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24 Jan 2015
- 22:59 UTC StarTalk Radio StarTalk Live! Water World (Part 1) Dive into the world of water, on Earth and in the cosmos, when Neil deGrasse Tyson and Eugene Mirman host Robert F. Kennedy Jr., The Gyalwang Drukpa, Dr. Tess Russo ...
- 16:39 UTC The Space Show Dr. Gil Levin, Friday, 1-23-15 Guest: Dr. Gil Levin. Topics: Searching for life on Mars, 1976 Viking Labeled Release Experiments and more. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space ...
- 15:02 UTC Space Talk with Jim... Just Cruisin' w/ Larry Jackson 1/24/15 Just Cruisin' w/ Larry Jackson 1/24/15 Larry talks about what's new with the cruising industry.
- 12:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Shaila's SpaceCast - My Academic Background & Why I Joine... Description: This is a general description of my academic background and why and how I joined Astronomy. Bio: Shaila Akhter is an Astrophysics PhD candidate, outreach co-ordinator and educator from ...
23 Jan 2015
- 21:01 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Greenland''s Ice Layers Mapped in 3D For nearly a century, scientists have been studying the form and flow of the Greenland Ice Sheet. They have measured the change in the elevation of the surface over time ...
- 17:00 UTC NASA's Chandra X-ra... Introduction to OpenFITS We would like to step through our new tutorial on creating a multiwavelength composite image of M101 using GIMP.
- 16:00 UTC NASACast This Week @ NASA, January 23, 2015 State of STEM, NASA Spinoffs, a virtual walk on Mars, and more...
- 12:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... ‪Weekly Space Hangout - January 16, 2015: Hard Landings, ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeFfcA-AgW0 Streamed live on Jan 16, 2015 Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg ) Dave Dickinson (@astroguyz / www.astroguyz.com) Brian Koberlein (@briankoberlein) This Week’s Stories: - ...
- 06:00 UTC StarDate Online Occultations Asteroids are always getting in the way. Every night, several of them pass in front of stars, briefly blocking the stars from view. Astronomers don’t mind, though. In fact, each ...
22 Jan 2015
- 15:21 UTC The Space Show The John Batchelor Show "Hotel Mars," Wednesday, 11-21-15 Guests: John Batchelor, Dr. Ashwin Vasavada, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Mars Curiosity findings announced Dec. 2013. You are invited to comment, ask questions, and discuss the Space Show program/guest(s) on ...
- 12:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Cultural Astronomy - Native Skywatchers Nancy Alima Ali hosts and has Native American astronomical folklore specialist Annette Lee from St. Cloud State University as a guest this month. Ojibwe map available at http://web.stcloudstate.edu/aslee/OJIBWEMAP/home.html D(L)akota map ...
21 Jan 2015
- 18:01 UTC The Space Show Dr. Andrew Rader, Tuesday, 1-20-15 Guest: Andrew Rader. Topics: We discussed his videos, aerospace engineering lectures and much more from his website. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space ...
- 12:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Inspiring Science Education - Chasing Comets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMr6ttzB-7g Pamela Gay hosts. Guests: Nikolas Altibelli and Michel Kuipers of the ESA and Rosa Duran of NUCLIO. Streamed live on Jan 14, 2015 The solar system is littered with ...
- 09:39 UTC Cheap Astronomy 200. Microgravity - 21 January 2015 Well, that took a while.
- 07:15 UTC StarStuff Mysterious cosmic burst detected in real-time Australian astronomers witness cosmic radio bursts for the first time. Also; new claims of a possible Planet X (and Y) at the edge of the solar system, and missing Beagle ...
- 06:00 UTC StarDate Online Moon and Venus One of the most spectacular sights in the night sky is an aurora — a shimmering curtain of light. It’s produced by the interaction between Earth’s magnetic field and the ...
20 Jan 2015
- 19:01 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Missions Take an Unparalleled Look into Superstar ... Explore Eta Carinae from the inside out with the help of supercomputer simulations and data from NASA satellites and ground-based observatories.
