Our Universe - Delta College Public Radio

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Do you have questions about space, time and the nature of the universe? Join Aurelian Balan, Delta College associate professor of physics, as he uses astronomy and physics to help answer your questions while diving into some amazing topics.

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Episodes

How a Nuclear Reactor Works

Artemis II to the Moon

Cell Phone Radiation

Saturn’s Rings and Gas Giants

Radiocarbon Dating

Fundamental Particles

The Exoplanet K2-18b

The Local Group

Asteroid 2024 YR4

Traveling to Mars and Beyond

The Orion Nebula

How Fast is Earth Moving?

The Hubble Tension

Light Pollution: How Many Stars in the Night Sky?

Quantum Computing

How Magnetism Works

The Physics of Polarizing Sunglasses

Your Best Chance to See a Nova

NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications Experiment

The Radio Spectrum

The Acceleration Due to Gravity

The Most Promising Dark Matter Experiment

The Elusive Oxygen-28

Nuclear Fission Reactors

Exoplanets

Jupiter’s Moon, Io

The Carrington Event

The Basics About Our Moon

If Earth Had Two Suns

The Doppler Effect

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)

The Strong Force

Starlink and Space Junk

The Power of Lasers

How Long Do Stars Live?

Our Place in the Universe

How Practical is Solar Energy?

Extreme Temperatures of the Solar System

All About Telescopes

Measuring the Vast Distance to a Star

A Planet Far, Far Away

The James Webb Space Telescope

Why Polaris is Special

The Speed Limit of the Universe