Astronomy Cast
Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela Gay
Take a fact-based journey through the cosmos. Tune in to hear weekly discussions on astronomical topics ranging from planets to cosmology. Hosted by Fraser Cain (Universe Today) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay (Planetary Science Institute), this show brings the questions of an avid astronomy lover direct to an astronomer. Together Fraser and Pamela explore what is known and being discovered about the universe around us. Astronomy Cast is supported thru patreon.com/AstronomyCast.
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410: Planet Nine - Facts & Fiction
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409: Spin in the Solar System
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408: Universal Cannibalism
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407: Galactic Cannibalism
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406: Stellar Cannibalism
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405: Method Not Found
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404: What We Know, What We Don't Know, & What We Can't Know
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403: Funding Big Science
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402: Gravity Eyes - See the Invisible with the Force
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401: Future Predictions
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400: The State of the Universe
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399: Women in Science
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398: Seeing Things
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397: Why is There Something and Not Nothing?
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396: Family Astronomy for the Holidays
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395: Baryons & Beyond the Standard Model
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394: Bosons
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393: The Standard Model - Leptons & Quarks
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392: The Standard Model
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391: Entropy
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390: Occam's Razor & the Problem with Probabilities
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388: Megastructures
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389: Roundtable with Paul M. Sutter
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387: Water on Mars (Again)
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386: Orbiting Observers
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385: Rovers on the Run
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384: Escaping Probes
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383: Approaches to Absolute Zero
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382: Degenerate Matter
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381: Hollowing Asteroids
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380: The Limits of Optics
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379: Fermi's Atom Splitting
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378: Rutherford Atoms
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377: Thomson Finds the Electron
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376: The Miller-Urey Experiment
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375: The Search for Life in the Solar System, with Morgan Rehnberg
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374: The Stern-Gerlach Experiment
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373: The Becquerel Experiment
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372: The Millikan Oil Drop Experiment
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371: The Eddington Eclipse Experiment
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370: Kaufmann Bucherer Neumann Experiments
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369: The Fizeau Experiment
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368: Searching for the Ether Wind (The Michelson–Morley Experiment)
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367: Spitzer Does Exoplanets
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366: HARPS
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365: Gaia
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364: COROT
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363: Where Did Earth's Water Come From?
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362: Carolyn Porco
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361: Maria Zuber
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