- 19:01 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | ''Disk Detectives'' Top 1 Million Classifications ... Volunteers using DiskDetective, a NASA-sponsored citizen science website to find potential planetary nurseries, have made 1 million classifications in less than a year. Goddard astrophysicist Marc Kuchner, the project''s principal ...
- 19:01 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | From the River to the Sea Using data from NASA/USGS satellite Landsat 8, scientists have measured how vegetation in the Colorado River Delta has responded to the pulse of water released in March 2014 as part ...
- 19:01 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Building the Nation''s Newest Weather Satellite Say you need a new weather satellite. Is it as simple as selecting options and clicking to order? Not quite. Building a vital national asset like the GOES-R spacecraft takes ...
- 17:23 UTC The Space Show Dr. Paul Spudis, Monday, 1-19-15 Guest: Dr. Paul Spudis. Topics: Science, ARM, 2016 elections & space policy, return to the Moon and much more. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to ...
- 12:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Bonggakaradeng, A Solar Eclipse Story Avivah Yamani hosts. Today we learn the story that villagers in Sulawesi tell explaining the solar eclipse. A steelmaker peed on a tree that had a pig spirit in it ...
- 06:00 UTC StarDate Online Binary Planets Earth and the Moon are sometimes called a binary planet, because they’re the most evenly matched pairing of a major planet and a moon in the solar system — the ...
- 06:00 UTC The Planetary Socie... A Recipe for a Small Planet Astronomer and planetary scientist Courtney Dressing is the lead author of research that may have found the formula for the mass and composition of Earth-like planets. She reveals the ingredients ...
19 Jan 2015
- 18:30 UTC Star Trek: The Rewa... S02E06 The Schizoid Man An away team discovers the dying Doctor Ira Graves, who claims to be Data’s “grandfather. Another ‘Forbidden Planet’ episode, only this one results in a death, but no without a ...
- 17:03 UTC The Space Show Space New Year's Resolution & Wish List Show, Sunday, 1-1... Guest: Dr. Livingston hosts the first New Year's Resolution Space Show program. Topics: Listeners tell us their wish list for space this year. Please direct all comments and questions regarding ...
- 17:00 UTC The Jodcast January 2015 Extra FUZZY. In the show this time, we talk to Prof. Sir Francis Graham-Smith about the crab pulsar and his long career in astronomy [08:31 - 37:38], Dr. Iain McDonald tell ...
- 15:57 UTC Are We Alone? Big Questions Somewhat Answered Here are questions that give a cosmologist – and maybe even you – insomnia: What happened after the Big Bang? What is dark matter? Will dark energy tear the universe ...
- 12:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Astronomy Cast - Ep. 364: The COROT Mission https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFZ54zDsGnw Streamed live on Jan 12, 2015 Join +Fraser Cain and +Pamela Gay for a live episode of Astronomy Cast. We'll record our 30-minute show, and then stick around to ...
- 06:00 UTC StarDate Online Filling the Void Our universe probably holds a hundred billion galaxies. And each galaxy contains anywhere from a few million stars to a trillion or more. Add it all up and that’s a ...
- 00:00 UTC Astronomy Cast Ep. 363: Where Did Earth's Water Come From? Where on Earth did our water come from. Well, obviously not from Earth, of course, but from space. But did it come from comets, or did the water form naturally ...
18 Jan 2015
- 18:40 UTC StarTalk Radio The Story of Life on Earth with Sir David Attenborough In our first episode of Season 6, Neil deGrasse Tyson discusses the history of life on Earth with naturalist Sir David Attenborough, along with a little help in the studio ...
- 12:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Hangout-a-thon 2013 - Spreading Science: Art and Outreach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToNxKe7sgTE Published on Apr 24, 2014 Ceramics artist (and painter) Amy Davis Roth of SurlyRamics shares her science outreach through art. @SurlyAmy http://surlyramics.com/ https://www.etsy.com/shop/surly https://www.facebook.com/Surlyramics info@surlyramics.com http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is ...
