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Episode 121: No Country for Old Material
In this episode, we take a break from our usual astronomical antics to reflect on sustainability in the cosmos. Cormac, Cole and Shashank explore how the Universe manages to recycle material across…
Episode 120: Old Galaxies, New Problems
We’ve known about the existence of galaxies for about a hundred years, but how well do we actually know the extragalactic universe? In today’s episode, we dive deep on the earliest galaxies in the…
Episode 119: Gravitational Vibes
In this episode, we dive into the ripples of spacetime with a special focus on gravitational waves. Cole and Cormac are joined by a new host, Sanika, who introduces her research in gravitational wave…
Episode 118: Star-studded submissions
In this episode, as we (at the time of recording) approach Astronomy’s (JWST) awards season, Cormac and Cole shed some light on just how ideas become astronomical datasets. Our two putative principal…
Episode 117: A Field Day
In this episode, we move away from point particles to talk about fields. Shashank, Cole and Cormac start with a discussion of different kinds of fields in astrophysics. Then, Cole describes Lagrange…
Episode 116: Love’s Gonna Get you killed, but Tide’s gonna be the death of you
In our valentines’ day special, Shashank, Cole, and Cormac explore the dating lives of stars and other compact objects by looking at the romantic couples of astrophysics: binary systems. Immediately…
Episode 115: Star Wrapped Holiday Special
Apply to join us as a co-host! https://astrosoundbites.com/recruiting-2025 In today’s extra-special seasonal episode, Cormac, Lucia and Shashank share some of their highly curated metrics inspired by…
Episode 114: A World of Disc-overy
Apply to join us as a co-host! https://astrosoundbites.com/recruiting-2025 This week, Shashank, Cole, and Cormac dive into the many disks of the universe, from planet-forming disks to AGN and…
Episode 113: Black Holes? Here? It’s more likely than you think.
Episode 113: Black Holes? Here? It’s more likely than you think. In today’s episode, Cole, Cormac, and Shashank celebrate our glorious return from hiatus by tackling an astronomical favorite: black…
Episode 112.5: Extremely Looming Trouble?
In today’s mini-episode, Cormac highlights how a proposed industrial megaproject threatens the pristine observing conditions at Paranal Observatory - home of the European Southern Observatory’s Very…
Episode 112: It’s not fun to be in a YMC, eh?
Episode 112: It’s not fun to be in a YMC, eh? Apply to join us as a co-host! https://astrosoundbites.com/recruiting-2025 In today’s episode, Cormac, Shashank and Lucia come together to crack open the…
Episode 111: Mergers for Nothing and Your Chirps for Free
The only thing better than studying the largest compact objects in the universe is smashing them together. In this episode, Lucia, Shashank, and Cole cover binary black hole mergers and what these…
Episode 110: Bayesian Biosignatures
Apply to join us as a co-host! https://astrosoundbites.com/recruiting-2025 This week, Shashank, Cole and Cormac discuss a concept that has come up on many an ASB episode past: Bayesian statistics.…
Episode 109: Big, Small and In-Between
Apply to join us as a co-host! https://astrosoundbites.com/recruiting-2025 This week, Lucia, Cole and Cormac discuss cosmic sandwich kids: intermediate mass black holes. Where are they hiding? How do…
Episode 108: 2000 Meters Under The Mediterranean
This week, Lucia, Cormac, and Shashank dive into the depth of the Mediterranean Sea to discover more about the most energetic neutrino measured to date, which had an energy of a whooping 120 PeV!…
Episode 107: Things That Go Blip in the Night
The more things change, the more they, uh, change. This episode Cole, Shashank, and Cormac cover the exciting events that change what we see on the night sky. Ancient astronomers tracked the motions…
Episode 106: Sabrina’s Super Sad Sendoff
In this episode, we say goodbye to one of our beloved hosts, Sabrina Berger. We take a voyage through the depths and breadths of Sabrina’s research experience. Cole tells us how Sabrina investigates…
Episode 105.5: NASA Needs Your Help!
In this episode, the (domestic) American sector of Astro[sound]bites covers the recent proposed budget cuts to NASA, the largest in NASA’s entire history. We cover the downsides that these cuts would…
Episode 105: Citizen Brain
In today’s episode, Cormac, Cole and Lucia catch you up with all things Citizen Science. In the epoch of ChatGPT, Grok and Gemini (no, not the telescope), it’s easy to forget about the 20 Watt…
Episode 104: Star Destroyers
That stars die will be old news for most listeners. But sometimes, stars don’t just die, they get ripped apart by supermassive black holes. Cormac, Cole and Lucia discuss these so-called tidal…
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