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6 Mar 2014
- 12:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Cosmic Perspective - Jim Clash interview Our host Andy Poniros interviews adventure journalist, Jim Clash, ticket holder# 610 on @virgingalactic spaceship 2! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's ...
- 06:00 UTC StarDate Online K2 After four years of planet hunting, the Kepler space telescope lost its mojo. Part of its pointing system failed last year, leaving the telescope unable to track its target stars. ...
5 Mar 2014
- 18:11 UTC Scientific American... Giant Black Hole Spins At Half Light Speed The half-the-speed-of-light spin of a giant black hole suggests it grew by digesting another black hole in a galaxy merger. Clara Moskowitz reports. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- 16:30 UTC The Space Show Open Lines, Tuesday, 3-4-14 Guest: Open Lines with Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Launch costs, spy satellites, launch reliability, & much more. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space ...
- 16:00 UTC NASACast Boeing Completes Pilot-in-the-Loop Milestone Former astronaut Chris Ferguson of The Boeing Company demonstrated that the CST-100 spacecraft simulator and software allows a human pilot to take over control of the spacecraft from the computer ...
- 13:55 UTC Sky & Telescope S&T's Audio Sky Tour for April 2014 It's a great month, celestially speaking: the brilliant stars of winter crowd in the southwest at nightfall, Jupiter is joined by Mars, and the first total lunar eclipse in 2½ ...
- 13:32 UTC Cheap Astronomy 187.2. SISS Episode 1, SPHERES - 5 March 2014 Science on the ISS, Episode 1. The real space balls.
- 12:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Learning Space Ep. 48 - Citizen Science in the Classroom ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrLdA6Qvick Today we're talking with Lily Bui from scistarter.com about bringing citizen science projects into the classroom. http://scistarter.com/page/Educators.html http://www.plos.org/ Project NOAH: http://scistarter.com/project/338-Project%20NOAH Email: lily@scistarter.com CoCoRaHS Community Collaborative Network: http://scistarter.com/project/25-CoCoRaHS%3A%20Rain%2C%20Hail%2C%20Snow%20Network? http://crowdcrafting.org/ ...
- 06:00 UTC The Planetary Socie... A Planetary Radio Special Feature: NASA Unveils Its Propo... NASA unveiled its 2015 budget plans in a March 4 media briefing. Minutes later, Planetary Radio host Mat Kaplan got an enlightening and engaging analysis from Planetary Society Director of ...
- 06:00 UTC StarDate Online Double Duty The main mission for the Kepler space telescope has been to look for planets — especially Earth-like planets around Sun-like stars. And it’s been quite successful — it’s discovered more ...
- 06:00 UTC StarDate Online Double Sunset A double sunset colors the skies of Kepler 16, a planet discovered by the Kepler space telescope, in this artist's composite. Kepler has discovered thousands of possible planets, including several ...
- 02:50 UTC StarStuff Black widow pulsar has a killer bite Black widow pulsar discovery opens a new window into the most exotic states of matter. Also; nearest type-1A supernova seen in 77 years, and black holes have a far greater ...
4 Mar 2014
- 17:45 UTC The Space Show Special Monday Open Lines, Monday, 3-3-14 Guest: Open Lines with Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Business plans, due diligence, Mars One, skepticism, cynicism, SpaceX & more. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to ...
- 16:00 UTC NASACast What's Up for March 2014 Jane Houston Jones: What's Up for March. Watch starlight get blocked by a passing asteroid, planets march across the sky and a lunar eclipse preview. Hello and welcome. I'm Jane ...
- 15:00 UTC Hubblecast HD Hubblecast 72: Clues to a cosmic crime The newest episode of the Hubblecast showcases striking new observations of a spiral galaxy moving through the heart of a galaxy cluster named Abell 3627. This cluster is violently ripping ...
- 12:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Blue Marble Space - Astronomy at the Movies Dr. Brendan Mullen and his guests talk about all the bad science that's in today's movies. There's no shortage of bad science coming out of Hollywood by the way. http://cosmoquest.org/Donate ...
