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Podcast Profile: Pale Blue Pod

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138 episodes
2022 to 2025
Median: 54 minutes
Collection: Physics, Math, and Astronomy

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The podcast "Pale Blue Pod" explores the wonders of astronomy and space science in an engaging and accessible manner. Hosted by astrophysicist Dr. Moiya McTier and comedian Corinne Caputo, this series is designed for listeners who are intrigued but sometimes bewildered by the vastness of the universe. Each episode typically features a specific topic related to space or science communication, often supplemented with humorous and spirited discussions. Themes like cosmic phenomena, scientific missions, and the intersection of culture and space repeatedly appear throughout the podcast.

The show incorporates both educational elements and entertainment, aiming to demystify complex subjects such as dark matter, the mechanics of space flight, and the intricacies of the cosmos. Guest appearances by writers, comedians, and subject matter experts add depth and diversity to the conversations, bringing unique perspectives and insights. Episodes often delve into the myths, history, and contemporary developments associated with astronomy, reflecting on both scientific achievements and the cultural significance of celestial bodies.

Listeners can expect to hear a mix of factual information, storytelling, and humor, with discussions ranging from the technical nuances of telescopes and space missions to more philosophical inquiries about the universe's mysteries. The podcast frequently highlights key historical figures in astronomy, reviews related media, and touches upon interdisciplinary topics involving science fiction and data science. Ultimately, "Pale Blue Pod" aims to make the cosmos feel more approachable and less intimidating, providing a space for both education and light-hearted entertainment.

Episodes:

Moonraker Review with Dr. Claire Aubin 2025-Jun-16 66 minutes

Tiny Space Matters with Dr. Sam Jones 2025-Jun-09 55 minutes

Space x Visual Art with J Wright 2025-Jun-02 63 minutes

April Fools Papers with Wow If True 2025-May-26 59 minutes

A Day at NASA Goddard 2025-May-19 62 minutes

Rerun: Carl Sagan in a Barn 2025-May-12 54 minutes

Mesoamerican Astronomy with Keenan Steiner 2025-May-05 69 minutes

Rerun: Kepler on Swan Lake 2025-Apr-28 51 minutes

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with Christina Kann 2025-Apr-21 69 minutes

