Featured Podcast Episodes
The Space Show
30 Jan 2015, 16:30 UTC
Guests: John Batchelor, Michael Listner, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: We discussed the settlement in the SpaceX vs. USAF block buy litigation.. You are invited to comment, ask questions, and discuss the Space Show program/guest(s) on the Space Show blog. Comments, questions, and any discussion must be relevant and applicable to Space Show programming. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are not permitted without prior written consent from The Space Show (even if for personal use) & are a violation of the Space Show copyright. We do not permit the commercial use of any Space Show program or part thereof, nor do we permit Space Show programs to be edited, placed on YouTube, or other private channels & websites. Space Show programs can be quoted in news articles, papers, academic & research work but must be cited or referenced in the proper citation format. Contact Dr. Livingston for questions about our copyright and trademark policies which we do enforce. This program is archived on The Space Show website, podcasting, and blog sites with permission from John Batchelor. Please visit the John Batchelor Show website for more information about this fine program, www.johnbatchelorshow.com. Remember, your Amazon Purchases Can Help Support The Space ...
John Batchelor Hotel Mars, Michael ListnerWednesday, 1-28-15
30 Jan 2015, 16:30 UTC
Guests: John Batchelor, Michael Listner, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: We discussed the settlement in the SpaceX vs. USAF block buy litigation.. You are invited to comment, ask questions, and discuss the Space Show program/guest(s) on the Space Show blog. Comments, questions, and any discussion must be relevant and applicable to Space Show programming. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are not permitted without prior written consent from The Space Show (even if for personal use) & are a violation of the Space Show copyright. We do not permit the commercial use of any Space Show program or part thereof, nor do we permit Space Show programs to be edited, placed on YouTube, or other private channels & websites. Space Show programs can be quoted in news articles, papers, academic & research work but must be cited or referenced in the proper citation format. Contact Dr. Livingston for questions about our copyright and trademark policies which we do enforce. This program is archived on The Space Show website, podcasting, and blog sites with permission from John Batchelor. Please visit the John Batchelor Show website for more information about this fine program, www.johnbatchelorshow.com. Remember, your Amazon Purchases Can Help Support The Space ...
365 Days of Astronomy
30 Jan 2015, 12:00 UTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=459izncmk6E Streamed live on Jan 23, 2015 Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg ) Ramin Skibba (@raminskibba) Dave Dickinson (@astroguyz / www.astroguyz.com) This Week’s SpaceX Stories: - SpaceX announces new internet plan, new investors - Liftoff! SpaceX Gets $1 Billion from Google and Fidelity - Elon Musk and SpaceX Plan a Space Internet - SpaceX's Elon Musk moves forward with Hyperloop test track. This Week’s other Stories: - Triple Shadow Transit at Jupiter! - Square Kilometer Array: The Cosmology Engine - New Rosetta Pictures Reveal Crack in the Neck of Comet 67P - Big Asteroid 2014 BL86 Buzzes Earth on January 26: How to See it in Your Telescope - Black hole creates ‘changing look’ quasar - Trans-Neptunian Objects Suggest That There are More Planets in the Solar System - Report: SpaceX Launch of NASA’s DSCOVR Mission Slips to NET Feb. 9 - White Spot on Ceres/ Dawn Delivers New Image of Ceres - NASA and Microsoft Collaboration Will Allow Scientists to Work on Mars We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Friday at 12:00 pm Pacific / 3:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Google+, Universe Today, or the Universe Today YouTube page. ...
Weekly Space Hangout - Jan 23: SpaceX, Rosetta & Asteroid Updates!
