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19 Feb 2010
- 20:39 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... 4 Astronomers on Why They Do It 4 Astronomers on Why They Do It, by Sandy Antunes. 4 randomly chosen astronomers at the AAS meeting explain why they became astronomers, then try to explain their research is ...
- 18:00 UTC The Jodcast February 2010 Extra In this show we find out about space weather from Jim Wild [00:43-09:01] and talk to Marek Kakula about all things Solar [09:01-14:19], Tim answers your astronomical questions [17:21-37:31], and ...
- 16:57 UTC Science@ESA vodcast Science@ESA: Episode 7: Exploring our backyard, the Solar... In this seventh episode of the Science@ESA vodcast series Rebecca Barnes continues to journey through the wonders of modern astronomy bringing us closer to home as we begin to explore ...
- 16:01 UTC Science@ESA vodcast Science@ESA: Episode 1: The full spectrum (SD) Welcome to the first Science@ESA vodcast. In this first episode Rebecca Barnes sets the scene for this vodcast series by looking at why we need to send telescopes into space ...
18 Feb 2010
- 17:39 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... JPL's 'Free Spirit' Update Clara, Sugar Plum Fairy, move aside. Saturn's moons give Tchaikovsky's classic ballet, 'The Nutcracker,' a graceful new spin in this video compiled from some 61 images taken by the Cassini ...
- 17:24 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Kepler and Extrasolar Asteroids 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 2009. The podcast ...
- 15:00 UTC SkyWatch and Hubble... Show 262: Tycho Crater One of the most obvious craters on the Moon's surface is relatively young crater called Tycho. "Relatively young" in this case means about 108 million years old, but that's still ...
- 15:00 UTC SkyWatch and Hubble... Show 262: Tycho Crater One of the most obvious craters on the Moon's surface is relatively young crater called Tycho. "Relatively young" in this case means about 108 million years old, but that's still ...
- 11:00 UTC The Sky At Night Ma... BBC Sky at Night magazine - Episode Twenty In this month's episode we explore simple astro imaging and how you don't need expensive equipment to take images of the night sky. With just a simple point and shoot ...
- 09:39 UTC Cheap Astronomy 59. On being a black hole - 18 February 2010 Now you can't see it - now you don't.
- 06:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... The Discovery of Pluto The Discovery of Pluto by Ted Haulley. Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto 80 years ago today. The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is a project that is publishing one podcast per ...
- 06:00 UTC Science@NASA podcas... Cool Movie: SDO Destroys a Sundog NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory amazed onlookers last week when it flew past a sundog and destroyed it. Must-see videos of the event captured shock waves from the rocket billowing through ...
- 05:00 UTC SkyWatch and Hubble... Episode 262: Tycho Crater One of the most obvious craters on the Moon's surface is relatively young crater called Tycho. "Relatively young" in this case means about 108 million years old, but that's still ...
17 Feb 2010
- 17:00 UTC NASACast First Medley of WISE Pictures Treat yourself to some of the first images from NASA's recently launched Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer space telescope.
- 08:00 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... First Medley of WISE Pictures Treat yourself to some of the first images from NASA's recently launched Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer space telescope. NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer showcases its first images, including a wispy ...
- 06:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... 80th Anniversary of the Paragould Meteorite 80th Anniversary of the Paragould Meteorite, by Kenneth Renshaw. On February 17, 1930, an 820 lb. meteorite hit Paragould, in northeast Arkansas. At that time, it was the largest stony ...
- 06:00 UTC Science@NASA podcas... 3D Sun for the iPhone Imagine holding the entire sun in the palm of your hand. Now you can. A new iPhone app developed by NASA-supported programmers delivers a live global view of the sun ...
16 Feb 2010
- 23:21 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Chandra: Contemplating Infinity Colin Stuart Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Chandra for short, laid the framework for a revolution that would put him in direct conflict with the scientific establishment. He calculated that some stars could ...
- 18:50 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Eclipsing Binaries 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 2009. The podcast ...
- 06:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... How Did the Earth Form? How Did the Earth Form? By Stuart Clark. Are we really just a piece of cosmic flotsam? The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is a project that is publishing one ...
- 00:58 UTC Talking Space Podca... Episode 207: Stand Clear of the Closing Hatch On this episode, we all have plenty of new experiences to bring to the table. We discuss a letter written by congress fighting against the cancellation of constellation, along with ...
- 00:34 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Dancing in the Dark: Deities, Celebrations, and the Botto...
15 Feb 2010
- 17:01 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... The First Astronomers The First Astronomers by Brains Matter. The Australian Aboriginal people are recognised as being the first astronomers to still have an practising culture to this day. The 365 Days of ...
- 12:18 UTC Brains Matter The First Astronomers Brains Matter has once again contributed to the 365 Days of Astronomy podcast. For this episode, the topic was on The First Astronomers - the Australian Aborigines. Download the show ...
- 08:00 UTC Are We Alone? Sex and the SETI Birds do it. Bees do it. But no one sings about how they do it. And frankly, not even Cole Porter can make bedroom behavior that involves decapitating your mate ...
- 05:00 UTC The Planetary Socie... Buzz Aldrin and Andrew Chaikin on the Proposed NASA Budge... We continue our special coverage of the NASA budget plan submitted by the Obama Administration as we check in with space exploration chronicler Andrew Chaikin and Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz ...
