Settle the Stars: The Science of Space Exploration
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Settle the Stars: The Science of Space Exploration
Exploring and terraforming Mars will be the greatest scientific and engineering challenge in the history of our species. From landfall and building the first cities to manipulating an entire planetary environment, this podcast will dive into the science of space exploration, settlement and terraform...
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Andromeda: The Princess
Our host Lacey Hannan is back! And this time she's looking to the northern sky in winter to talk about Andromeda of the Perseus Family.
Research...
Pegasus: The Winged Steed
This week, guest host, Rachel Emerson moves from Cygnus over to Pegasus diving into the heroic stories and comradery this creature had in Greek Mythol...
Introducing: "It Was Said" Season 2
It Was Said, the 2021 Webby Award winner for Best Podcast Series, returns with a new season to look back on some of the most powerful, impactful, and...
Cygnus: The Swan
This week, guest host, Rachel Emerson is back to move our evening gaze into the cooler months with the constellation Cygnus. We will delve into the ch...
Aquila: The Eagle
Aquila the Eagle is full of many possibilities and potential for unknown worlds. Guest host, Rachel Emerson, floats through the history of how this co...
Hercules: The Hero
This week, guest host, Rachel Emerson is back with a very popular figure in Greek Mythology. She talks about the origins of Hercules and the endless p...
Introducing: It Was Said Season 2
It Was Said, the 2021 Webby Award winner for Best Podcast
Series, returns with a new season to look back on some of the most powerful,
imp...
Scorpius: The Piercing Arachnid
This week, guest host, Rachel Emerson will talk about the constellation Scorpius.
She will go into the mythology behind this constellation and...
Re-release: Exoplanets with Alexander Winn
This week, we are re-releasing our episode on Exoplanets to coincide with NASA's discovery of "Planetary Photobombing"...
In the last few...
Ophiucus: The Snake Bearer
The constellation, Ophiucus, is one of the lesser known constellations. However, it's one full of myths, history and new discoveries. Lacey Hannan unc...
Leo: The Lion
The constellation, Leo, is one of the easiest to catch in the night sky. Lacey Hannan covers the origins of the constellation. Follow along as she poi...
Sagittarius: The Centaur Archer
Continuing on in our travels through constellations, today we discuss Sagittarius. Lacey Hannan tells us about it's back story in multiple cultures an...
Orion: The Hunter
In this new series, we’re going to deep-dive into the astronomical facts and age-old mythologies behind some of the most famous constellations, potent...
Season 3: Constellations & Their Greek Myths
We are bringing you season 3 starting Friday, July 8th. Host Lacey Hannan begins our journey into Greek Mythology's ties to constellations. We will be...
”Mars”: Re-Released with Host Alexander Winn
As we gear up for an announcement on our new series, we are re-releasing a classic episode on Mars hosted by Alexander Winn. Lacey Hannan introduces i...
”Moon” Directed by Duncan Jones Starring Sam Rockwell
For our last episode in this season on the depiction of space in science fiction, we will delve into the film "Moon" directed by Duncan Jones starring...
”Mercury”: Re-released with Host Alexander Winn
In a re-release episode, Alexander Winn takes us to Mercury to discuss how... habitable it is.. or (spoiler alert) it isn't.
”Star Trek: The Original Series” Created by Gene Roddenberry
In this episode, Lacey Hannan looks through the wide scope of the original Star Trek Series. Covering how the show shaped and even propelled science a...
”Ad Astra” Directed by James Gray
Inspired by Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and its cinematic counterpart Apocalypse Now, writer and director James Gray set out to film the tale of...
”Apollo 13” Directed by Ron Howard
Apollo 13, was a trip that turned out to be anything but routine, and the mission, which became known as “the successful failure,” would prove one of...
”2001: A Space Odyssey” Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Written by Arthur C. Clarke
Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke embarked on the project of a lifetime: a realistic cinematic speculation of where space exploration could be at...
”Contact” Directed by Robert Zemeckis, Based on the Novel by Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan’s research and the scientific and philosophical questions that propelled his career came together in the only work of fiction he would prod...
”Interstellar” Directed by Christopher Nolan
It was not until 2014 that audiences were first shown a realistic visualization of a
black hole in a major motion picture. Those visuals came co...
”The Martian” Directed by Ridley Scott Based on the Novel by Andy Weir
In our new season, we are kicking off our first episode with "The Martian" a novel written by Andy Weir, and turned into a blockbuster film by directo...
Season 2 Trailer
Alexander Winn introduces our newest host, Lacey Hannan. This season on Settle the Stars, we will be covering the scientific accuracy behind books lik...
Earth
Compared to many of the worlds we’ve visited, there is no doubt about it – Earth is very much alive. Alexander Winn takes us on our last stop for Seas...
Earth‘s Moon
Today’s journey is a refreshingly short one: a mere 238,855 miles from Earth. In terms of cosmic distance, that’s right on our doorstep, or closer ev...
The Sun
The importance of our Sun is hard to overstate, not just as an essential foundation for life here on Earth, but as an agent for order and stability in...
Exoplanets - A Whole New World
In the last few decades, we have learned that most of these stars are hosts to their own systems of planets, just as the Sun is to our Solar System. ...
Settle The Stars Presents: The ”You Have My Sword” Podcast with Krysti Pryde
This week Alexander Winn presents Edgeworks Nebula's newest show "You Have My Sword" where host Krysti Pryde talks all thing Tolkien from The Hobbit t...
The Asteroid Belt, Kuiper Belt, & Oort Cloud: God‘s Snowballs
For almost as long as astronomers have been fascinated by the bright, shining points of light in the sky, they’ve also wondered about the space betwee...
Pluto & the Dwarf Planets - Rocks of Unusual Size
Alexander adventures on to the large bodies circling our Sun at the farthest reaches of our Solar System that could almost be – or in Pluto’s case, on...
Moons of Uranus & Neptune
Alexander Winn will be getting a closer look at some of the most often-overlooked features of Uranus & Neptune: their moons and rings. While the plan...
Uranus & Neptune
We are continuing our journey farther out into the solar system as we visit the last two planets on our visitation list: Uranus and Neptune. Today we’...
Moons of Saturn
Today we’ll devote a full episode to revealing some of the unique characteristics and scientist-stumping quirks of Saturn's Moons. Buckle up, Alexande...
Saturn - Put a Ring on It
In this episode, Alexander Winn steers us toward Saturn. This gas giant may not hold as many records as its giant neighbor Jupiter, but the dazzling r...
Moons of Jupiter
Alexander Winn catapults us to the Moons of Jupiter. There, we will find hints of rich resources and potentially life-supporting regions that bode wel...
Jupiter - King of the Planets
Alexander Winn rockets us to Jupiter where we attempt to wrap our brains around a behemoth of a planet. With the aid of thousands of years of human ob...
Mars - Our Future Home
Alexander Winn takes us on a full tour of Mars and the race to set foot on it. Our trip to Mars will take us face-to-face with some of the most massiv...
Venus - The Nightmare Next Door
Alexander Winn takes us on a trip to Venus to "unearth" the power that the planet has had on humans for thousands of years. We touch on the history ti...