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Astronomy Cast

Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela Gay

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Take a fact-based journey through the cosmos. Tune in to hear weekly discussions on astronomical topics ranging from planets to cosmology. Hosted by Fraser Cain (Universe Today) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay (Planetary Science Institute), this show brings the questions of an avid astronomy lover direct to an astronomer. Together Fraser and Pamela explore what is known and being discovered about the universe around us. Astronomy Cast is supported thru patreon.com/AstronomyCast.
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Astronomy Cast Ep. 776: The Matter - Antimatter Dichotomy By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Dec 22, 2025. Shortly after the big bang there were almost exactly the same amounts of matter and antimatter in the Universe, but there was just enough of a difference that we live in a matter-dominated Universe. But it didn't have to be that …
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Astronomy Cast Ep. 775: The Hydrogen 21-cm Line By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Dec 15, 2025. Atomic hydrogen is the raw material for stars, but there's a problem. It's cold & dark, but it can do a very rare trick, releasing a photon in a very specific wavelength, known as the 21 centimeter line. And thanks to this wavelength astro…
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CITR 101.9FM (Vancouver)'s 24 HOURS OF RADIO ART in a snack size format! Difficult music, harsh electronics, spoken word, cut-up/collage and general CRESPAN© weirdness. Tonight’s broadcast features: RUTGER ZUYDERVELT, ARGYRE PLANITIA, NIHIL IMPVLSE, NEW RISEN THRONE, SHAWN RUDIMAN, and JO MONTGOMERIE.…
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CITR 101.9FM (Vancouver)'s 24 HOURS OF RADIO ART in a snack size format! Difficult music, harsh electronics, spoken word, cut-up/collage and general CRESPAN© weirdness. This afternoon's broadcast features: NACHT, DIEGO BERMUDEZ CHAMBERLAND, PAOLO TORTORA, BEYOND SENSORY EXPERIENCE, and NOISE FOR NO ONE.…
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CITR 101.9FM (Vancouver)'s 24 HOURS OF RADIO ART in a snack size format! Difficult music, harsh electronics, spoken word, cut-up/collage and general CRESPAN© weirdness. This evening’s broadcast features new ENSEMBLE IN(DE)FINI, FNTC, DORIS DANA,MASAYA KATO, and TROND KALLEVAG.By CiTR & Discorder Magazine
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CITR 101.9FM (Vancouver)'s 24 HOURS OF RADIO ART in a snack size format! Difficult music, harsh electronics, spoken word, cut-up/collage and general CRESPAN© weirdness. Tonight’s broadcast features CLOCK DVA, RUNES ORDER, DAVE CLARKSON, CHRIS WOOD | ALBERT SAPSFORD, and KRISTOF BATHORY | BLAKMOTH.By CiTR & Discorder Magazine
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CITR 101.9FM (Vancouver)'s 24 HOURS OF RADIO ART in a snack size format! Difficult music, harsh electronics, spoken word, cut-up/collage and general CRESPAN© weirdness. Tonight’s broadcast featuresTOMAS ŠENKYRIK, VOJENSKA NEMOCNICE, GUIGUISUISUI w/ ANZHI, METAL PREYERS, DURAN VAZQUEZ | KLOOB.By CiTR & Discorder Magazine
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Astronomy Cast Ep. 774: How Does Bad Science Happen? By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Nov 8, 2025. Scientific expertise is under attack on all fronts with concerns coming from politicians and the public. While most of this is unwarranted and politically motivated, there can be germ of truth. Bad science does happen, but how? How is …
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CITR 101.9FM (Vancouver)'s 24 HOURS OF RADIO ART in a snack size format! Difficult music, harsh electronics, spoken word, cut-up/collage and general CRESPAN© weirdness. Tonight’s broadcast features new GERALDINE EGUILUZ | MICHEL F COTE, PHILIP BLACKBURN, SHAWN RUDIMAN, and THE HATHAWAY FAMILY PLOT.By CiTR & Discorder Magazine