30 Jan 2015, 12:00 UTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=459izncmk6E Streamed live on Jan 23, 2015 Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg ) Ramin Skibba (@raminskibba) Dave Dickinson (@astroguyz / www.astroguyz.com) This Week’s SpaceX Stories: - SpaceX announces new internet plan, new investors - Liftoff! SpaceX Gets $1 Billion from Google and Fidelity - Elon Musk and SpaceX Plan a Space Internet - SpaceX's Elon Musk moves forward with Hyperloop test track. This Week’s other Stories: - Triple Shadow Transit at Jupiter! - Square Kilometer Array: The Cosmology Engine - New Rosetta Pictures Reveal Crack in the Neck of Comet 67P - Big Asteroid 2014 BL86 Buzzes Earth on January 26: How to See it in Your Telescope - Black hole creates ‘changing look’ quasar - Trans-Neptunian Objects Suggest That There are More Planets in the Solar System - Report: SpaceX Launch of NASA’s DSCOVR Mission Slips to NET Feb. 9 - White Spot on Ceres/ Dawn Delivers New Image of Ceres - NASA and Microsoft Collaboration Will Allow Scientists to Work on Mars We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Friday at 12:00 pm Pacific / 3:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Google+, Universe Today, or the Universe Today YouTube page. ...
StarDate Online
29 Jan 2015, 06:00 UTC
Several weak meteor showers rain into the night sky at this time of year — showers with names like the Alpha Corona Borealids and the February Eta Draconids. They’re all puny, but they add up. Under dark skies, you can expect to see a handful of meteors just about any night of the year. Astronomers have identified almost 600 possible meteor showers. Only a few produce enough “shooting stars” to make them worth mentioning. But even if they don’t have aesthetic value, they all have scientific value. Every meteor shower is produced by a trail of debris from a comet or asteroid. Plotting the courses of the meteors can help astronomers track down these parent bodies. A couple of years ago, in fact, researchers at Cal Poly Pomona used a network of 60 video cameras to photograph thousands of meteors in January and February skies. Their goal was to see if any of the meteor streams might suggest that their parent bodies were on a collision course with Earth. The observations detected meteors associated with 42 showers, including 16 that had never been seen before. Only one of the showers was tied to a parent object, though, and it’s no ...
Meteor Plots
29 Jan 2015, 06:00 UTC
Several weak meteor showers rain into the night sky at this time of year — showers with names like the Alpha Corona Borealids and the February Eta Draconids. They’re all puny, but they add up. Under dark skies, you can expect to see a handful of meteors just about any night of the year. Astronomers have identified almost 600 possible meteor showers. Only a few produce enough “shooting stars” to make them worth mentioning. But even if they don’t have aesthetic value, they all have scientific value. Every meteor shower is produced by a trail of debris from a comet or asteroid. Plotting the courses of the meteors can help astronomers track down these parent bodies. A couple of years ago, in fact, researchers at Cal Poly Pomona used a network of 60 video cameras to photograph thousands of meteors in January and February skies. Their goal was to see if any of the meteor streams might suggest that their parent bodies were on a collision course with Earth. The observations detected meteors associated with 42 showers, including 16 that had never been seen before. Only one of the showers was tied to a parent object, though, and it’s no ...
Cheap Astronomy
28 Jan 2015, 09:39 UTC
The final frontier is green.
201. SISS Episode 11, Space gardening - 21 January 2015
28 Jan 2015, 09:39 UTC
The final frontier is green.
365 Days of Astronomy
27 Jan 2015, 12:00 UTC
http://unawe.org/kids/unawe1452/ Our producer & editor Richard Drumm hosts. Star-filled galaxies like the Milky Way are not just randomly scattered across the Universe, they are found in groups or clusters. For example, our Galaxy is a member of the so-called "Local Group" along with around 30 other galaxies. http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by NUCLIO. http://nuclio.org/ Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org. The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is a project that is publishing one podcast per day, 5 to 10 minutes in duration, for all 365 days of the year. The podcast episodes are written, recorded and produced by people around the world. We are looking for individuals, schools, companies and clubs to provide 5 - 10 minutes of audio for the daily podcast. You can do as few as 1 episode or up to 12 episodes (one per month, subject to our editorial discretion). Our goal is to encourage people to sign up for a particular day (or days) of the year.