- 08:00 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... What's Up - March 2014 Watch starlight get blocked by a passing asteroid, planets march across the sky and a lunar eclipse preview.
- 06:00 UTC The Planetary Socie... Verified: More Than 700 New Worlds SETI Institute researcher and member of the Kepler team Jason Rowe helps us dig into the latest big announcement about hundreds of planets in solar systems like our own.
- 06:00 UTC StarDate Online In-Between Planets Over the past five years, the Kepler space telescope has discovered thousands of possible planets in other star systems. Some are small, like Earth. Others are big and fluffy, like ...
3 Mar 2014
- 19:30 UTC NASA Astrobiology M... Space for Everyone Is space the place for you? With a hefty amount of moolah, a trip there and back can be all yours. But when the price comes down, traffic into space ...
- 17:58 UTC The Space Show Dr. Alan Stern & Bas Lansdorp, Sunday, 3-2-14 Guests: Dr. Alan Stern & Bas Lansdorp. Topics: Uwingu's Mars crater naming opportunities & Mars One partnership. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space ...
- 17:00 UTC NASA's Chandra X-ra... Space Scoop: The Galactic Empire Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is more than just a giant barred spiral containing hundreds of billions of stars.
- 12:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Astronomy Cast Ep. 335 - The Photoelectric Effect Streamed live on Feb 17, 2014 Pop quiz. How did Einstein win his Nobel prize? Was it for relativity? Nope, Einstein won the Nobel Prize in 1921 for the discovery ...
- 08:00 UTC Are We Alone? Space for Everyone Is space the place for you? With a hefty amount of moolah, a trip there and back can be all yours. But when the price comes down, traffic into space ...
- 06:00 UTC StarDate Online Kepler The star system Kepler 90 is like a compact version of our own solar system. The star itself is quite similar to the Sun. And it’s encircled by a family ...
- 06:00 UTC StarDate Online Worlds Galore In the five years since its launch, the Kepler space telescope has discovered thousands of possible planets, including a confirmed three-planet system known as KOI-961, shown here in an artist's ...
2 Mar 2014
- 12:00 UTC NASA Astrobiology M... Before the Big Bang ENCORE It’s one of the biggest questions you can ask: has the universe existed forever? The Big Bang is supposedly the moment it all began. But now scientists wonder if ...
- 12:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Awesome Astronomy - March Sky Guide Summary of content: Our hosts Ralph Wilkins & Paul Hill tell us what to look out, and up, for in March. We start with the constellation of Leo in our ...
- 06:00 UTC StarDate Online Pollux The twins of Gemini — the stars Castor and Pollux — stride boldly across the sky on March evenings. Tonight, they’re high in the east as night falls, not far ...
1 Mar 2014
- 17:23 UTC The Space Show Stephen Murphy, Friday, 2-28-14 Guest: Stephen Murphy. Topics: Do It Yourself Space (DIY), space exploration for all, open hardware, DIY entrepreneurial opportunities. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the ...
- 12:00 UTC Exposing PseudoAstr... Episode 102: Q&A; and D at the Launceston Skeptics in the... A Q&A and discussion happened after I gave my presentation at the Launceston Skeptics in the Pub (Episode 99). Listen in as we talk about the goals of skepticism, what ...
- 12:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Observing With Webb - March 2014 The night sky highlights for March are front and center for today's podcast! Jupiter dominates the sky till 3AM. Mars will be in Virgo and is growing in size. Saturn ...
- 06:00 UTC StarDate Online Castor Sextuplets are as rare among stars as they are among people. Even so, a famous set of sextuplets arcs high across the sky on March evenings: Castor, the second-brightest star ...
28 Feb 2014
- 18:02 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | GPM Rocket Launch A Japanese H-IIA rocket with the NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory onboard, is seen launching from th Tanegashima Space Center, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, ...
