We share report from ATel 11901 of the first Fast Radio Burst detected with a newly commissioned radio observatory, called “CHIME”.  The Fast Radio Burst  is only 2 milliseconds long, and called FRB 180725A after the calendar date of its detection – Ju...

In this podcast, we first share report  of a new brightening of a YSO – that’s a “Young Stellar Object” – known as EC 53 in Serpens Main, in ATel 11614.  A YSO is a star which is still in the process of formation, undergoing gravitational collapse,

In this podcast, we answer the question – what happens when what you are looking for, isn’t there?  We share two reports, one which looked for — and didn’t find — repeated radio bursts from a previously observed Fast Radio Burster (FRB).  Another,

We share a report of the black hole candidate MAXI J1820+070.  Observations of the source in the X-ray band have tracked its variability – in particular, its QPO (that’s, quasi-periodic oscillations) and found that the frequency is increasing with time...

In this podcast, we share three reports of recent discoveries.  The first is of an optical transient source, ASASSN-18ix. The discovery report suggests the transient is a classical nova- but it can also be a cataclysmic variable; they’re not sure which...

In this podcast, 3C 279 is active. “3C” refers to the “3rd Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Source”, and “279” is this object’s number in that catalog, which was published way back in 1959, when radio astronomical observations were just a toddler.

On today’s podcast, we bring back a past bit character.   You know what this is, don’t you?  When a show suddenly – around episode 5 or so –  turns around, and focuses in on what you thought was a bit character introduced back in episode 2 for five min...

In this podcast, we share two pairs of reports.  In each pair, the topic is somewhat the same – reflected in the title.  But to the astronomer’s way of thinking, the objects are enormously different.  First,

We share reports on one specific object: Swift J1756.9-2508, an accreting, millisecond X-ray pulsar.  It was discovered in June 2007- suddenly bright, as transient sources can be; the 182 Hz X-ray pulsation was quickly discovered, but a month later,

We share three new reports — where the supernova SN Ia 2018aoz is Ultra-Violet bright; the optical and X-ray quasiperiodic oscillations in MAXI J1820+070 are of similar frequency, and astrometry and photometry suggests the Nature of ASASSN-18gq.