UNAWE: Galaxies Make Disruptive Neighbors
27 Jan 2015, 12:00 UTC
http://unawe.org/kids/unawe1452/ Our producer & editor Richard Drumm hosts. Star-filled galaxies like the Milky Way are not just randomly scattered across the Universe, they are found in groups or clusters. For example, our Galaxy is a member of the so-called "Local Group" along with around 30 other galaxies. http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by NUCLIO. http://nuclio.org/ Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org. The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is a project that is publishing one podcast per day, 5 to 10 minutes in duration, for all 365 days of the year. The podcast episodes are written, recorded and produced by people around the world. We are looking for individuals, schools, companies and clubs to provide 5 - 10 minutes of audio for the daily podcast. You can do as few as 1 episode or up to 12 episodes (one per month, subject to our editorial discretion). Our goal is to encourage people to sign up for a particular day (or days) of the year.
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory Podcasts
26 Jan 2015, 17:00 UTC
To recognize the start of IYL, the Chandra X-ray Center is releasing a collection of images that combine data from telescopes tuned to different wavelengths of light.
A Tour of IYL 2015
26 Jan 2015, 17:00 UTC
To recognize the start of IYL, the Chandra X-ray Center is releasing a collection of images that combine data from telescopes tuned to different wavelengths of light.
Astronomy Cast
26 Jan 2015, 00:00 UTC
Before NASA’s Kepler mission searched for exoplanets using the transit method, there was the European COROT mission, launched in 2006. It was sent to search for planets with short orbital periods and find solar oscillations in stars. It was an incredibly productive mission, and the focus of today’s show.
Ep. 364: The COROT Mission
26 Jan 2015, 00:00 UTC
Before NASA’s Kepler mission searched for exoplanets using the transit method, there was the European COROT mission, launched in 2006. It was sent to search for planets with short orbital periods and find solar oscillations in stars. It was an incredibly productive mission, and the focus of today’s show.
StarDate Online
25 Jan 2015, 06:00 UTC
As befits his status as a hero, Perseus strides boldly across the sky this evening. He’s high overhead at nightfall, crowning the sky with a couple of streamers of moderately bright stars. Perseus rescued the princess Andromeda from a nasty sea monster. In one version of the story, he turned the monster to stone by showing him the head of Medusa, one of the Gorgons — monsters in their own right. The names of four of the constellation’s stars are tied to that story. Collectively, they’re known as Gorgonea — the Gorgons. And the most impressive of the four is quite the monster. Gorgonea Tertia — the third Gorgon — is entering the final stage of its life. It converted the original hydrogen fuel in its core to helium, then converted the helium to carbon and oxygen. The core isn’t hot enough to continue the process, though, so it’s no longer generating nuclear reactions. But it is hot enough to push on the layers of gas around it, making the star puff up to enormous proportions. Right now, Gorgonea Tertia is roughly 150 times wider than the Sun. In the near future — on the stellar timescale — the star ...
Perseus
25 Jan 2015, 06:00 UTC
As befits his status as a hero, Perseus strides boldly across the sky this evening. He’s high overhead at nightfall, crowning the sky with a couple of streamers of moderately bright stars. Perseus rescued the princess Andromeda from a nasty sea monster. In one version of the story, he turned the monster to stone by showing him the head of Medusa, one of the Gorgons — monsters in their own right. The names of four of the constellation’s stars are tied to that story. Collectively, they’re known as Gorgonea — the Gorgons. And the most impressive of the four is quite the monster. Gorgonea Tertia — the third Gorgon — is entering the final stage of its life. It converted the original hydrogen fuel in its core to helium, then converted the helium to carbon and oxygen. The core isn’t hot enough to continue the process, though, so it’s no longer generating nuclear reactions. But it is hot enough to push on the layers of gas around it, making the star puff up to enormous proportions. Right now, Gorgonea Tertia is roughly 150 times wider than the Sun. In the near future — on the stellar timescale — the star ...