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Astronomy Cast Ep. 773: What Would You Do With $1 Billion For Astronomy? By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Nov 9, 2025. We are powerless fans of space exploration. But what if some fool gave us the authority and funding to make our space dreams a reality? Someone asked us what we'd do with a billion dollars. What missions? Which tele…
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CITR’s 24 Hours of Radio Art in a snack-sized format. Dark Ambient. Drone. Field Recordings. Noise. Sound Art. Or something. This evening’s broadcast features new ANDREW TASSELMYER, MARK HARWOOD, ALISTER SPENCE, STEPHEN VITIELLO | EDWIN TORRES, and DORIS DANA.By CiTR & Discorder Magazine
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CITR’s 24 Hours of Radio Art in a snack-sized format. Dark Ambient. Drone. Field Recordings. Noise. Sound Art. Or something. Tonight’s broadcast features new ADRIANO ZANNI, UMBRAFONO, HAAi, EMITER, RICK SANDERS, and THE MUSIC LIBERATION FRONT SWEDEN.By CiTR & Discorder Magazine
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CITR’s 24 Hours of Radio Art in a snack-sized format. Dark Ambient. Drone. Field Recordings. Noise. Sound Art. Or something. This afternoon’s broadcast features new MERZBOW | IGGOR CAVALERA | ERALDO BERNOCCHI, F A I D R O S, OLLIE OLSEN | ANDREW DUFFIELD | BILL McDONALD.By CiTR & Discorder Magazine
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Astronomy Cast Ep. 772: 2025 Gift Guide By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Nov 9, 2025. It's time once again for our annual gift-giving guide. We've got recommendations for books, movies, TV shows, games, and of course astronomy gear to satisfy the space nerds in your family. The Christmas season is almost upon us, and with it comes e…
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Astronomy Cast Ep. 771: Comet Tails By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Nov 8, 2025. With the arrival of the comet 3I/Atlas (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System), the world is getting a crash course in comets, their behavior, and of course their tails. Today we're going to talk about comets and their tails, why they exist, ho…
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Astronomy Cast Ep. 770: The Ethics of Mars Exploration By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Nov 3, 2025. Hosted by: Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela L. Gay. It is arguable that humanity now has the technological ability to live on Mars. It would be done at enormous expense and sacrifice, and there are some tricky problems that we haven't solv…
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CITR’s 24 Hours of Radio Art in a snack-sized format. Dark Ambient. Drone. Field Recordings. Noise. Sound Art. Or something. Tonight’s broadcast features THE TEAR GARDEN, v/a CRYO CHAMBER 'TOMB OF ICONOCLASTS', and v/a CODEX OF PLEASURE AND PAIN - A SONIC TRIBUTE TO CLIVE BARKER'S HELLRAISER.By CiTR & Discorder Magazine
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CITR’s 24 Hours of Radio Art in a snack-sized format. Dark Ambient. Drone. Field Recordings. Noise. Sound Art. Or something. This Friday night’s broadcast features Vincent Price‘s 1969 LP ‘Witchcraft~Magic – An Adventure in Demonology‘ in its entirety, plus primarily dark, yet allergy-friendly Hallowe’en snacks courtesy of Cryo Chamber Records (‘To…
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Astronomy Cast Ep. 769: Little Red Dots By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Oct 20, 2025. New instruments bring new mysteries, and when James Webb came on line it uncovered a collection of strange, compact, bright objects shifted deeply into the red end of the spectrum. These were dubbed "Little red dots" or LRDs. And the astronomical …
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Astronomy Cast Ep. 768: Comets' Unpredictability By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Oct 13, 2025. So it's been decades since we've seen a bright comet in the sky. And actually there was a pair — Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake. And then, silence! And unmet promises by the Universe to give us a bright comet. Comets are unpredictable, and they …
