What are Fast Radio Bursts? With Kaitlyn Shin, CHIME member - Astronomy News with The Cosmic Companion 7 September 2021

<p>This week on Astronomy News with The Cosmic Companion, we welcome CHIME member Kaitlyn Shin to the show, and she's going to &nbsp;teach us about fast radio bursts coming from space.</p> <p>But first, we look at a new study showing that stars eating planets may be more common than we thought, a new type of supernova is seen by astronomers as a black hole or neutron star collides with its parent star, and China takes the first steps toward building a space station a kilometer long.<br> <br> Listen to the podcast here, or watch this episode as a video at: <a href="https://youtu.be/cvs0vvAgDbA" target="_blank"><strong>https://youtu.be/cvs0vvAgDbA</strong></a></p> --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-cosmic-companion/message Support this podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/the-cosmic-companion/support" rel="payment">https://anchor.fm/the-cosmic-companion/support</a>