Data Science with Dr. Andrea Jones-Rooy 2025-Apr-14 68 minutes

Newton's Laws with Bijou Kabeya 2025-Apr-07 59 minutes

Birthcharts with Charmeé Taylor 2025-Mar-31 54 minutes

Audience Q&A with Mayanna Berrin 2025-Mar-24 87 minutes

Dark Energy with Chris Alan 2025-Mar-17 66 minutes

TRAPPIST-1 Planets with Chris Cook 2025-Mar-10 56 minutes

Astronomy Acronyms with Alana Goldstein 2025-Mar-03 50 minutes

Astronomy Conference with Constance Gibbs 2025-Feb-24 72 minutes

Voyager Mission with Alen Kolenovic 2025-Feb-17 61 minutes

Alpha Centauri with Bex Taylor-Klaus 2025-Feb-10 58 minutes

Juno Spacecraft with Charlotte Moroz 2025-Feb-03 56 minutes

Let's play Outer Wilds with Mischa Stanton 2025-Jan-27 78 minutes

Space Safety with Mimi Hayes 2025-Jan-20 60 minutes

Faster Than Light travel with Noah McTier 2025-Jan-13 51 minutes

Einstein's Relativity with Em Löwinger 2025-Jan-06 75 minutes

Interstellar review with Christian Royce 2024-Dec-30 68 minutes

Space x Theater with Victoria Male 2024-Dec-23 66 minutes

December Solstice with Sherrod Small 2024-Dec-16 52 minutes

Dark Matter with Chris Alan 2024-Dec-09 58 minutes

Pale Blue Pod At Night 2024-Dec-06 31 minutes

Space Winds with Sharon Spell 2024-Dec-02 61 minutes

The Sun with Tiffanee Lee 2024-Nov-25 72 minutes

Space News with Mayanna Berrin 2024-Nov-18 76 minutes

Apollo Program with Tribble 2024-Nov-11 64 minutes

Leavitt's Law with Orli Matlow 2024-Nov-04 56 minutes

Cosmic horror with Jenna Stoeber 2024-Oct-28 59 minutes

Gravity with Joyelle Nicole Johnson 2024-Oct-21 56 minutes

Corinne's Graduation at the little league stadium 2024-Oct-14 35 minutes

How to Kill an Asteroid with Dr. Robin George Andrews 2024-Oct-07 53 minutes

Earth at Acadia National Park 2024-Sep-30 52 minutes

Distance Ladder at the fire station 2024-Sep-23 43 minutes

Annie Jump Cannon at Rohoboth Beach 2024-Sep-16 46 minutes

Pricey NASA missions at the bank 2024-Sep-09 50 minutes

This Week in Astronomy History 2 2024-Sep-02 40 minutes

Breakthrough Discuss in Oxford 2024-Aug-26 48 minutes

Jupiter Ascending at the dining table 2024-Aug-19 56 minutes

Imagining alien worlds at L2 2024-Aug-12 60 minutes

JWST in a cocktail bar 2024-Aug-05 50 minutes

Uranus in a hot air balloon 2024-Jul-29 49 minutes

Social roundup by the sea 2024-Jul-22 52 minutes

Dr. Beatrice Tinsley in the shire 2024-Jul-15 45 minutes

Publishing with Fraser Cain 2024-Jul-08 74 minutes

Galaxies colliding at the bumper cars track 2024-Jul-01 53 minutes

This Week in Astronomy History #1 2024-Jun-24 45 minutes

Aphelion sky in the ice cream shoppe 2024-Jun-17 47 minutes

Heat in the lecture hall 2024-Jun-10 46 minutes

Venus at the chocolate factory 2024-Jun-03 54 minutes

Paul Movie Review 2024-May-27 49 minutes

STARtorialist with Dr. Emily Rice 2024-May-20 61 minutes

Gemini telescopes at Target Field 2024-May-13 51 minutes

Social roundup on a train 2024-May-06 38 minutes

Galileo in a wine bar 2024-Apr-29 49 minutes

Eclipse Live Show in Erie 2024-Apr-22 87 minutes

April fools papers in the green room 2024-Apr-15 47 minutes

Reminder: Eclipses in a cabin in the woods 2024-Apr-08 55 minutes

Horoscopes on a back country road 2024-Apr-01 42 minutes

Mercury at the boba spot 2024-Mar-25 45 minutes

Armageddon Review by a waterfall 2024-Mar-18 51 minutes

astronomy community with Dra. Nicole Cabrera Salazar 2024-Mar-11 58 minutes

Particles in the Swiss Alps 2024-Mar-04 50 minutes

Social media roundup at a sleepover 2024-Feb-26 41 minutes

Kepler mission on a swan lake 2024-Feb-19 52 minutes

Leap Day in the Irish countryside 2024-Feb-12 55 minutes

AAS Meeting in City Park 2024-Feb-05 73 minutes

American Astronomical Society on Bourbon Street 2024-Jan-29 55 minutes

