Cheap Astronomy Podcasts
By: Steve Nerlich
Language: en-us
Categories: Science, Medicine, Natural, Education
Cheap Astronomy offers you 10 minute weekly podcasts on a wide range of astronomy and space exploration topics.
Episodes
364.1 Late Heavy Bombardment - 27 October 2025
Oct 27, 2025Just when you thought it was all over.
Duration: 00:00:00364. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 133 - 20 October 2025
Oct 20, 2025Shining a light.
Duration: 00:00:00363.2 Planet positions 2of2 - 13 October 2025
Oct 13, 2025How we think we know how.
Duration: 00:00:00363.1 Planet positions 1of2 - 6 October 2025
Oct 06, 2025How we got to where we are.
Duration: 00:00:00363. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 132 - 29 September 2025
Sep 29, 2025Bringing it home.
Duration: 00:00:00362.2 Oort cloud - 22 September 2025
Sep 22, 2025It ought to be there.
Duration: 00:00:00362.1 Entropic gravity - 15 September 2025
Sep 15, 2025Don't fall for it.
Duration: 00:00:00362. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 131 - 8 September 2025
Sep 08, 2025Being here.
Duration: 00:00:00361.2 Artemis update - 1 September 2025
Sep 01, 2025Getting there.
Duration: 00:00:00361.1 Smart phone science - 25 August 2025
Aug 25, 2025Pocket tricorder.
Duration: 00:00:00361. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 130 - 18 Aug 2025
Aug 18, 2025Still to come.
Duration: 00:00:00360.2 Building a lunar colony Pt.2 - 11 Aug 2025
Aug 11, 2025Building uncertainty.
Duration: 00:00:00360.1 Building a lunar colony Pt.1 - 4 Aug 2025
Aug 04, 2025Building optimism.
Duration: 00:00:00360. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 129 - 28 July 2025
Jul 28, 2025Rocks, big and small.
Duration: 00:00:00359. Implausible Engineering - Episode 07 - 21 July 2025
Jul 21, 2025Doubtful mechanics.
Duration: 00:00:00358.2 Crashing asteroids (again) Pt.2 - 7 July 2025
Jul 07, 2025Another episode with impact.
Duration: 00:00:00358.1 Crashing asteroids (again) Pt.1 - 30 June 2025
Jun 30, 2025An episode with impact.
Duration: 00:00:00358. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 128 - 23 June 2025
Jun 23, 2025Still looking.
Duration: 00:00:00357.3 Types of mass - 16 June 2025
Jun 16, 2025Heavy stuff.
Duration: 00:00:00357.2 Alternatives to CSOTM - 9 June 2025
Jun 09, 2025What else is there.
Duration: 00:00:00357.1 IE16: Artificial omniscience - 2 June 2025
Jun 02, 2025Know-it alls.
Duration: 00:00:00357. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 127 - 26 May 2025
May 26, 2025Well...
Duration: 00:00:00356.3 Near-infrared astronomy - 19 May 2025
May 19, 2025Smoke gets in your eyes.
Duration: 00:00:00356.2 The Fermi Paradox (again) - 12 May 2025
May 12, 2025Where is everyone?
Duration: 00:00:00356.1 Radioactive heating - 5 May 2025
May 05, 2025Keeping warm.
Duration: 00:00:00356. Implausible Engineering - Episode 06 - 28 April 2025
Apr 28, 2025Immortality is hard work.
Duration: 00:00:00355. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 126 - 21 April 2025
Apr 21, 2025Digging deeper.
Duration: 00:00:00354.3 Cosmic Rays Pt. 3 - 14 April 2025
Apr 14, 2025The really nasty ones.
Duration: 00:00:00354.2 Cosmic Rays Pt. 2 - 7 April 2025
Apr 07, 2025The shielding options are not glamorous.
Duration: 00:00:00354.1 Cosmic Rays Pt. 1 - 31 March 2025
Mar 31, 2025Space radiation.
Duration: 00:00:00354. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 125 - 24 March 2025
Mar 24, 2025Those tricky next steps.
Duration: 00:00:00353.2 The inconstancy of tides - 17 March 2025
Mar 17, 2025Sometimes, there's two a day... sometimes.
Duration: 00:00:00353.1 How big is the Solar System? - 10 March 2025
Mar 10, 2025As big as it is large.
Duration: 00:00:00353. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 124 - 3 March 2025
Mar 03, 2025Are we alone, and if so can we have all the planets?
Duration: 00:00:00352.2 The wait calculation - 24 February 2025
Feb 24, 2025Stand by.
Duration: 00:00:00352.1 Neutron star mountains - 17 February 2025
Feb 17, 2025Insurmountable.
Duration: 00:00:00352. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 123 - 10 February 2025
Feb 10, 2025Asking questions and not always answering them.
Duration: 00:00:00351.3 Solar flares - 3 February 2025
Feb 03, 2025Star bursts.
Duration: 00:00:00351.2 How stupid is it to crash asteroids on the Moon - 27 January 2025
Jan 27, 2025Stupid and stupider.
Duration: 00:00:00351.1 Timescape cosmology - 20 January 2025
Jan 20, 2025A timely change in perspective.
Duration: 00:00:00351. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 122 - 13 January 2025
Jan 13, 2025Strange new worlds.
Duration: 00:00:00350.3 Planetary defence - 6 January 2025
Jan 06, 2025Dodging disaster.
Duration: 00:00:00350.2 Implausible Engineering - Advanced propulsion drives - 30 December 2024
Dec 30, 2024Getting around faster, maybe.
Duration: 00:00:00350.1 Fermi paradox - 23 December 2024
Dec 23, 2024Missing beings.
Duration: 00:00:00350. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 121 - 16 December 2024
Dec 16, 2024Very dense and podcastable.
Duration: 00:00:00349.3 Gravity assist maneuvers - 9 December 2024
Dec 09, 2024A helping hand.
Duration: 00:00:00349.2 Closed ecological life support systems - 2 December 2024
Dec 02, 2024Life in a tin can.
Duration: 00:00:00349.1 First contact - 25 November 2024
Nov 25, 2024An unlikely proposition.
Duration: 00:00:00349. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 120 - 18 November 2024
Nov 18, 2024Looking askance.
Duration: 00:00:00348. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 119 - 21 October 2024
Oct 21, 2024Space travel or the lack thereof.
Duration: 00:00:00347. Implausible Engineering - Episode 05 - 14 October 2024
Oct 14, 2024Too much is never enough.
Duration: 00:00:00346. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 118 - 23 September 2024
Sep 23, 2024Self-consciousness.
Duration: 00:00:00345. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 117 - 26 August 2024
Aug 26, 2024Stumbling around in the dark again.
Duration: 00:00:00344. Implausible Engineering - Episode 04 - 29 July 2024
Jul 29, 2024Something stupid.
Duration: 00:00:00343. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 116 - 22 July 2024
Jul 22, 2024Our very big home.
Duration: 00:00:00342. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 115 - 24 June 2024
Jun 24, 2024Two steps (at least).
Duration: 00:00:00341. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 114 - 27 May 2024
May 27, 2024Making sense of things.
Duration: 00:00:00340. Implausible Engineering - Episode 03 - 29 April 2024
Apr 29, 2024We all need some space.
Duration: 00:00:00339. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 113 - 22 April 2024
Apr 22, 2024We've plundered Earth, what's next?
Duration: 00:00:00338. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 112 - 25 March 2024
Mar 25, 2024Next steps, if we don't trip first.
Duration: 00:00:00337. Implausible Engineering - Episode 02 - 18 March 2024
Mar 18, 2024Robots like us.
Duration: 00:00:00336. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 111 - 19 February 2024
Feb 19, 2024Practically.
Duration: 00:00:00335. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 110 - 22 January 2024
Jan 22, 2024Robots are doing it for themselves.
Duration: 00:00:00334. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 109 - 25 December 2023
Dec 25, 2023Things that orbit the Sun and clear their orbits.
Duration: 00:00:00333. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 108 - 27 November 2023
Nov 27, 2023Building the future.