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CITR’s 24 Hours of Radio Art in a snack-sized format. Dark Ambient. Drone. Field Recordings. Noise. Sound Art. Or something. This afternoon’s broadcast features new Totaleee, GitM, Trond | Eiko, Cheryl E. Leonard, Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, Bridget Ferrill, Bill Brennan | Andy McNeill, Fani Konstantinidou, plus the CITR Global Network premiere of the…
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Astronomy Cast Ep. 767: Black Holes in Extreme Circumstances By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Hosted by: Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela L. Gay Streamed live on Oct 6, 2025. You can only describe a black hole by its mass and its spin. And maybe it's charge. But allow us to propose a new criteria: the personal experience. Some black holes have seen things…
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CITR’s 24 Hours of Radio Art in a snack-sized format. Dark Ambient. Drone. Field Recordings. Noise. Sound Art. Or something. Tonight’s broadcast features new closing., Dubree, Ajna, Sergio Merce, and Jana Irmert, plus the latest from Fletina (“How To Peel A Steel Apple“), Toronto’s Poly-Tones, and Vancouver’s Kuma (“A Waste Of All Your Light“).…
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CITR’s 24 Hours of Radio Art in a snack-sized format. Dark Ambient. Drone. Field Recordings. Noise. Sound Art. Or something. This afternoon’s broadcast features Les Biologistes Marins, Stefan Goldmann | Ensemble 180°, Freight Cell, Ard Bit, and Roméo Poirier, plus new collections from Adventurous Music (‘One World‘) and Gruenrekorder (‘Sounds of th…
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Astronomy Cast Ep. 766: How Spacecraft End By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay End-of-Life Planning for Your Spacecraft! Streamed live October 1, 2025. Your spacecraft has reached the end of its mission. You've done everything you can to keep it operational, but now it's time to say goodbye. How do space agencies deal with spacecraft to shut them down …
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CITR’s 24 Hours of Radio Art in a snack-sized format. Dark Ambient. Drone. Field Recordings. Noise. Sound Art. Or something. This afternoon’s broadcast features new Ajna, Lambwool, Broodark, Robert Piotrowicz, Kevin Drumm, [MONRHEA] + AGF, closing., and Maps, plus the CITR Global Network premiere of Rhys Fulber‘s ‘Memory Impulse Anatomy‘.…
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CITR’s 24 Hours of Radio Art in a snack-sized format. Dark Ambient. Drone. Field Recordings. Noise. Sound Art. Or something. Tonight’s broadcast features new Nick May | Alex Siu Lun Li, Scanner, Jana Irmert, Martina Testen | Simon Šerc, Ethnea Nekrōn, Massimo Toniutti, Širom, Illusion of Safety, Mount XLR, Aho Ssan, and Sergio Merce.…
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Astronomy Cast Ep. 765: Rockets vs The Environment By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Sep 22, 2025. We don't launch a lot of rockets every year, so their impact on the environment is minimal compared to other forms of transportation. But that number is steadily increasing with rates that we'll have to take seriously. What's the curren…
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CITR’s 24 Hours of Radio Art in a snack sized format. Dark Ambient. Drone. Field Recordings. Noise. Sound Art. Or something. This evening's broadcast features FELICITY MANGAN, closing., MELAINE DALIBERT | DAVID SYLVIAN, DUCHAMP, and TONI DIMITROV | DIONISAF.By CiTR & Discorder Magazine
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CITR’s 24 Hours of Radio Art in a snack-sized format. Dark Ambient. Drone. Field Recordings. Noise. Sound Art. Or something. Tonight’s broadcast features new Slow Blink, Toni Dimitrov, Annette Vande Gorne, Tear Garden, Michael Valentine West, Ø (Mika Vainio), and Halifax, NS’ Brandon Auger.By CiTR & Discorder Magazine
