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21 Apr 2014
- 11:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Astronomy Cast Ep. 342 - Sunsetting Spacecraft Streamed live on Apr 7, 2014 Everything dies, including our technology. But when we've hurtled a few thousands pounds of robotic instrumentation to another planet, it gets a little difficult ...
20 Apr 2014
- 11:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... GAM 2014 - Australian Aboriginal Art Published on Apr 8, 2014 This live hangout will explore Australian Aboriginal astronomy, art, and music. Host: Mike Simmons, founder of AWB, Astronomers Without Borders. Guests: - Dr. Duane Hamacher ...
19 Apr 2014
- 17:18 UTC The Space Show David Meerman Scott & Richard Jurek, Friday, 4-18-14 Guests: David Steerman Scott, Richard Jurek. Topic: Mr. Scott & Mr. Jurek's top new book, "Marketing the Moon: The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program." Please direct all comments and ...
- 11:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Space Scoop - Cosmic Demolition in the Asteroid Belt How many objects are there in our Solar System? There is one star (the Sun), eight planets (including Earth) and hundreds of moons. But many people forget about the most ...
- 05:00 UTC StarDate Online Bear’s Lodge If Gallup took a poll to find the best-known star pattern in the night sky, the odds are the winner would be the Big Dipper. Perhaps surprisingly, though, the dipper ...
18 Apr 2014
- 16:00 UTC NASACast Space to Ground - 4/18/2014 Spacewalk preparations, SpaceX-3 cargo launch and Earth Day photos from space! Question or comment? Use #spacetoground to talk to us.
- 16:00 UTC NASACast Audio This Week @ NASA, April 18, 2014 A Dragon takes flight, Pad 39A Milestone, Kepler finds Earth-size planet, and more...
- 15:05 UTC Recycled Electrons Greasing The Wheels Chris and Rob Grant talk about plate tectonics, museums and superfluids. [MP3 Link] Episode #102. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like ...
- 11:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... ‪Weekly Space Hangout - April 11, 2014: Exomoons, Eclipse... Streamed live on Apr 11, 2014 Host: Fraser Cain Astrojournalist: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter) This week's stories: - Cosmos episode 5 - Possible exomoon discovered - Parachute rock - ...
- 05:00 UTC StarDate Online Changing Skies Most of the world’s major observatories stand on remote mountaintops, far from the pesky glow of city lights. So as twilight fades away this evening, their skies will be speckled ...
- 04:26 UTC Talking Space Podca... Episode 609: Mars Madness On this episode of Talking Space, we talk with the Executive Director and co-founder of Explore Mars, Chris Carberry. In the interview, we discuss what Explore Mars is all about, ...
17 Apr 2014
- 14:15 UTC The Space Show The John Batchelor Show "Hotel Mars," Wednesday, 4-16-14 Guests: John Batchelor, Dr. Haym Benaroya, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: NASA LADEE Mission. You are invited to comment, ask questions, and discuss the Space Show program/guest(s) on the Space Show ...
- 14:00 UTC StarDate Online Galaxies Galore Thousands of galaxies of all sizes, shapes, and distances congregate in this newly released Hubble Space Telescope image. Some of the small, red galaxies are perhaps 10 billion light-years away ...
- 11:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Cheap Astro - Asteroid Deflection 101 Our host, Steve Nerlich, interviews Greg Wah of Smart Enough to Know Better podcast. They talk about ways to deflect an incoming asteroid, one of which is zapping it with ...
- 05:00 UTC StarDate Online Moon and the Scorpion The heart of the scorpion is doomed. Sometime within the next million years or so, the star Antares is likely to blow itself apart as a supernova. Only its tiny, ...
16 Apr 2014
- 19:03 UTC The Space Show John Powell, Tuesday, 4-15-14 Guest: John Powell. Topics: Updates on JP Aerospace and the Airship To Orbit program. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. ...
- 17:00 UTC NASA's Chandra X-ra... G352.7-0.1: Sweeping Supernovas This space photograph shows a 2200-year-old supernova remnant that is sweeping up a remarkable amount of material - enough to make 45 Suns!