Planetaria! outside the disco 2024-Jan-22 51 minutes

Neptune in a diner 2024-Jan-15 42 minutes

Laws of motion under an orrery 2024-Jan-08 51 minutes

Caroline Herschel at the Symphony 2024-Jan-01 50 minutes

Things that go Bump in the Universe with Dr. Renée James 2023-Dec-25 51 minutes

Winter Sky in a cozy cabin 2023-Dec-18 51 minutes

Arrival review in a hot tub 2023-Dec-11 68 minutes

Chandra Observatory in a beachside cafe 2023-Dec-04 49 minutes

Astronaut training in a cave 2023-Nov-27 54 minutes

Dr. Moiya's research in a school library 2023-Nov-20 61 minutes

UFO sightings in a cow field 2023-Nov-13 55 minutes

Mars in a cranberry bog 2023-Nov-06 45 minutes

Spooky space stuff in a Salem cemetery 2023-Oct-30 63 minutes

Ask us anything in the Multitude studio 2023-Oct-23 67 minutes

Arthur C. Walker in a rose garden 2023-Oct-16 49 minutes

NASA operations in a coffee shop 2023-Oct-09 52 minutes

Contact on a Pensacola Beach 2023-Oct-02 65 minutes

Very Large Array at J.P. Wynne High 2023-Sep-25 54 minutes

Supernovae in a canyon 2023-Sep-18 56 minutes

Loren Grush's The Six at mission control 2023-Sep-11 46 minutes

Saturn in his temple 2023-Sep-04 55 minutes

Dr. Beth Brown on the football field 2023-Aug-28 46 minutes

Messaging aliens in a newsroom 2023-Aug-21 65 minutes

The Milky Way book on the ISS 2023-Aug-14 50 minutes

Gravitational waves in the Barbie dreamhouse 2023-Aug-07 58 minutes

Galaxy Quest review in a church 2023-Jul-31 60 minutes

Green Bank Telescope in a lighthouse 2023-Jul-24 56 minutes

Northern constellations at the north pole 2023-Jul-17 41 minutes

Southern constellations at the Sydney Opera House 2023-Jul-10 43 minutes

Stellar ages at medieval times 2023-Jul-03 45 minutes

The Possibility of Life with Jaime Green 2023-Jun-26 48 minutes

Summer skygazing at the cookout 2023-Jun-19 44 minutes

Starstruck with Sarafina El-Badry Nance 2023-Jun-12 52 minutes

Valerian & the City of 1000 Planets by a mountain stream 2023-Jun-05 71 minutes

End of the universe on the 6 train 2023-May-29 51 minutes

Dr. Claudia Alexander in a horse-drawn carriage 2023-May-22 49 minutes

Jupiter in the Mall of America 2023-May-15 49 minutes

Spherical Earth on a boat 2023-May-08 54 minutes

Neutron stars at the botanical garden 2023-May-01 51 minutes

Hubble space telescope by a campfire 2023-Apr-24 54 minutes

Prospect review in a lush forest 2023-Apr-17 59 minutes

Carl Sagan in a horse barn 2023-Apr-10 55 minutes

Space water in a seaside cottage 2023-Apr-03 59 minutes

Finding exoplanets at the racetrack 2023-Mar-27 56 minutes

Making Moons in an Italian Restaurant 2023-Mar-20 55 minutes

Space Brains in a Neuro Lab 2023-Mar-13 66 minutes

Redshift at the Batting Cages 2023-Mar-06 45 minutes

Black Holes in Central Park 2023-Feb-27 68 minutes

Moonfall at the ALMA Observatory 2023-Feb-20 75 minutes

Star Types in a Movie Theater 2023-Feb-13 66 minutes

Fundamental Force in a Bathhouse 2023-Feb-06 62 minutes

Katherine Johnson at the Kitchen Table 2023-Jan-30 41 minutes

Universal Speed in an Elephant Sanctuary 2023-Jan-23 56 minutes

Aurora in a Ski Lodge 2023-Jan-16 44 minutes

SETI in a Beauty Salon 2023-Jan-09 60 minutes

Space Junk in a Bookstore 2023-Jan-02 56 minutes

Fluid Motion at a Carnival 2022-Dec-26 50 minutes

Light on a Feather Down Couch 2022-Dec-19 65 minutes

Vera Rubin in a Glass Greenhouse 2022-Dec-12 50 minutes

Eclipses in a Cabin in the Woods 2022-Dec-05 55 minutes

Big Bang in a Rain-Lashed Tent 2022-Nov-28 50 minutes

Galaxy Shapes in an Attic 2022-Nov-21 50 minutes

Pluto in Grandma's Living Room 2022-Nov-21 50 minutes

Hello from Pale Blue Pod 2022-Nov-07 less than a minute