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CITR’s 24 Hours of Radio Art in a snack-sized format. Dark Ambient. Drone. Field Recordings. Noise. Sound Art. Or something. This Friday afternoon’s broadcast features new Damian Anache, DarkSonicTales, Jung An Tagen, Arvin Dola, What We Do When In Silence, Katerina Gimon | Dory Hayley, Oubys, Snezhana Reizen, remixed Attrition, plus the CITR Globa…
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Astronomy Cast Ep. 764: Cleared For Launch! By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live September 17, 2025. This week, we look at the process behind rockets getting licensed to launch, and everyone around the pad getting notified to stay away as T-0 approaches. (Can you say "errant boat"?) We have a saying around here: "One does not simply book a…
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Astronomy Cast Ep. 763: Interstellar Comets By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live Sep 8, 2025. Welcome to the first episode of our 19th season! This week we look at objects coming from other solar systems that come passing on by our Sun. During the summer hiatus the 3rd interstellar object was discovered: Comet 3I/ATLAS! So now we have 3 di…
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CITR’s 24 Hours of Radio Art in a snack-sized format. Dark Ambient. Drone. Field Recordings. Noise. Sound Art. Or something. This evening’s broadcast features more Eva-Maria Houben, new Nomad, Florian Stéphant, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, plus Mahorka Records’ ‘Making Things Happen: Netlabel Day 10th Anniversary‘ compilation (featuring Hans Castru…
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CITR’s 24 Hours of Radio Art in a snack-sized format. Dark Ambient. Drone. Field Recordings. Noise. Sound Art. Or something. This morning’s broadcast features more Yann Novak and Underwater Sleep Orchestra, plus Melaine Dalibert | David Sylvian’s “Arabesque 1“, new UTON, Mads Emil Nielsen, Simonel, Benny Nilsen, Angela Winter, and relay for death.…
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CITR’s 24 Hours of Radio Art in a snack-sized format. Dark Ambient. Drone. Field Recordings. Noise. Sound Art. Or something. Tonight’s broadcast features new Yann Novak, Jeannine Wagar, Thomas Ciufo, The Deep Bells, Underwater Sleep Orchestra, Andy Graydon | Klaus Janek, Simon Fisher Turner, Yorkshire Modular Society | Peter Digby, Her Menacing Pet…
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CITR’s 24 Hours of Radio Art in a snack-sized format. Dark Ambient. Drone. Field Recordings. Noise. Sound Art. Or something. This afternoon’s broadcast features new Bill Leeb, Annette Vande Gorne, Relay For Death, The Cords, Swansea Sound, Benny Nilsen, Xqui, and the CITR Global Network premiere of Carolyn Fok’s ‘Chrysalis‘, and Hand To Earth’s ‘Ŋu…
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CITR’s 24 Hours of Radio Art in a snack-sized format. Dark Ambient. Drone. Field Recordings. Noise. Sound Art. Or something. Tonight’s broadcast features new Florian Stéphant, dj sniff, Rupert Lally, Angela Winter, Paul Padilla, Terence Fixmer, Brunhild Ferrari, Eighth Tower Records’ ‘Bio-Mechanik. Aural Tribute To The Art of H.R. Giger‘, Manja Ri…
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CITR’s 24 Hours of Radio Art in a snack-sized format. Dark Ambient. Drone. Field Recordings. Noise. Sound Art. Or something. Friday afternoon’s broadcast features new Aki Onda, Mijatka, Maps, Felsmann + Tiley, errorserror, Sonologyst, Madeleine Cocolas, and the CITR Global Network premiere of Illustrious’ “Mesmerine 111“.…
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CITR’s 24 Hours of Radio Art in a snack-sized format. Dark Ambient. Drone. Field Recordings. Noise. Sound Art. Or Something. Experimental music by Canadians for experimental music-loving Canadians! We’re featuring Canadian artists exclusively on this Friday afternoon’s broadcast. Join us for new music by Kuma, Andrew Staniland, Morrigan | Overzealo…
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