Category: Episodes
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Episode 15 – Flare-inducing planets, avoiding catastrophe, and accreted star clusters
In this episode, Michelle and Payel delve into topics including long period pulsars, population III galaxies, and Galactic archaeology. They discuss noteworthy research on metal-free galaxies, stellar flares caused by close-in planets, and more. Listen on major podcast platforms and chech out the links to discussed papers.
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Episode 14 – A cosmic owl, misaligned planetary systems, and the Milky Way as an outlier
In this episode, we had Payel and Nicole filling in for Michelle who’s away on holiday. Nicole is a PhD student, also at the University of Surrey Astrophysics research group. They discuss the direct detection of HI beyond the local universe, how the Milky Way seems unusually cold, a planetary system with two misaligned planets,…
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Episode 13 – Missing Europium, Pluto’s craters, 43,000 Goblins and some Pop III stars
In this episode, Michelle and Payel discuss why dark matter halos have a Universal density profile, how to age-date Pluto’s surface with craters, delayed Pop III star formation, dwarf candidates in the UNIONS survey, a problem with Europium and whether Little Red Dots are really AGN. Listen below, on Spotify, Apple podcasts or wherever you…
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Episode 12 – Signs of life, little red dots and the links between star clusters and high redshift galaxies
This episode, Michelle and Payel are very on-theme as they discuss whether Little Red Dots can be explained by super Eddington accretion; the high abundances of nitrogen to oxygen in the most distant galaxies and whether this is tied to globular cluster formation; the stellar graveyard in galaxies, and claims of signs of life in…
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Episode 11: Whirling planes, wandering black holes and alien supernovae
In this episode, Michelle and Payel discuss whether wandering intermediate black holes are mythical or not, how planes of satellites may form from cosmic accretion, how to form double hot Jupiters, whether Kelper’s supernova remnant is an ‘alien’, whether Unions I is the faintest star cluster or the faintest galaxy, and just how old our…
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Episode 10 – Mixing dark matter, surviving black holes and hunting for planets
This episode, Michelle and Payel delve into the latest constraints on mixed dark matter from the Lyman alpha forest, what happens to stars that get a little too close to a black hole, how machine learning can help identify stars likely to host an Earth-like planet, studying the dark ages from the Moon and witnessing…
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Episode 3: December
In this episode, Payel and Michelle discuss six papers covering topics like ultra-diffuse galaxies, the Omega Centauri cluster, and insights from JWST. The extended podcast aims to explore diverse research while transitioning to biweekly episodes in the New Year, maintaining a 30-minute format. They’ll return in 2025.
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Episode 2: October
This month, Payel and Michelle sit down to discuss a range of exciting new results including a disappearing star, news moons of Uranus, star formation in extremely metal poor galaxies and unusual young stars in the Milky Way disk. Plus, we make a plug for the extremely useful local_volume_database project. Papers discussed this month: The…
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Episode 1: The pilot!
In our first podcast, we sit down to discuss a few papers from September, including a trio of new galaxies, the initial mass function, the building blocks of the Milky Way and are we alone in the Universe? Papers in this month’s episode: Three Quenched, Faint Dwarf Galaxies in the Direction of NGC 300: New…
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