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8 Feb 2010
- 20:35 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... The Supernova that Bounces The Supernova that Bounces, by Rob Bowman. Rob describes the before, during and after of a Type II supernova – also called by a much better name: A “Core Bounce ...
- 17:00 UTC NASACast STS-130: Spectacular Liftoff Space shuttle Endeavour blazes a trail toward orbit.
- 12:53 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Are You Sure Those are Moons by Jove?
- 08:00 UTC EarthSky Interviews Phil Plait - the Bad Astronomer blogger - on NASA's futur... 'Bad Astronomer' Phil Plait talked to EarthSky about the coming year's budget for NASA. U.S. President Barack Obama announced the new budget in early February of 2010. In it - ...
- 08:00 UTC EarthSky Interviews Tom Woods studies sun in super HD with NASA Solar Dynamic... In early February, 2010, the US space agency NASA launched a mission called the Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO. It carries instruments to take frequent and detailed images of our ...
- 08:00 UTC Are We Alone? Pave New Worlds The extra-solar planet count is more than 400 and rising. Before long we may find an Earth-like planet around another star. If we do, and can visit, what next? Stake ...
7 Feb 2010
- 06:12 UTC Slacker Astronomy Interview: Kevin Krisciunas Mike Simonsen interviews Kevin Krisciunas about his recent paper that describes how to measure the eccentricity of the moon's orbit with a yardstick and some cardboard and lots of other ...
- 06:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Retro Science: Determining the Eccentricity of the Moon's... Retro Science: Determining the Eccentricity of the Moon's Orbit by Slacker Astronomy. Mike Simonsen from Slacker Astronomy interviews Kevin Krisciunas about his recent paper that describes how to measure the ...
6 Feb 2010
- 17:00 UTC NASACast STS-130: What's Going Up? Items to fly aboard space shuttle Endeavour.
- 03:35 UTC Talking Space Podca... Episode 206: Twalk.in about SaveNASA… On this very special episode, the Talking Space team is joined by a few special guests. The first is Neal Wiser from the website SaveNASA, which is located at http://savenasa.ning.com. ...
- 00:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Expanding an Already Very Large Array Expanding an Already Very Large Array by Nicole Gugliucci Find out more about what the new Expanded Very Large Array will have in store. The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast ...
5 Feb 2010
- 21:00 UTC Hidden Universe HD The Many Views of the Milky Way In May of 2009, the European Space Agency launched the Herschel Space Observatory, a new eye on the infrared universe.
- 21:00 UTC NASA's Spitzer Spac... Trigger Happy Star Formations From recent discoveries made by two of NASA's Great Observatories comes new insight into how stars are created. Large nebula's scattered all around our galaxy, act as incubators for newborn ...
- 17:00 UTC NASACast Spirit's Last Moves Before Winter Recent drive commands have concentrated on improving Spirit’s tilt toward the sun as the Martian winter approaches.
- 09:52 UTC Cheap Astronomy 57. Light 1of2 Light and a bit of dark - 4 February 2010
- 08:00 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Spirit's Last Moves Before Winter Recent drive commands have concentrated on improving Spirit's tilt toward the sun as the Martian winter approaches.
- 06:00 UTC Science@NASA podcas... Solar Dynamics Observatory: The 'Variable Sun' Mission The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), slated for liftoff on Feb. 9th, will make IMAX-quality movies of solar explosions, peer beneath the stellar surface to see the sun's inner dynamo, and--researchers ...
- 00:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Getting Started in Astronomy: Then and Now Getting Started in Astronomy: Then and Now by David Chapman and Andrea Misner The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is a project that is publishing one podcast per day, 5 ...
4 Feb 2010
- 17:00 UTC NASA's Chandra X-ra... NGC 1399 in 60 Seconds Evidence from Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Magellan telescopes in Chile suggest that a star has been torn apart by an intermediate-mass black hole.
- 17:00 UTC NASACast What’s Up for February? Everyone who aims a modest telescope, or even binoculars, at Jupiter will see the same view that Galileo did 400 years ago.
- 09:39 UTC Cheap Astronomy 57. Light 1of2 Light and a bit of dark - 4 February 2010 We don't call it electromagnetic radiation for nothing.
- 08:00 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... What's Up for February? This month we celebrate the 400th anniversary of Galileo's first telescopic view of Jupiter and its 4 largest moons.
- 00:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Spectroscopy 101 Spectroscopy 101 by Richard Drumm. Richard Drumm talks about the basics of how spectroscopy works and why it is so interesting to professional astronomers. The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast ...
3 Feb 2010
- 15:02 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Postcards from the Universe Postcards from the Universe: Behind the scenes at the launch of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year exhibition
- 05:55 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... The GLOBE at Night Campaign: Our Light or Starlight? The GLOBE at Night Campaign: Our Light or Starlight? by Connie Walker. Light pollution is obscuring people's natural heritage to view the night sky. The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast ...
