Tag: Astronomy

Deep Sage Nine Starcast Episode 029

Hubble Tension This week’s Starcast dives into the Hubble Tension, exploring how conflicting measurements of the universe’s expansion rate—one from the early cosmos and one from the local universe—challenge the standard model of cosmology and hint at new physics.   Episode Links: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-universe-is-decelerating-and-standard-candles-arent-so-standard-according-to-a-new-study  https://briankoberlein.com/blog/tipping-scale/  https://briankoberlein.com/blog/masering-tale/ 

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Deep Sage Nine Starcast Episode 027

Dark Energy This week’s Starcast dives deep into groundbreaking research suggesting the universe’s expansion is actually slowing down, prompting a major reconsideration of the nature and evolution of dark energy away from the standard cosmological model. Episode Links: https://science.nasa.gov/dark-energy/ https://phys.org/news/2025-11-universe-expansion-evidence-mounts-dark.html https://www.poetry.com/poem/32878/the-great-explosion    

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Deep Sage Nine Starcast Episode 022

This episode of StarCast discusses the intersection of astronomy and wildlife, revealing how migrating birds, sea turtles, and even dung beetles use stellar navigation—like the North Star and the Milky Way—to find their way at night. The hosts also cover current space weather, celestial events like the Zodiacal Light, and issue a call to action […]

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Deep Sage Nine Starcast Episode 021

Balloons in Space!   This week, hosts Jay Shaffer and Mike Lewinski discuss the potential for a G1-class solar storm and what’s visible in the night sky. The episode also delves into astronomical balloons, their scientific applications, and the citizen science projects that use them for research.   Episode Links: Younger Dryad Impact Hypothesis articles […]

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Deep Sage Nine Starcast Episode 018

It’s All Relative This episode explores the fascinating connections between Albert Einstein’s theories of relativity and modern technology, like GPS. The hosts, Jay Shaffer and Mike Lewinski, explain how both special relativity (which deals with time dilation from speed) and general relativity (which explains how gravity warps spacetime) are essential for the accurate functioning of […]

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DeepSage Nine Starcast Episode009

Astronomy on the Cheap Join hosts Jay Shaffer and Mike Lewinski on this week’s Starcast for a deep dive into the universe! We kick things off with a look at the latest space weather, including an aurora forecast. Then, get ready for some lunar magic as the waning crescent moon passes by the Pleiades and […]

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International Meteor Org Features Our Fireball Photo

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Skylapser is proud to be featured on both the American Meteor Society’s and the International Meteor Organization’s Websites this week. The photo of a large fireball over New Mexico was captured by Skylapser’s Cielito Azul Observatory’s all-sky time-lapse camera at 3:55AM MST on Jan. 31, 2019.The photo is featured on the sites for the Meteor […]

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