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Star Trails: From Backyard Astronomy to Cosmic Wonder

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Star Trails: From Backyard Astronomy to Cosmic Wonder

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Is there a Black Hole in Our Backyard?

July 04, 2026 11:00pm 21 min

What if the mysterious "Planet Nine" isn't a planet at all?In this episode, we journey to the distant frontier of our Solar System to explore one of astronomy's strangest modern hypotheses: the possibility that the unsee...

How Jupiter Almost Destroyed the Solar System

June 20, 2026 11:00pm 23 min

For generations, we've pictured the Solar System as a stable and orderly place: planets forming where they are today and quietly orbiting the Sun for billions of years. But what if that picture is wrong?In this episode, ...

A Summer Sky Road Trip

June 06, 2026 11:00pm 30 min

Summer is almost here, and with it comes one of the richest observing seasons of the year.In this episode, we take a road trip through the summer sky, exploring the constellations, deep-sky objects, planets, meteor showe...

From the Archive: Star Party Stories

May 30, 2026 11:00pm 17 min

Back in November of 2024, I attended a star party hosted by the Midlands Astronomy Club and recorded what became one of my favorite episodes of Star Trails. This week, while taking a short break to recharge and prepare f...

The Birth and Death of Galaxies

May 23, 2026 11:00pm 29 min

This week we conclude our month-long journey through galaxies by exploring one of the biggest questions in astronomy: how galaxies are born, evolve, and eventually die.We begin in the aftermath of the Big Bang, tracing h...

The Hidden Universe: Cosmic Structures in the Dark

May 16, 2026 11:00pm 21 min

This week we continue our month-long journey through the world of galaxies, but this time, we venture into one of astronomy’s darkest frontiers. Beyond the glowing spirals and brilliant star clouds lies a universe filled...

When Galaxies Collide

May 09, 2026 11:00pm 29 min

This week we continue our month-long journey through the world of galaxies, but this time, we move beyond what galaxies are and explore what galaxies actually do. It turns out these vast islands of stars are anything but...

Where the Milky Way Begins… and Ends

May 02, 2026 11:00pm 23 min

This week, we begin a new month-long journey into one of the most awe-inspiring subjects in astronomy: Galaxies.We start close to home by exploring our own galaxy, the Milky Way, and asking a deceptively simple question:...

The Invisible Architecture of the Universe, with Dr. Enrique Lopez Rodriguez

April 25, 2026 11:00pm 38 min

In this episode we step behind the scenes of modern astronomy to explore a side of the universe you can’t see, at least not directly.We sit down with Professor Enrique López Rodríguez, an extragalactic astronomer at the ...

From Gears to Code: Computing the Cosmos

April 18, 2026 11:00pm 22 min

In this episode, we explore the role of computers in astronomy. From the ancient Antikythera Mechanism and the human “computers” of the Harvard College Observatory, to the rise of electronic machines, supercomputers like...

Radio Astronomy: Listening to the Universe

April 11, 2026 11:00pm 26 min

In this episode, we move beyond what the eye can see and into a universe that has been quietly speaking all along.Radio astronomy has transformed our understanding of the cosmos, not by capturing images, but by detecting...

Space Oddity: The Harmony of Isolation

April 07, 2026 11:00pm 24 min

What makes a song feel like space? In this special bonus episode of Star Trails, we take a deep dive into the song "Space Oddity," not just as a piece of music, but as a story of distance, disconnection, and drift.Releas...

Photon by Photon: A Journey Through Observatories

April 04, 2026 11:00pm 25 min

This week we step inside one of astronomy’s most iconic spaces: the observatory.Drew visits Melton Memorial Observatory and sits down with director Martin Bowers to explore what a nearly 100-year-old, urban observatory s...

The Edge of the Solar System

March 28, 2026 11:00pm 17 min

This week we leave the familiar planets behind and venture into the farthest reaches of our Solar System, into regions where the Sun’s influence begins to fade and the boundaries of our cosmic neighborhood grow uncertain...

Moons: The Solar System’s Secret Worlds

March 21, 2026 11:00pm 25 min

The most intriguing places in our solar system might not be planets at all. This week we turn our attention to some of the most fascinating and unusual worlds in our solar system: its moons.For most of human history, we ...

The Case of Pluto: Discovery, Demotion, and Redemption

March 14, 2026 11:00pm 26 min

In 2006, a group of astronomers gathered in Prague and made a decision that shocked the world: Pluto was no longer a planet.But the story of Pluto is far more complicated—and far more fascinating—than that single vote.In...

Beyond the Frost Line: The Giant Planets of Our Solar System

March 07, 2026 11:00pm 30 min

This week we leave the rocky inner planets behind and journey into the deep cold of the outer solar system. From the storm-wracked atmosphere of Jupiter to the ringed elegance of Saturn and the mysterious ice giants Uran...

Four Worlds, One Sun; Plus, a Total Lunar Eclipse

February 28, 2026 11:00pm 27 min

In this milestone 100th episode of Star Trails, we bring the cosmos back home.After months of exploring distant stars, nebulae, and black holes, March begins with a tour of our own neighborhood: Mercury, Venus, Earth, an...

How Stars Die (Including the One That Keeps Us Alive)

February 21, 2026 11:00pm 22 min

In this episode, we wrap up our month-long series on stars by exploring their final acts.Most stars don’t explode. They grow old. We’ll follow the Sun’s future as it swells into a red giant, sheds its outer layers, and b...

The Quiet Majority of Stars

February 14, 2026 11:00pm 29 min

This week we take a nerdy detour into the lives of stars by building a tiny simulated galaxy in Python. We form half a million stars, roll the clock forward 10 billion years, and discover something counterintuitive: near...

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