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1. AaS! 283: What's Really Going on with UAPs?

   3 november 2026 · 29 min

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   What are UFOs? What are the chances that aliens have visited the Earth? Why should we bother talking about it? I discuss these questions and more in today's Ask a Spaceman! Lees meer

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2. AaS! 282: What Happens When You Shine a Light on Nothing?

   20 oktober 2026 · 21 min

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   How does the vacuum interact with light? Is it possible to use light to create something from nothing? And is "birefringence" a real word? I discuss these questions and more in today's Ask a Spaceman! Lees meer

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3. AaS! 281: What Makes the Scattered Disk So Wild?

   6 oktober 2026 · 27 min

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   How did the scattered disk of the solar system form? What kins of strange objects roam those badlands? And what does it do to the rest of the solar system? I discuss these questions and more in today's Ask a Spaceman! Lees meer

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4. AaS! 280: Wait So We Can Steal Energy from Black Holes?

   22 september 2026 · 27 min

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   What is frame dragging? How do we measure it? And how can we turn this into a method for extracting energy from rotating black holes? I discuss these questions and more in today's Ask a Spaceman! Lees meer

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5. AaS! 279: What Can We Actually Find on an Exoplanet?

   8 september 2026 · 29 min

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   Just how hard are exoplanets observations? What kind of telescope will it take to find life? And how much information can we get out of a single pixel of light? I discuss these questions and more in today's Ask a Spaceman! Lees meer

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6. AaS! 278: What's A Good Story About Chandrasekhar?

   18 augustus 2026 · 36 min

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   What was the big deal about Chandrasekhar's discovery? Why did he meet so much resistance? How is his work tied to everything from supernovae to black holes? I discuss these questions and more in today's Ask a Spaceman! Lees meer

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7. AaS! 277: What's It Like to Travel Near the Speed of Light?

   4 augustus 2026 · 23 min

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   What does high-speed motion through the universe do to your perspective? What is the Rindler horizon, and how does it appear? Would you get vaporized by a high-energy bath of radiation? I discuss these questions and more in today's Ask a Spaceman! Lees meer

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8. AaS! 276: What Would Happen if the Sun…Stopped?

   21 juli 2026 · 27 min

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   What really keeps the Sun shining? How long would it stay warm if fusion stopped? How long would it take before we noticed? I discuss these questions and more in today's Ask a Spaceman! Lees meer

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9. AaS! 275: Why Can't the Universe Be Cyclic?

   7 juli 2026 · 32 min

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   What are the weaknesses of inflation theory? How did the ekpyrotic theory attempt to improve it? How did it open up its own can of worms? I discuss these questions and more in today's Ask a Spaceman! Lees meer

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10. AaS! 274: Is Dust the Best Thing in the Universe?

    23 juni 2026 · 27 min

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    Why is dust so annoying? But where does it come from, and what can it do? And is dust responsible for the creation of life? I discuss these questions and more in today's Ask a Spaceman! Lees meer

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