In this first installment of the BSPhysClass podcast, I cover the recent SOFIA flight above Europe, news of the first Interstellar comet detected, reasons why our black hole is 75x brighter than usual, and a bonus story about Sandia National Labs improving IR detectors.

SOFIA Confirms Water in Sunny Craters on the Moon

This is a casual educational astronomy podcast that covers recent astronomy news and events, hosted by a grad student currently working towards an M.S. in Physics in California. After completing a B.S. in Physics with a minor in astronomy, I took a gap year where I spent six months as an public educational/outreach intern communicating multi-messenger astronomy and time-domain astronomy for one of the best optical/infrared observatories in the world while getting to live in Hawai'i! I enjoy communicating astronomy and physics topics to the public, and I hope I'm able to teach you something!