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A podcast that delves into the newest astronomy papers from astro-ph on the arXiv

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  • 22nd Dec 2025

    Episode 27: Making a Milky Way, searching for dwarfs, and elusive black holes

    Episode 27: Making a Milky Way, searching for dwarfs, and elusive black holes

    In this episode, Michelle and Payel explore various astrophysical topics, including the Solar birth cluster, young stars, the formation of intermediate mass black holes, and the universe’s decelerated expansion. They also discuss strong lens detection by Euclid and solar flare predictions.

  • 7th Dec 2025

    Episode 26: A tail of tales, little galaxies, and starspots

    Episode 26: A tail of tales, little galaxies, and starspots

    In this episode, Michelle and Payel explore various astrophysical topics, including the Solar birth cluster, young stars, the formation of intermediate mass black holes, and the universe’s decelerated expansion. They also discuss strong lens detection by Euclid and solar flare predictions.

  • 24th Nov 2025

    Episode 25: Extragalactic exoplanets, simulating individual stars, and galaxy mergers as cosmic ray factories

    Episode 25: Extragalactic exoplanets, simulating individual stars, and galaxy mergers as cosmic ray factories

    In this episode, Michelle and Payel explore various astrophysical topics, including the Solar birth cluster, young stars, the formation of intermediate mass black holes, and the universe’s decelerated expansion. They also discuss strong lens detection by Euclid and solar flare predictions.

  • 12th Nov 2025

    Episode 24: Strong lenses, Solar Flares and young, high alpha stars

    Episode 24: Strong lenses, Solar Flares and young, high alpha stars

    In this episode, Michelle and Payel explore various astrophysical topics, including the Solar birth cluster, young stars, the formation of intermediate mass black holes, and the universe’s decelerated expansion. They also discuss strong lens detection by Euclid and solar flare predictions.

  • 27th Oct 2025

    Episode 23 – Failed galaxies, faint galaxies, and the proto-Galaxy

    In this episode, Michelle and Nicole explore the chemistry of faint galaxies and RR-Lyrae stars, tracing the proto-Galaxy, discussing the failure of some galaxies, examining quasi-stars in relation to Little Red Dots, and discussing whether UNIONS 1 is a galaxy or a star cluster. Listen on major podcast platforms.

  • 13th Oct 2025

    Episode 22 – ORCs, rings, and Galactic histories 

    In this episode, Payel and Nicole discuss what happens to the metallicity gradient of a satellite galaxy after it merges with its host, the existence of intermediate-age RR lyrae and radio rings, the possibility of determining the history of the inner Milky Way from radially migrated stars, and the possibility of finding more Einstein rings…

  • 12th Oct 2025

    Episode 21 – Mercury, chemistry and quasi periodic eruptions 

    Episode 21 – Mercury, chemistry and quasi periodic eruptions 

    In this episode, Michelle and Nicole explore various astronomical topics, including merger debris around a galaxy, metal-mixing in early stars, quasi-periodic eruptions in Ansky, relic galaxies, Mercury’s magnetosphere, and second-generation stars in globular clusters. Tune in on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or other platforms for more insights.

  • 15th Sep 2025

    Episode 20 – Dark galaxies, black holes, star formation and life in the faintest galaxies?

    Episode 20 – Dark galaxies, black holes, star formation and life in the faintest galaxies?

    In this episode of StarXiv, Michelle and Payel discuss black holes, feedback-free star formation, dark galaxies, runaway dwarf galaxies, and exploring the potential for life in the faintest galaxies. Accessible on major podcast platforms.

  • 1st Sep 2025

    Episode 19 – Peering into the Local Universe, distant black holes, forming planets and alien signatures

    In this episode, Michelle and Payel explore the chemistry of nearby M-dwarf stars and the formation of giant planets at significant distances from their hosts. They discuss supermassive black holes and the search for alien technosignatures. Relevant research papers discussed are also highlighted for further reading.

  • 18th Aug 2025

    Episode 18 – disks, disks and more disks!

    In this episode, Michelle and Nicole dissect 5 papers, and accidentally find a common theme: disks! Whether in low mass galaxies, giant low surface brightness galaxies, the rotation curves of spirals or the natal environment of planetary systems, disks really are all around us. They also discuss the differences in chemistries between globular clusters that…

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