EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News
Hosted by Pamela · Dr. Pamela Gay, Erik Madaus, Ally Pelphrey
4.5from 109 ratings
- 337
- Episodes
- 33
- Transcribed
- 109
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
About EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News
Get your weekly dose of all that's new in space and astronomy with Escape Velocity Space News. The sky is not the limit, as we bring you the latest scientific discoveries and rocket launches. EVSN is brought to you by the team behind CosmoQuest at the Planetary Science Institute and features hosts Dr. Pamela L. Gay and Erik Madaus, with audio engineering by Ally Pelphrey. EVSN is supported through Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/CosmoQuestX.
- Publisher
- Dr. Pamela Gay, Erik Madaus, Ally Pelphrey
- Category
- science · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Apr 2021
- Latest episode
- 24 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
33 of 337 episodes have a transcript.
24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Cloudy with a Chance of Brown Dwarfs: Terrestrial, Exo & Space Weather
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
No Good, Very Bad News and Some Planetary Palate Cleansers
1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
On Background: The Anatomy of a Comet
Inside a recent episode
Cloudy with a Chance of Brown Dwarfs: Terrestrial, Exo & Space Weather
Published 24 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It has been categorized as SIMP 0136, S-I-M-P 0136. In this particular question, I use the word world loosely. It's a brown dwarf. This means it is an object large enough that early in its existence, it was able to have nuclear fusion of tritium, possibly deuterium in its body. core, but it ran out of fuel very quickly. It wasn't able to ignite hydrogen. And so now it's just hanging out, cooling off. It is many times Jupiter's size, but in many ways it's just a gas giant at this point in its existence. observations made with the James Webb Space Telescope have looked at how it has emitted light in different wavelengths on different sides as it rotates. […]
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