2 Feb 2010
- 18:56 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Universe Awareness: Children's Voices By Carolina Ödman. Universe Awareness (UNAWE) is the only IYA2009 cornerstone project specifically for children. UNAWE started in 2005 and has now active groups in nearly 30 countries. The programme ...
- 06:00 UTC Science@NASA podcas... Hubble Sees Suspected Asteroid Collision NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on collision between two asteroids. Please vote for this podcast at ...
- 00:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Amateur Astronomy's Affliction: Aperture Fever Amateur Astronomy's Affliction: Aperture Fever by RapidEye. An analysis and examples of the dark side of Amateur Astronomy. The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is a project that is publishing ...
1 Feb 2010
- 23:59 UTC The Jodcast February 2010 ING direct. We have a couple of interview with scientists at the Isaac Newton Group of telescopes. We find out about the observatory and compact binaries from Dr Pablo Rodríguez-Gil ...
- 23:33 UTC Talking Space Podca... Episode 205: No Moon, No Mars, No Service On this episode of the Talking Space Podcast, the crew discusses the recent rumors surrounding what is to come of NASA’s budget. Just a reminder, this was recorded on Sunday, ...
- 08:21 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Migration by Celestial Navigation Migration by Celestial Navigation by Wild Ideas. Wild Ideas...the Podcast is a nature podcast. We’d like to share some of the many connections between astronomy and animal species in the ...
- 08:00 UTC EarthSky Interviews David Schlegel says BOSS will use ancient sound waves to ... David Schlegel: We have these big unknowns about the overall construction of the universe. I hope we get some answers. [...]
- 05:00 UTC The Planetary Socie... Mars Rover Project Manager John Callas John Callas returns to tell us why, after six years, an end to Spirit's roving does not mean the end of her work on the red planet. Emily Lakdawalla looks ...
31 Jan 2010
- 17:36 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... 2012: The Impact 2012: The Impact by Bill Hudson. Bill uses some ‘impact statements’ to explain his motivation for fighting the “2012 doomsday” rumors. The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is a project ...
- 06:34 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Astronomical Ballooning- Or, What Goes Up Must Come Down
- 01:30 UTC Brains Matter 108 - Is Intelligent Life Common in the Universe?
- 01:30 UTC Brains Matter 108 - Is Intelligent Life Common in the Universe? A question that everyone asks at some point is - are we alone? We’ve all heard about the Drake Equation, and have had chats about our place in the universe ...
30 Jan 2010
- 20:54 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... The Palomar Transient Factory
- 00:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... The Universe in 10 Minutes The Universe in 10 Minutes by The TecnoCasters. Several recent news items about astronomy and technology. The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is a project that is publishing one podcast ...
29 Jan 2010
- 23:28 UTC NASA Blueshift Blueshift - January 31, 2010: A Meeting of the Minds Professional meetings are a part of the lives of most scientists - but what actually goes on at one of these? It's not just sitting in meetings and listening to ...
- 19:26 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... John Glenn's Fireflies and the Astronauts' Constellation
- 17:00 UTC This Week @ NASA NASA TV's This Week @NASA, January 29
- 09:39 UTC Cheap Astronomy no title An interview with Duane Hamacher.
- 09:39 UTC Cheap Astronomy 56. The Dreamtime meteor crater - 29 January 2010 An interview with Duane Hamacher.
- 06:00 UTC Science@NASA podcas... Firefly Mission to Study Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes There's a mystery in the skies of Earth: Something is producing bright flashes of gamma radiation in the upper atmosphere of our own planet. A new NASA-NSF mission called Firefly ...
28 Jan 2010
- 17:00 UTC NASACast: Earth Vid... 2009 Global Temperature Package: Year Tied as Second Hott... Climate scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies or GISS just released a new analysis of global average temperatures showing that 2009 was tied as the second warmest year ...
- 00:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... A Series of Spectacular Events A Series of Spectacular Events by Colm Ryan. Colm Ryan talks about some key moments during the last 10 years: a spectacular auroral display, an intense meteor storm and strange ...
27 Jan 2010
- 07:13 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Earth Clones Earth Clones by Chris Impey. This podcast talks about the issues involved in detecting terrestrial planets and the likelihood that they will be discovered in the next few years. The ...
26 Jan 2010
- 17:00 UTC NASA 360 Vodcasts NASA 360: A Look Ahead... X-48B NASA 360 travels to the California desert to watch an X-48B remotely-controlled scale model take flight.
- 17:00 UTC NASACast Spirit of Mars Six years of exploration through the "eyes" of the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit