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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
- 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 Space to Ground: Capturing a Dragon: 1/16/15
- 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) ...
- 13:32 UTC Cheap Astronomy 199.2 Snippet_StarShips - 14 January 2015 Some starships are really hot.
- 13:32 UTC Cheap Astronomy 199.3 Snippet_StarShips - 14 January 2015 Some starships are really hot.
- 12:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Learning Space Quickie #5: The Itty Bitty Radio Telescope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDA2_uWgrmg Uploaded on Jan 7, 2015 For instructions and more information, see: http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/epo/teachers/ittybitty/procedure.html http://www.gb.nrao.edu/epo/ibt.shtml http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too ...
- 11:00 UTC ESOcast ESOcast 71: New Exoplanet-hunting Telescopes on Paranal This ESOcast takes a close look at an unusual new group of small telescopes that has recently achieved first light at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in northern Chile.
- 08:00 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Approaching Titan a Billion Times Closer Drop into Titan with the Huygens probe in this video made using data from Cassini and ESA's historic mission.
- 06:00 UTC StarDate Online Huygens The most remote object yet touched by the work of human hands is Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. That contact came 10 years ago today, when a probe known ...
- 05:25 UTC StarStuff Comet Lovejoy fireworks bring in the new year Comet Lovejoy provides a spectacular start to 2015. Also; the Dawn spacecraft begins final approach to the asteroid Ceres, and New Horizons turns on its science instruments as it prepares ...
13 Jan 2015
- 18:30 UTC Star Trek: The Rewa... S02E05 Loud As A Whisper The Enterprise brings a deaf negotiator to mediate the end of a planetary civil war. In a long line of peace-negotiation episodes, this one has a cool twist. There’s some ...
- 16:47 UTC The Space Show Michael Listner, Andrew Rush, Monday, 1-12-15 Guests: Michael Listner, Andrew Rush. Topics: The legal news and proceedings regarding SpaceX challenges to the Blue Origin Sea Landing Patent & Air Force certification delays for SpaceX & SpaceX ...
- 12:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Cheap Astronomy - Sunshine Steve Nerlich hosts. He tells us about how the nuclear fusion in the Sun's core progresses and gives us a little ray of sunshine a few million years later. www.cheapastro.com ...
- 06:00 UTC StarDate Online Close Escape A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a black hole grabbed a quick snack — it ripped away some gas from the surface of a nearby star. ...
- 06:00 UTC The Planetary Socie... Dr. J and the World’s Biggest Telescope Joe Liske, host of Hubblecast, is also the top scientist on the European Southern Observatory’s European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), now under construction on a Chilean mountaintop. “Dr. J” tells ...
12 Jan 2015
- 18:09 UTC The Space Show Kelvin F. Long, Sunday, 1-11-15 Guest: Kelvin F. Long. Topics: Interstellar spaceflight, his book, "Beyond the Boundary." Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments and ...
- 17:00 UTC NASA's Chandra X-ra... Tour of Sagittarius A* Over the years, astronomers have learned many things about Sagittarius A* and it continues to surprise and intrigue scientists to this day.
- 15:42 UTC Are We Alone? How to Talk to Aliens "Dear E.T. …” So far, so good. But now what? Writing is never easy, but what if your task was to craft a message to aliens living elsewhere in the ...
- 12:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Astronomy Cast Ep. 363: Where Did The Earth's Water come ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGTPvHo938I Streamed live on Jan 5, 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 ...
- 09:28 UTC Royal Astronautical... Cierva Lecture 2010 Frank Robinson discusses the importance of simplicity in rotorcraft design and how simplicity of design and technology is critical to all aspects of aviation.
- 06:00 UTC StarDate Online Survivor Astronomers around the world spent much of last year looking for fireworks from the center of the Milky Way galaxy. But like a Fourth-of-July show that’s been rained out, nothing ...
- 02:00 UTC The Star Spot Episode 68: Inspiring Images of the Cosmos, with Jayanne ... Feature Guest: Jayanne English We've all been blown away by those jaw dropping majestic images of the cvosmos. But would you feel deceived to know that few of those images ...
- 00:00 UTC Astronomy Cast Ep. 362: Modern Women: Carolyn Porco It hard to think of a more influential modern planetary scientist than Carolyn Porco, the leader of the imaging team for NASA’s Cassini mission exploring Saturn. But before Cassini, Porco ...
11 Jan 2015
- 15:54 UTC StarTalk Radio Cosmic Queries: Gravity (Repeat) The pull of gravity (the force, not the movie) is irresistible as Neil deGrasse Tyson and Leighann Lord grapple with weighty fan questions about matter and the curvature of spacetime.
- 12:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... AAAS - Science Update Podcast: Mercury Naming Contest Bob Hirshon hosts. American Association for the Advancement of Science www.aaas.org The home page for the contest is http://namecraters.carnegiescience.edu/ Description: To commemorate the end of the MESSENGER mission to planet ...
- 07:49 UTC The Titanium Physic... Episode 53: Consistent Variables Vicky Scowcroft and David Tsang were talkin' to me, and i was like "Yoooo what kind of show topic should we do" and Vicky was like "Cepheid Variables" so i ...
- 06:00 UTC StarDate Online Johannes Hartmann Orion’s Belt is one of the highlights of winter nights. Right now it’s in good view in the east-southeast at nightfall, with its three stars standing straight up from the ...
10 Jan 2015
- 18:23 UTC The Space Show Dr. Haym Benaroya, Friday, 1-9-15 Guest: Dr. Haym Benaroya. Topics: Reality check for lunar settlement construction & habitat. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments ...
- 16:41 UTC Space Talk with Jim... Just Cruisin' w/ Larry Jackson 1/10/15 Just Cruisin' w/ Larry Jackson 1/10/15 Larry talks about what's new with the cruising industry.
- 12:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... NOAO - The Gemini Observatory Rob Sparks hosts. Description: The Gemini Observatory is an international collaboration that runs twin 8.1 meter telescopes, one located on the island of Hawaii and the other on Cerro Pachon ...
- 06:00 UTC StarDate Online Venus and Mercury Mercury is a frustrating little planet. It’s one of our closest neighbors, passing within about 50 million miles of Earth. Yet because it’s the closest planet to the Sun, it ...
- 00:00 UTC Naked Astronomy Space Exploration in 2015 - 15.01.10 - Naked Astronomy Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham are joined by the BBC's Jon Amos and ExoMars' Andrew Coates. They look ahead at the most exciting missions of 2015 so expect ...
9 Jan 2015
- 16:00 UTC NASACast This Week @ NASA, January 9, 2015 SpaceX's next commercial resupply launch, NASA astronomical findings, a new soil moisture mission, and more..
- 16:00 UTC NASACast Space to Ground: Flying High: 1/09/15 On this week's episode of "Space to Ground," Expedition 42 waits for SpaceX's fifth Dragon mission carrying a new group of insect residents.