping, including light. You would think that would make them the "blackest" things in the universe; how in the world do we know they are there? Dr. Andrea Derdzinski tells us about how we detect black holes, either due to the gravitational waves they produce, or due to their interaction with material orbiting around them, which paradoxically can make them some of the brightest objects in the universe. | 55m 42s | ||||||
| 5/1/25 | ![]() Dr. Jared Goldberg -- Does Betelgeuse have a Betelbuddy? | Up in Orion's shoulder sits Betelgeuse, a supergiant star near the end of its life. The surface of Betelgeuse has been roiling and pulsing for centuries, as long as humans have recorded its modulated luminosity. Dr. Jared Goldberg is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics in the Flatiron Institute in New York City. Dr. Golberg has been developing computer models for Betelgeuse to help understand and interpret its oscillations over time. | 1h 04m 15s | ||||||
| 4/1/25 | ![]() Dr. Yvette Cendes -- Black Holes on the Radio | What happens when a black hole eats up a star? Apparently a lot of things happen, and if you wait around awhile and look in the radio, even more things happen! Dr. Yvette Cendes tells us what it's like to be a radio astronomer and about her latest research into tidal disruption events (TDE's), when a black hole shreds up a star and eats it, producing a dramatic light show across the electromagnetic spectrum. | 53m 26s | ||||||
| 3/1/25 | ![]() Dr. Maxim Lyutikov -- How do you make a Fast Radio Burst? | Some things happen out in the universe that are too powerful to make in a lab. Other phenomena are so coherent and well-ordered, we can't figure out how they can be made without a lab! Fast radio bursts are an incomprehensible combination of both; they are extremely powerful, highly coherent, and very rapid bursts of radio emission. Dr. Maxim Lyutikov spends a lot of his time pondering how these bursts could possibly be made, and all the data seems to point to the most extreme physics imaginable: neutron stars at the highest densities we can imagine, with extremely strong gravity and with a magnetic field a quadrillion times stronger than the Earth's magnetic field. | 1h 07m 56s | ||||||
| 2/1/25 | ![]() Dr. Lindsey Kwok -- The Forensic Science of Supernovae | How do we know so much about supernovae, when all we see is this little point of light getting brighter and then dimmer over time? Given this minimal data, we can often say what type of star exploded, and even some details about how the explosion took place. Supernova astronomers are a lot like forensic scientists dusting for fingerprints and getting DNA samples at the scene of a crime. But instead of a typical crime scene, they are investigating the death of an entire solar system. Dr. Lindsey Kwok is a CIERA fellow at Northwestern University and an expert at using JWST to perform state-of-the-art forensic supernova science. | 55m 47s | ||||||
| 1/1/25 | ![]() Dr. Paul Duffell -- The Universe on a Computer (with host Dr. Abigail Polin) | How big a computer do you need to simulate a supernova? Or a planet being formed? Or a black hole swallowing gas? Many astrophysicists spend their time developing computational models to simulate these systems and learn how they evolve. We discuss these computer simulations with Purdue Professor Dr. Paul Duffell. In this first episode of season 2, Dr. Abigail Polin takes over as host. | 1h 10m 28s | ||||||
| 12/1/24 | ![]() Dr. Brenna Mockler -- When Black Holes Get Hungry | What do black holes like to eat? Sometimes a steady diet of interstellar gas just isn't enough and a black hole needs to snack on a whole star. No judgment, we all get that way sometimes. But it can lead to some extremely energetic outflows, visible from across the universe. Dr. Brenna Mockler tells us all about these events, called "Tidal Disruption Events", and what we can learn from observing them. | 1h 00m 30s | ||||||
| 11/1/24 | ![]() Dr. Dan Milisavljevic -- Into the Time Domain | Our universe isn't just a static, unchanging backdrop. It is constantly changing in time and we now have the technology to image it over and over again to explore all those changes. This is called Time Domain Astronomy, and Danny Milisavljevic is an expert in this field. He spends a lot of his time on the forensic science of exploding stars, to gain clues about the underlying processes that caused the explosion in the first place. | 55m 08s | ||||||
| 10/1/24 | ![]() Dr. Katelyn Breivik -- How Binary Stars Evolve | What would our solar system be like if we had two suns? Actually, this situation could be more common than you might think, as most stars are in binary systems. If a star is in a binary pair, how does that affect its life and death? Dr. Katelyn Breivik of Carnegie Mellon University tells us all about these systems and what scientists and other curious minds can learn from them. | 1h 09m 35s | ||||||
| 9/1/24 | ![]() Dr. Kyoungsoo Lee -- Our Galactic Neighborhood | What's the biggest thing in the universe, besides the universe itself? Well, stars live in galaxies, and galaxies live in large collections called galaxy clusters. Astronomers can study these titanic clusters of galaxies to learn about how they grow and merge with each other to assemble the universe we live in today. Dr. Kyoung-Soo Lee takes us on a journey to the largest scales in the cosmos. | 1h 10m 16s | ||||||
| 8/1/24 | ![]() Dr. Jason Wang -- Taking a Photo of an Exoplanet | For centuries, all that we have known about planets was confined to our own solar system, and its occasionally-changing number of planets (eight as of now). But in the past several decades, astronomers have developed increasingly sophisticated techniques for detecting planets outside our solar system, orbiting distant stars many light-years away. Dr. Jason Wang is an innovator who has developed powerful data analysis methods which have allowed us to take direct images of these exoplanets. | 46m 01s | ||||||
| 7/1/24 | ![]() Dr. Rosalba Perna -- The Neighborhood of a Supermassive Black Hole | Planets orbit stars, and moons orbit planets, so what orbits a supermassive black hole? Possibly a whole lot of stuff, including a gaseous disk, thousands of stars and more "normal size" black holes! Dr. Rosalba Perna tells us about all the crazy things that could be orbiting around the supermassive black holes that we detect at the center of active galaxies. | 1h 04m 39s | ||||||
| 6/1/24 | ![]() Dr. Soham Mandal -- What Happens to Supernovae After they Explode? | When a star explodes, it's not finished having an impact on its surroundings. For the next thousand years or so, we can still see it as a supernova remnant, when the explosion has expanded to large enough scales that we can actually resolve an image of the explosion with modern telescopes like JWST, and it's even possible to do a forensic analysis to learn more about the cause of death. We will be talking about supernova remnants with Dr. Soham Mandal, who just recently earned his PhD from Purdue University. | 50m 48s | ||||||
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