- 18:02 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Peeling Back Landsat''s Layers of Data Landsat satellites circle the globe, recording data in 11 different wavelengths. The individual wavelength bands can be combined into color images, with different combinations of the 11 bands revealing different ...
- 18:02 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | MMS Engineering Challenges It''s hard enough to build one spacecraft, but the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) is building four. Together, the spacecraft will unlock the mysteries of magnetic reconnection, when magnetic fields explosively ...
- 18:02 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Landsat 8 Celebrates First Year in Orbit On Feb. 11, 2013, Landsat 8 launched into Earth orbit, riding on an Atlas V rocket. Weighing 6,133 pounds, Landsat 8 is the eigth satellite in the long-running Landsat program, ...
- 16:00 UTC NASACast Space to Ground - 02/28/14 V.O.: Houston, station on space to ground. Josh Byerly: Welcome to Space To Ground, your weekly look at what’s happening on board the ISS. I’m Josh Byerly. More CubeSats were ...
- 16:00 UTC NASACast Space to Ground: Feb. 28, 2014 V.O.: Houston, station on space to ground. Josh Byerly: Welcome to Space To Ground, your weekly look at what’s happening on board the ISS. I’m Josh Byerly. More CubeSats were ...
- 16:00 UTC NASACast This Week @ NASA, February 28, 2014 “Here’s some of the stories trending This Week at NASA!” Global precipitation satellite launches
- 12:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Weekly Space Hangout - Two Man Show Streamed live on Feb 21, 2014 Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Astrojournalist: Morgan Rehnberg ( http://cosmicchatter.org/ - @cosmic_chatter) This Week's Stories: - ESA evaluates Uranus and Neptune missions - Curiosity changing ...
- 08:00 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA's AIRS Sees Rivers of Rain for California NASA's AIRS instrument eyes the 'atmospheric rivers' -- narrow channels of concentrated moisture -- bringing rain to drought-stricken California at the end of February.
- 06:45 UTC StarDate Online Ruffled Rose A detailed infrared view of the Rosette Nebula shows dense knots of gas and dust where new stars are forming, surrounded by vast clouds of more diffuse material. The Rosette ...
- 06:00 UTC StarDate Online Rosette Nebula Most stars begin their lives in colorful style — inside giant, glowing clouds of gas and dust. One beautiful example is the Rosette Nebula, which looks like a delicate rose. ...
27 Feb 2014
- 17:00 UTC NASA's Chandra X-ra... Space Scoop: The Space Olympics Most stars are like long-distance marathon runners, as they are constantly moving in space throughout their lifetimes.
- 16:58 UTC The Space Show The John Batchelor Show "Hotel Mars," Wednesday, 12-26-14 Guests: John Batchelor, Doug Messier, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Virgin Galactic, hybrid engines, space tourism. You are invited to comment, ask questions, and discuss the Space Show program/guest(s) on the ...
- 12:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Cosmic Chatter - Monthly News Roundup Morgan Rehnberg (@cosmic_chatter) and Vivienne Baldassare bring us the the Monthly News Roundup. This episode was produced February 24th in Boulder, Colorado. - The case of the disappearing asteroid! - ...
- 06:00 UTC StarDate Online Cone Nebula The celestial unicorn isn’t much to look at. Monoceros includes only a smattering of stars bright enough to see with the unaided eye — and none of them represents the ...
26 Feb 2014
- 21:30 UTC At the Eyepiece EP 88 - John Dobson, SuperNova, SunDay 2014! - Feb 26,201... Today on episode 88 of the At The Eyepiece Show John Dobson - 1915-2014 New Guiding / Planetary Camera - Atik GP Guiding & Planetrary Camera - $479 http://www.optcorp.com/atik-gp-guiding-planetary-ccd-camera-monochrome.html New ...
- 17:00 UTC NASA's Chandra X-ra... A Tour of IGR J11014-6103 This object is a pulsar, the spinning dense core that remains after a massive star has exploded and collapsed.