Investigate Space Debris with Dr. Elaina Hyde and Parisa Nozari as we discuss a history of things coming down, and some recent news from the Dragonfly mission, SpaceX and more! The more space junk we have, the higher the danger for astronauts… and earth based humans too.

image credit: AICO Killarney Park Astronomer in Residence 2024 Sunna Withers and Anna Skrinnik took this lovely sky image showing a shooting star.

Julie Tomé and Mary-Helen Armour discuss overlooked events and people like the second moon, the first African American astronomer, and the astronomer whose work Edwin Hubble’s built on. In news: a new measurement of the Hubble Constant and some interesting science performed on a meteorite found in a drawer at a university.

Episode image credite: Sunna Withers/AICO

This episode is a dive into science and science fiction with space launches from the past. We travel through the 70s (and a bit of the 50s) with space launches from Mariner, Voyager, Pioneer, and more. Join Elaina and Mary-Helen for this literal blast into space!

Image credit: NASA, The Voyager 1 aboard the Titan III/Centaur lifted off on September 5, 1977, joining its sister spacecraft, the Voyager 2, on a mission to the outer planets.

Join Sunna and Elaina for a spooky journey into exploded stars in the forms of supernovae and creepy comets. We discuss some of the astronomical history of Halloween, a few famous events, a few dead comets, and of course the most recent supernova from JWST.

Image Credit: A live view of Comet A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS from AICO 1m on 16 October 2024. E.A. Hyde, AICO. The mini livestream can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/live/4gyuf9Dvv60?si=MU1KvGVna6vziPbD

The sun is at solar maximum and we have a slew of hot stars to cover. Join Julie and Elaina for a stellar trip down memory lane as we talk about stars in the Milky Way, strangeness and new stars with strange properties.

Episode art: GPX 1b - exoplanet, image credit Nakul Sethuram, AICO, 2024

Robin Metcalfe takes the host chair and gathers former players of York University Faculty of Science softball teams IR Sox, the Expose and Comets in an exploration of career paths that a degree in science at York University can take you.

Episode art: Warren Fisher

This episode is a ‘sandwich’ of co-hosts, Robin and Ryan both talk about their Astronomer in Residence experience out at Killarney Park (with the AICO), and we discuss viewing and comets, in particular the upcoming comet A3 and the discovery by Maria Mitchell back in 1847.

Image Credit: C2023/E1 Green Comet, 1m, AICO, EHyde

Gagan Sidhu and Sunna Withers discuss important Canadian and Ontario space history, and current news including new images from JWST and the Starliner.

Image Credit: 2021 Mars 1m Malincam, AICO, June Parsons.