- 00:00 UTC Astronomy Cast Ep. 177: Mysteries of the Milky Way, Part 2 We survived our first group of mysteries, so now we move onto our second set of stuff of amazing Milky Way mysteries. How many spiral arms does our galaxy have, ...
- 00:00 UTC Astronomy Cast Ep. 177: Mysteries of the Milky Way, Part 2 We survived our first group of mysteries, so now we move onto our second set of stuff of amazing Milky Way mysteries. How many spiral arms does our galaxy have, ...
14 Feb 2010
- 13:33 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Star of Wonder Star of Wonder by the Adler Planetarium. Star of Wonder examines the theories behind the celestial event that prompted the Magi (Three Kings) to travel to Bethlehem. Was this light ...
- 09:30 UTC Brains Matter 109 - The Science of Attraction - Live Show This episode is the audio of the first Brains Matter live show. The topic for this show is The Science of Attraction - what is attraction? - what attracts us ...
- 07:31 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Look For Me Up There Look For Me Up There, by Carolyn Collins Petersen. TheSpacewriter takes listeners to the heart of a Bok globule, Eta Carinae, and shares the story of the man who characterized ...
13 Feb 2010
- 17:51 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Dear Lyla, This is Where You Came From 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 2009. The podcast ...
- 07:25 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... BLAST! BLAST! by Nancy Atkinson, with Mark and Paul Devlin. The BLAST telescope looked back to the earliest galaxies. A documentary about the mission has also been filmed. The 365 Days ...
12 Feb 2010
- 20:02 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | SDO's Instruments: AIA SDO Project Scientist Dean Pesnell explains how the SDO's Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument suite will allow us to take pictures of the sun at multiple temperatures and at resolutions ...
- 17:52 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference Preview 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference Preview by Bob Hirschon, AAAS The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is a project that is publishing one podcast per day, 5 to 10 ...
- 05:00 UTC StarDate Online Star party list updated for 2010 From the Pacific to the Atlantic, people will be gathering across America this year to share the wonders of the night sky. Start planning for spring, summer or fall with ...
11 Feb 2010
- 17:00 UTC NASACast Atlas V Launches SDO The Solar Dynamics Observatory heads to space.
- 15:00 UTC Hubblecast HD Hubblecast 33: Saturn's stunning double show Researchers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope recently took advantage of a rare opportunity to record Saturn when its rings are edge-on, resulting in a unique movie featuring both of ...
- 15:00 UTC SkyWatch and Hubble... Show 261: Cosmic Ray Origins The new Fermi telescope joins a suite of gamma ray telescopes searching for the origins of gamma rays, cosmic rays and evidence of other energetic phenomena in the universe. Fermi ...
- 15:00 UTC SkyWatch and Hubble... Show 261: Cosmic Ray Origins The new Fermi telescope joins a suite of gamma ray telescopes searching for the origins of gamma rays, cosmic rays and evidence of other energetic phenomena in the universe. Fermi ...
- 15:00 UTC Hubblecast HD Hubblecast 33: Saturn's stunning double show In January and March 2009, researchers using Hubble took advantage of a rare opportunity to record Saturn when its rings are edge-on, resulting in a unique movie featuring both of ...
- 15:00 UTC Hubblecast HD Hubblecast 33: Saturn's stunning double show In January and March 2009, researchers using Hubble took advantage of a rare opportunity to record Saturn when its rings are edge-on, resulting in a unique movie featuring both of ...
- 14:07 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Once Upon a Lonely Sun Once Upon a Lonely Sun by Pamela Gay. Pamela shares three of her favorite winter objects.
- 09:39 UTC Cheap Astronomy 58. Light 2of2 Wibbly-wobbly spacey-timey stuff - 11 Febr... All this happens before your very eyes.
- 06:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Nature's Most Precise Clocks May Make 'Galactic GPS' Poss... Nature's Most Precise Clocks May Make 'Galactic GPS' Possible, by Kevin John and Paul Ray. The Fermi telescope has discovered 17 millisecond pulsars. The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is ...
- 05:00 UTC SkyWatch and Hubble... Episode 261: Cosmic Ray Origins The new Fermi telescope joins a suite of gamma ray telescopes searching for the origins of gamma rays, cosmic rays and evidence of other energetic phenomena in the universe. Fermi ...
10 Feb 2010
- 17:00 UTC NASA EDGE NASA EDGE: Orion Launch Abort System NASA EDGE previews the development of Orion’s Launch Abort System and discovers Chris’s fascination with smocks.
- 11:00 UTC ESOcast ESOcast 14: Orion in a New Light The Orion Nebula reveals many of its hidden secrets in a dramatic image taken by ESO's new VISTA survey telescope. VISTA - the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy ...
- 06:00 UTC Science@NASA podcas... Are TGFs Hazardous to Air Travelers? Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) surge through thunderstorms at about the same altitude where commercial airliners fly. Do these blasts of gamma-radiation pose a hazard to air travelers? Please vote for ...
- 05:39 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Astronomical Lessons for Life Astronomical Lessons for Life, by Mark Jones. Mark reflects on his experiences with astronomy and the many lessons for life that astronomy has taught him. The 365 Days of Astronomy ...