Duration: 00:00:00332. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 107 - 23 October 2023
Oct 23, 2023A mining proposal.
Duration: 00:00:00331. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 106 - 25 September 2023
Sep 25, 2023Very small rocks.
Duration: 00:00:00330. Fantastic Physics Formulas - Episode 10 - 4 September 2023
Sep 04, 2023Blowing off some steam.
Duration: 00:00:00329. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 105 - 28 August 2023
Aug 28, 2023Staying alive.
Duration: 00:00:00328. Implausible Engineering - Episode 01 - 24 July 2023
Jul 24, 2023An unlikely creation.
Duration: 00:00:00327. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 104 - 3 July 2023
Jul 03, 2023Checking out the neighbors.
Duration: 00:00:00326. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 103 - 12 June 2023
Jun 12, 2023What can the anti-matter be?
Duration: 00:00:00325. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 102 - 15 May 2023
May 15, 2023The Moon or bust.
Duration: 00:00:00324. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 101 - 17 April 2023
Apr 17, 2023More star stuff.
Duration: 00:00:00323. Fantastic Physics Formulas - Episode 9 - 20 March 2023
Mar 20, 2023Expanding and lifting.
Duration: 00:00:00322. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 100 - 6 March 2023
Mar 06, 2023Oh, nothing.
Duration: 00:00:00321. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 99 - 20 February 2023
Feb 20, 2023Making the new old again.
Duration: 00:00:00320. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 98 - 23 January 2023
Jan 23, 2023Keeping your house in order.
Duration: 00:00:00319.1 Life in Spacetime, Episode 3 - 16 January 2023
Jan 16, 2023What a wonderful worldline.
Duration: 00:00:00319. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 97 - 21 November 2022
Nov 21, 2022You can't have everything.
Duration: 00:00:00318. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 96 - 17 October 2022
Oct 17, 2022Next steps.
Duration: 00:00:00317. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 95 - 12 September 2022
Sep 12, 2022Noise without sound.
Duration: 00:00:00316. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 94 - 22 August 2022
Aug 22, 2022We enlarge upon enlargement.
Duration: 00:00:00315. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 93 - 18 July 2022
Jul 18, 2022Crafting spacecraft.
Duration: 00:00:00314. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 92 - 6 June 2022
Jun 06, 2022The next frontier.
Duration: 00:00:00313. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 91 - 16 May 2022
May 16, 2022Things that go kablooie.
Duration: 00:00:00312.1. Snippet_Implausible engineering - Episode 10 - 25 April 2022
Apr 25, 2022Vague voyages.
Duration: 00:00:00312. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 90 - 11 April 2022
Apr 11, 2022Next steps, maybe.
Duration: 00:00:00311. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 89 - 21 March 2022
Mar 21, 2022To boldly speculate.
Duration: 00:00:00310.2 Snippet_Life in spacetime 2 - 14 March 2022
Mar 14, 2022Spacetime - one word.
Duration: 00:00:00310.1. The lift equation - 28 February 2022
Feb 28, 2022An uplifting episode.
Duration: 00:00:00310. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 88 - 14 February 2022
Feb 14, 2022Not surety.
Duration: 00:00:00309. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 87 - 24 January 2022
Jan 24, 2022Elementary.
Duration: 00:00:00308.1. Snippet_Implausible engineering - Episode 9 - 17 January 2022
Jan 17, 2022Fuzzy focus.
Duration: 00:00:00308. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 86 - 3 January 2022
Jan 03, 2022When you need some space.
Duration: 00:00:00307. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 85 - 27 December 2021
Dec 27, 2021Don't presume to assume.
Duration: 00:00:00306.1 Snippet_Life in spacetime 1 - 20 December 2021
Dec 20, 2021The Universe has a speed limit.
Duration: 00:00:00306. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 84 - 22 November 2021
Nov 22, 2021Well, not really.
Duration: 00:00:00305. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 83 - 1 November 2021
Nov 01, 2021Back in black.
Duration: 00:00:00303. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 81 - 13 September 2021
Sep 13, 2021Old horizons.
Duration: 00:00:00