- 11:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Astro Folklore - Kites To Reach The Sun Narrated by Avivah Yamani: There were two groups of people who lived on Muna Island, Southeast of Celebes. The first was the people who lived in caves and the second ...
- 05:00 UTC StarDate Online Moon and Saturn The Moon and the planet Saturn stage quite a performance tonight. They rise in late evening, with bright golden Saturn quite close to the upper left of the Moon. They ...
- 01:46 UTC StarStuff Water on early Mars disappears into thin air Ancient Mars' atmosphere was too thin to keep liquid water on the red planet's surface, new research suggests. Also; new star birth formula discovered, and our supermassive black hole could ...
15 Apr 2014
- 20:45 UTC StarDate Online Giving Birth? A bright streak at the bottom of Saturn's rings may be caused by a small, icy moon that is growing as it captures more ice particles from the rings. The ...
- 18:30 UTC NASA Astrobiology M... Thatand#039;s Containment! ENCORE We all crave power: to run laptops, charge cell phones, and play Angry Birds. But if generating energy is easy, storing it is not. Remember when your computer conked ...
- 17:59 UTC The Space Show Brett Stroozas, Monday, 4-14-14 Guest: Brett Stroozas. Topics: The start-up Elysium Space Burial Company & related topics. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments ...
- 11:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... GLXP Google Lunar XPrize Team Hangout Ep. 002: Chasing th... Streamed live on Mar 31, 2014 Join the +Google Lunar XPRIZE Technical Director, Andrew Barton, to learn about what must be accomplished to win the Google Lunar XPRIZE. http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This ...
- 05:00 UTC The Planetary Socie... Planetary Radio Live at Yuri’s Night—Under Space Shuttle ... Join the party as we celebrate the 53rd anniversary of humanity’s transition to spacefaring species with Yuri’s Night Executive Director Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides, Virgin Galactic CEO and Yuri’s Night co-founder ...
- 05:00 UTC StarDate Online Bright and Fast The star patterns that form pretty pictures in the night sky are all temporary. Over time, their shapes will change, erasing the old pictures and creating new ones. It’s not ...
- 00:00 UTC Astronomy Cast Ep. 342: Sunsetting Spacecraft Everything dies, including our technology. But when we've hurtled a few thousands pounds of robotic instrumentation to another planet, it gets a little difficult to shut it down and clean ...
14 Apr 2014
- 18:30 UTC NASA Astrobiology M... That's Containment! ENCORE We all crave power: to run laptops, charge cell phones, and play Angry Birds. But if generating energy is easy, storing it is not. Remember when your computer conked ...
- 15:12 UTC The Space Show Open Lines, Sunday, 4-13-14 Guest: Open Lines with Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Russian lunar program, UFOs, SpaceX & reusability, NASA. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show ...
- 11:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Astronomy Cast Ep. 341: 45th Lunar and Planetary Science ... Streamed live on Mar 31, 2014 Pamela has a day job, remember? As an astronomer? Recently the 45th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference occurred in the The Woodlands, Texas. Pamela ...
- 07:00 UTC Are We Alone? That's Containment! ENCORE We all crave power: to run laptops, charge cell phones, and play Angry Birds. But if generating energy is easy, storing it is not. Remember when your computer conked ...
- 05:00 UTC StarDate Online More Lunar Eclipse Tonight is one of the best skywatching nights of the year. The planet Mars blazes through the night like a brilliant orange beacon, with the bright star Spica nearby. But ...
13 Apr 2014
- 11:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Learning Space - Scientists for a Day Contest Learning Space is a weekly show about astronomy and science education and outreach. This week, our hosts Dr. Nicole Gugliucci and Georgia Bracey will be talking to Rachel Zimmerman-Brachman about ...
- 05:00 UTC StarDate Online Lunar Eclipse If the Moon’s orbit around Earth were aligned just a little differently, human history might have played out a little differently, too. That’s because eclipses of the Sun and Moon ...
12 Apr 2014
- 22:05 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Learning Space Ep. 49 - Spectroscopy for Everyone 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 ...
