Episode Title
The Hottest Year in a Row!
Series Title
Walkabout the Galaxy
Keywords
Venus, greenhouse warming
Disciplines
Astrophysics and Astronomy | Physics
Description
Venus continues its record-setting warm streak now at over 1 billion years and counting, while the Earth just set its own modest record for the hottest year in the last 150 for the third record-setting year in a row. We've got a lot of work to do if we want to catch up with Venus. Speaking of Venus, something weird happened in its atmosphere that's probably the result of a gravity wave, not to be confused with gravitational waves which are a different beast altogether. Let the astroquarks take you on a journey from Venus to distant galaxies, and from greenhouse warming to non-Newtonian dynamics in this episode of Walkabout the Galaxy.
Episode Sponsor
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© Joshua Colwell, All Rights Reserved
Date Created
1-23-2017
Item Type
Podcast
Type
article
Length of Episode
34:00
Recommended Citation
Colwell, Joshua; Dove, Adrienne; and Cooney, James, "The Hottest Year in a Row!" (2017). Walkabout the Galaxy Podcast. 3.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/walkaboutthegalaxy/3
