Jacqueline Goldstein talk’s about Hawking Radiation in honor of the late Stephen Hawking, the world renown theoretical physicist, popular scientists, and disability activist who died last week on March 14th. Learn more: https://phys.org/news/2018-03-black-holes-totally-insights-stephen.html

Erika K. Carlson and Brianna Smart discuss the recent announcement of the first observations made of the universe’s earliest stars. Sources: http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/03/fingerprinting-the-very-first-stars https://gizmodo.com/scientists-discover-long-sought-evidence-of-first-stars-1823388372

Erika K. Carlson and Zach Pace discuss Saturn’s moon Titan and its lakes of methane and ethane. According to data from the Cassini mission, Titan appears to have a sea level, like Earth does. Source: http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/01/cassini-uncovers-a-sea-level-on-titan-similar-to-earth

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