Sep 27, 2014
Alnilam is its name. In the belt of Orion, the constellation of the great Hunter in the sky, is where you'll find it. Blue supergiant, named after string of pearls, lighting up to a glow the molecular cloud that surrounds it, edging ever and ever closer to bursting into red supergiant or eventual supernova, reminding...
Sep 20, 2014
Wherever you are, whenever you are, welcome. This is the AntipodeanSF Radio Show Miaplacidus, or "placid waters", if you can believe that of a star that has been parallax measured to be around 112 light years distant from our own solar system. AKA Beta Carinae, which just goes to show that everything deserves to...
Sep 13, 2014
Greetings and salutations all. Welcome to Elnath, which is the second-brightest star in Taurus the Bull. It’s the closest bright star to the galactic anticenter – the point in space that lies directly opposite of the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Not to be bullish about this at all, though, since this is the...
Sep 6, 2014
Greetings things, and welcome to the AntipodeanSF Radio Show Bellatrix, that female warrior star living inside Orion the Hunter near Betelgeuse.
Nothing happens in a vacuum, unless you count stars, galaxies, the cosmos — but that's not what I mean.
What I mean is this: AntipodeanSF still exists after sixteen years and...