- 11:25 UTC The Star Spot Episode 45: Satellite Communication: The Technological Fo...
- 06:00 UTC StarDate Online Orion’s Head When spring arrives in a couple of months, the Sun will stand near the body of one of the fish of Pisces. Over time, though, the Sun’s location at the ...
17 Jan 2015
- 15:12 UTC Space Talk with Jim... Just Cruisin' w/ Larry Jackson 1/17/15 Just Cruisin' w/ Larry Jackson 1/17/15 Larry talks about what's new with the cruising industry.
- 12:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... UNAWE Space Scoop - Cosmic Computer Gets An Ego Boost http://unawe.org/kids/unawe1451/ Photographs of space are just snapshots of astronomical events. To really understand how things work in the Universe we need a fuller picture. But in laboratories on earth we ...
- 06:00 UTC StarDate Online Trapezium A group of hot young stars blazes in the constellation Orion, which is in the southeast this evening. The stars are in the Orion Nebula, a fuzzy blob of light ...
16 Jan 2015
- 16:00 UTC NASACast This Week @ NASA, January 16, 2015 Dragon arrives at the International Space Station, the station's One Year Crew previewed, and more..
- 15:02 UTC Royal Astronautical... The Rapid Development of the Scorpion Aircraft Dale Tutt, the Scorpion Programme Manager, and Dan Hinson, the Chief Test Pilot, relate the story of the Textron AirLand Scorpion from a clean sheet design to the first flight ...
- 12:18 UTC Recycled Electrons Beagle 2 and a Small Hippo Beagle 2 has been found, intact, on the surface of Mars! Planck is the height of a small giraffe, and Lovejoy is blazing across the Northern sky. Chris and Rob ...
- 12:00 UTC Exposing PseudoAstr... Episode 124 - The Astronomical Distance Ladder Measuring distance in every-day life requires some basic tools like a ruler. But who holds the other end when we want to measure the distance to the next galaxy? In ...
- 12:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Weekly Space Hangout‪ – Jan 9, 2015: Andy Weir of “The Ma... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSuLB3hYbmc Streamed live on Jan 9, 2015 Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Andy Weir , author of “The Martian” This episode of the WSH starts with an extended talk ...
- 08:00 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Found: Mars Orbiter Locates Beagle 2 Lander The Beagle 2 Lander, built by the United Kingdom, has been thought lost on Mars since Dec. 25, 2003, but has now been found in images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance ...
- 06:00 UTC StarDate Online Moon and Companions The Moon has a couple of bright companions at dawn tomorrow. Antares, the brightest star of Scorpius, stands to the right of the Moon. And slightly brighter Saturn, the second-largest ...
- 02:39 UTC The Space Show John Batchelor Hotel Mars, Dr. Jeff Foust, Wednesday, 1-1... Guests: John Batchelor, D. Jeff Foust, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: ISS Ammonia leak, Space X, Falcon 9, barge landing, first stage refurbishment. You are invited to comment, ask questions, and ...
15 Jan 2015
- 12:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Q&A: Why Rigel is not Alpha Orionis Avivah Yamani talks about the greek letter designations that Johann Bayer attached to stars to indicate their prominence. As it turns out, they weren't always keyed to the brightness of ...
- 08:00 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... One Year of NEOWISE Observations Mapped This movie shows the progression of NASA's NEOWISE survey in the year after its Dec. 2013 restart. Each dot represents an asteroid or comet that the mission observed.
- 06:00 UTC StarDate Online Moon and Saturn The largest known reservoir of hydrocarbons isn’t in Texas, the oil sands of Alberta, or even the Persian Gulf. It sits on the surface of Titan, the largest moon of ...
14 Jan 2015
- 18:47 UTC The Space Show Open Liines, Tuesday, 1-13-15 Guest: Open Lines with Dr. David Livingston. Topics: We covered a wide range of space news, industry, & timely topics. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) ...