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Podcast Profile: StarXiv: a podcast discussing the latest astronomy papers

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38 episodes
2024 to 2026
Median: 34 minutes
Collection: Physics, Math, and Astronomy

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This podcast is a biweekly discussion of recent astronomy and astrophysics research papers posted to arXiv, hosted by University of Surrey astronomers who summarize new results and place them in broader scientific context. Across the episodes, the conversation ranges from near-Earth and Solar System science—such as crater records on the Moon and Pluto, Mercury’s magnetosphere, asteroids, interstellar objects, and solar flares—to exoplanets and planetary systems, including planet formation in disks, the chemistry of stars and disks, misaligned or close-in planets, and questions about habitability and possible biosignatures or technosignatures.

A major through-line is galaxy formation and evolution across cosmic time. Topics frequently include dwarf galaxies and ultra-faint systems, ultra-diffuse galaxies, the growth of disk galaxies, the structure of the cosmic web, gas accretion, star formation (including bursty behavior at high redshift), and the origin and evolution of star clusters such as globular clusters. The Milky Way is a recurring focus through “galactic archaeology”: merger histories (e.g., accretion events and stellar halo substructure), chemical abundances, stellar populations, and how these records inform the Galaxy’s assembly.

High-energy and compact-object astrophysics also appears often, with discussions of black holes across mass scales (primordial candidates, intermediate-mass searches, and supermassive seed formation), gravitational waves, fast radio bursts, pulsars, supernovae, and tidal disruption events. The show also highlights methodology—gravitational lensing, microlensing, large surveys (e.g., JWST, HST, Gaia, Euclid, DESI, ALMA), simulations, and machine learning approaches used to detect objects and infer astrophysical histories.

Episodes:

Episode 38 - merging galaxies, exploding stars and the beauty of individual galaxies 2026-Jun-08 35 minutes

Episode 37 - Lunar craters, primordial black holes & growing galaxies 2026-May-25 32 minutes

Episode 36 - Dead Earths, magnetic fields and Galactic amnesia 2026-May-11 33 minutes

Episode 35 - More Milky Way mayhem, Fast Radio Bursts, and very cold disks 2026-Apr-28 34 minutes

Episode 34 - The cosmic web, the ancient Milky Way, and planets around small stars 2026-Apr-13 28 minutes

Episode 33 - Bananas, blueberries, planet eating stars and the fate of the Milky Way 2026-Mar-30 32 minutes

Episode 32 - Ancient star clusters and growing black holes 2026-Mar-16 31 minutes

Episode 31 - Near Earth Objects, Little Red Dots, bursty star formation and life around massive stars 2026-Mar-02 32 minutes

Episode 30 - Direct collapse black holes, nuclear stellar discs, and machine learning merger histories 2026-Feb-16 27 minutes

Episode 29 - Exploding stars, carbon stars, and starbursting pseudo little red dots 2026-Jan-26 32 minutes

Episode 28 - Fading stars, digesting planets and dark matter conundrums 2026-Jan-12 33 minutes

Episode 27: Making a Milky Way, searching for dwarfs, and elusive black holes 2025-Dec-22 32 minutes

Episode 26: A tail of tales, little galaxies, and starspots 2025-Dec-08 31 minutes

Episode 25: Extragalactic exoplanets, simulating individual stars, and galaxy mergers as cosmic ray factories 2025-Nov-24 42 minutes

Episode 24 - Strong lenses, Solar Flares and young, high alpha stars 2025-Nov-12 36 minutes

Episode 23 - Failed galaxies, faint galaxies, and the proto-Galaxy 2025-Oct-27 41 minutes

Episode 22 - ORCs, rings, and Galactic histories 2025-Oct-13 37 minutes

Episode 21 - Mercury, chemistry and quasi periodic eruptions 2025-Sep-29 37 minutes

Episode 20 - Dark galaxies, black holes, star formation and life in the faintest galaxies? 2025-Sep-15 33 minutes

Episode 19 - Peering into the Local Universe, distant black holes, forming planets and alien signatures 2025-Sep-01 36 minutes

Episode 18 - disks, disks and more disks! 2025-Aug-18 38 minutes

Episode 17 - detecting dark matter, unusual black holes and speedy stars 2025-Aug-04 38 minutes

Episode 16 - interstellar visitors, molten planets and faint, dark galaxies 2025-Jul-21 35 minutes

Episode 15 – Flare-inducing planets, avoiding catastrophe, and accreted star clusters 2025-Jul-07 39 minutes

Episode 14 - A cosmic owl, misaligned planetary systems, and the Milky Way as an outlier 2025-Jun-23 39 minutes

Episode 13 - Missing Europium, Pluto's craters, 43,000 Goblins and some Pop III stars 2025-Jun-09 34 minutes

Episode 12 - Signs of life, little red dots and the links between star clusters and high redshift galaxies 2025-May-25 39 minutes

Episode 11 - Whirling planes, wandering black holes and alien supernovae 2025-May-12 39 minutes

Episode 10 - Mixing dark matter, surviving black holes and hunting for planets 2025-Apr-28 36 minutes

Episode 9 – Slowing bars, growing black holes, pasta sauces and AI 2025-Apr-14 34 minutes

Episode 8 – Cosmology, pulsars and dark matter in disk galaxies 2025-Mar-31 37 minutes

Episode 7 - Black holes, stealthy satellites and the distance to DF2 2025-Mar-10 30 minutes

Episode 6 - Einstein rings, black holes, and ringed galaxies 2025-Feb-24 32 minutes

Episode 5 - Galaxies, gas accretion, and aliens 2025-Feb-10 32 minutes

Episode 4 - January 2025-Jan-28 28 minutes

Episode 3 - December 2024-Dec-20 46 minutes

Episode 2 - October 2024-Nov-18 35 minutes

Episode 1 - September 2024-Nov-01 27 minutes