astro[sound]bites

<p>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 investigators...

<p>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 points and why...

<p> </p> <p>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 ruining...

<p>Apply to join us as a co-host! https://astrosoundbites.com/recruiting-2025</p> <p>In today’s extra-special seasonal episode, Cormac, Lucia and Shashank share some of their highly curated metrics inspired by Spotify...

<p>Apply to join us as a co-host! https://astrosoundbites.com/recruiting-2025</p> <p> </p> <p>This week, Shashank, Cole, and Cormac dive into the many disks of the universe, from planet-forming disks to AGN and galactic...

<p>Episode 113: Black Holes? Here? It’s more likely than you think.</p> <p> </p> <p>In today’s episode, Cole, Cormac, and Shashank celebrate our glorious return from hiatus by tackling an astronomical favorite: black...

<p>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 Large Telescope...

<p>Episode 112: It’s not fun to be in a YMC, eh?</p> <p>Apply to join us as a co-host! https://astrosoundbites.com/recruiting-2025</p> <p>In today’s episode, Cormac, Shashank and Lucia come together to crack open the...

<p>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 violent events can...

<p>Apply to join us as a co-host! https://astrosoundbites.com/recruiting-2025</p> <p> </p> <p>This week, Shashank, Cole and Cormac discuss a concept that has come up on many an ASB episode past: Bayesian statistics...

<p >Apply to join us as a co-host! https://astrosoundbites.com/recruiting-2025</p> <p >This week, Lucia, Cole and Cormac discuss cosmic sandwich kids: intermediate mass black holes. Where are they hiding? How do they...

<p>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! They then pay a...

<p>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 of the planets...

<p>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 JWST’s ability to...

<p>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 have for science...