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Moiya tells Connie about UV light from its discovery to its uses on Earth. Moiya gets bad news about a beloved actor and Connie comes up with a great circus-related metaphor for our solar system.

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Moiya and ConStar talk about the life and works of Hipparchus, an ancient Greek astronomer who designed the dreaded stellar magnitude system.

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Moiya tells ConStar about the biggest, hottest planets in the universe. Listen to find out why astronomers call them Hot Jupiters, how and where they form, and which celebrity Jupes get invited to walk the coveted blue carpet.

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Moiya and ConStar share what they're grateful for in space. And since you're all space, you should know we're grateful for all of you listeners, too!

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Moiya tells ConStar about the telescope that made the most precise map of the Milky Way galaxy ever... and how it made her cry. ConStar gets a little overwhelmed by the size of the universe and Moiya nerds out over a "fun math derivation" she did in grad school.

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Moiya and ConStar love the Moon! They talk to it, they're grateful for it, and they're here to answer all your questions about it.

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Welcome ConStar to the show!! Moiya leads Connie through a series of games, each more ridiculous than the last.

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• ConStar is a writer, social media expert, and professional nerd. Follow her on IG at @constar24.

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Happy Halloweek, spooky friends! Moiya celebrates this week by telling her bestie ConStar about big, scary monsters out in space. Vampires, ghosts, and krakens, oh my!

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• ConStar is a writer, social media expert, and professional nerd. Follow her on IG at @constar24.

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Supernovae are going to come up in next week's episode, so enjoy this refresher on how and why stars explode!

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Moiya celebrates the pod's 150th episode with a trip down memory lane. She shares her favorite episodes, lessons listeners said they learned, and her plans for the future of the pod!

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Spooky Season is here! And Brandon is helping Moiya pick the scariest exoplanet. From hottest to coldest, darkest to glassiest, listen to find out which planets you should absolutely NOT book for your next vacation.

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• Brandon Grugle is a sound designer, composer, and podcaster who leads production at Multitude. He's hard to find online, but listen to his show Join the Party!

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Moiya and Deboki hop in the time machine to visit interesting events that happened this week in astronomy history. They witness moons being discovered, dates disappearing from the calendar, and NASA opening its doors for the first time.

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• Dr. Deboki Chakravarti is a trained biomedical engineer who co-hosts the Tiny Matters podcast!

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Moiya tells Maria about collisions in space at different scales, from photons to galaxies. Maria points out how the universe is one big reality tv show.

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• Maria DeCotis is a comedian, writer, and actor. Follow her online at @mariadecotis

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Moiya helps Noah plan out his nighttime observing for the next six months. Noah finds out what a supermoon is and Moiya is delighted to learn they both have the same favorite holiday.

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• Noah McTier is a civil engineering student and Moiya's brother

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Moiya tells Julia about the history of telescopes, from ancient Arabic reading stones to mirrors that unfold in space like origami. Then the two imagine their own telescope mission for the future, pending funding...

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• Julia Schifini is a sound designer, voice actor, and podcaster who's worked on Spirits, Join the Party, and Primordial Deep.

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Moiya invites Rory to talk about his black hole-inspired symphony composition and explain how he got musical instruments to sound like event horizons and gravitational time dilation. This episode features a recorded performance by the Yale Symphony Orchestra.

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• Rory Bricca is a musician, conductor, and composer of Active Galactic Nuclei

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Dr. Moiya's Milky Way book is three years old! She celebrated with a public lecture where she talked about milky way myths, galaxy formation, stellar chemistry, black holes, and the galaxy's courtship of nearby Andromeda.

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Correction: The Milky Way is moving at about 200,000 miles per hour, not per second. Oops!

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Moiya and Sean watched the stress-fueled cinematic stunner, Sunshine. They'll tell you what peeved them and thieved their hearts, then rate the movie out of 15 suns.

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• Sean Crespo is an actor, writer, comedian, and half of Space Beach Productions. He's also Moiya's friend and co-star in That's A Lot. Follow Sean on IG @crespoop

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Moiya and Caroline talk about the observatory that detected the first gravitational waves, letting us study the universe using something other than light for the first time ever in human history!

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• Caroline D'Angelo is an astronomer-turned-comedian. Follow her on IG @astronomer625

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