- 18:00 UTC At the Eyepiece Ep 91 - Global Astronomy Month, NEAF, Mars Opposition, Lu... GLOBAL ASTRONOMY MONTH - http://astronomerswithoutborders.org/global-astronomy-month-2014.html NEAF 2014!! - http://www.rocklandastronomy.com/NEAF/Index.html New Lodestar X2 Camera - http://www.sxccd.com/lodestar-x2-autoguider Mallincam VRC Telescopes! - http://mallincam.tripod.com/id62.html Mars Opposition - http://www.universetoday.com/111050/mars-opposition-season-2014-images-from-around-the-world/ http://www.telescope.com/Orion-125-Mars-Observation-Eyepiece-Filter-Set/p/5591.uts Lunar Eclipse - http://www.universetoday.com/110780/get-ready-for-the-april-15-2014-total-lunar-eclipse-our-complete-guide/GLOBAL ASTRONOMY ...
- 17:12 UTC The Space Show Dr. Clay Moltz, Friday, 4-12-14 Guest: Dr. Clay Moltz. Topics: We discussed our guest's new book, "Crowded Orbits: Conflict and Cooperation in Space," plus numerous related topics. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space ...
- 11:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... NOAO - Sakurai's Object Rob Sparks talks to Dr. Dick Joyce & Dr. Ken Hinkel about their research and particularly about the nova-like "final flash" object found by a Japanese amateur astronomer. It's an ...
- 05:00 UTC StarDate Online North Galactic Pole Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is shaped like a giant pancake. On dark nights, away from city lights, you can see the outline of that disk as the hazy ...
11 Apr 2014
- 16:00 UTC This Week @ NASA This Week @ NASA, April 11, 2014 A “go” to build OSIRIS-REx,Budget and security hearing,From here to Mars, and more...
- 12:00 UTC Exposing PseudoAstr... Episode 106: A Fission Origin for the Planets, Part 2 From forming the moon by budding it off Earth in the last episode, we go to forming the planets by them budding off the Sun. This is mainly an idea ...
- 11:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Weekly Space Hangout - Space Politics, Skydiving Meteor, ... Streamed live on Apr 4, 2014 Host: Nicole Gugliucci Fraser is busy so he left me the keys to the Weekly Space Hangout. Astrojournalists: Scott Lewis, Nancy Atkinson & Morgan ...
- 05:00 UTC StarDate Online Runaway Stars Like young birds that are leaving their nests for good, a few stars are taking wing from their galactic nest. They’re moving so fast that they’ll eventually escape from the ...
- 00:00 UTC Astronomy Cast Ep. 341: 45th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference Pamela has a day job, remember? As an astronomer? Recently the 45th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference occurred in the The Woodlands, Texas. Pamela and guest astronomer Sondy Springmann will ...
10 Apr 2014
- 16:33 UTC The Space Show John Batchelor Hotel Mars, Wednesday, 4-9-14 Guests: John Batchelor, Marcia Smith Dr. David Livingston. Topics: NASA implementing sanctions against Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency. You are invited to comment, ask questions, and discuss the Space ...
- 16:00 UTC NASACast LDSD: We Brake for Mars NASA tests a supersonic parachute under Mars-like conditions for future exploration.
- 11:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Awesome Astronomy for April 2014 Our hosts are Ralph Wilkins & Paul Hill. Summary of content: The Discussion: This month we briefly discuss the big astronomy discoveries from this month, we look back to National ...
- 09:39 UTC Cheap Astronomy 190. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 013 - 10 April 2014 It's not all warm porridge out there.
- 05:00 UTC StarDate Online Black Widow Pulsars Black widows lurk among the stars. They slowly destroy their companions, ingesting part and sweeping away the remains. These nasty-sounding objects are pulsars — the spinning corpses of once-mighty stars ...
- 05:00 UTC StarDate Online Doomed Mate Powerful winds and radiation from a pulsar (bright dot at center of green and purple cones) heat and erode a companion star in this artist's concept. Over time, this process ...