Star Trails: A Weekly Astronomy Podcast · Single Malt Sky

Echoes from the Cosmic Graveyard

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A teaspoon of neutron star matter outweighs a mountain, and these rotating corpses tick like cosmic clocks, once mistaken for little green men.

Host Drew guides listeners through a late-October night sky, highlighting planetary positions and the Orionid meteor shower, before delving into a listener question about common black hole imagery. The episode then explores the 'cosmic graveyard,' explaining the afterlife of stars as white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes, and contemplating the eventual heat death of the universe.

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