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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.
- 16:55 UTC The Space Show Alan Boyle, Tuesday, 2-25-14 Guest: Alan Boyle. Topics: Alan discussed a wide range of topics including HSF, suborbital flights, science, Mars & more. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to ...
- 12:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Learning Space Ep. 47 - Jessica Krim - Science Cupcakes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDZYa6P4B-I This week, we'll be talking with Jess Krim about a super-fun demonstration for science class. There will be cupcakes... There is a cupcake sitting on my desk right now ...
- 09:39 UTC Cheap Astronomy 187.1. How the sky works - 26 February 2014 A podcast for when you are lying in the gutter, but still looking up at the stars.
- 09:02 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Andy Poniros - Cosmic Perspective
- 06:00 UTC StarDate Online NGC 2264 To the eye alone, the space between the bright stars Procyon and Betelgeuse looks pretty empty. Unless you’re under a dark country sky, in fact, there’s not much to see ...
- 06:00 UTC StarDate Online Star Factory Hot, massive stars illuminate billowing clouds of gas and dust in this view of NGC 2264, a stellar nursery in Monoceros, the unicorn. Radiation and winds from the bright star ...
- 00:26 UTC StarStuff Earth's oldest rocks found in Western Australia Zircon crystals from Western Australia confirmed to be 4.374 billion years old. Also; the weird pulsar that's raising new questions about astrophysics, and birth of a molecular gas cloud seen ...
25 Feb 2014
- 21:52 UTC Scientific American... Smashing Moon Meteorite Recorded By Astronomers Spanish astronomers spotted a meteorite impact at 61,000 kph using a telescope network that automatically scans the moon. Clara Moskowitz reports. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- 17:28 UTC The Space Show Dr. Madhu Thangavelu, Monday, 2-24-14 Guest: Dr. Madhu Thangavelu. Topics: NEO student intervention & surveillance design projects, advanced technology. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. ...
- 12:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... What If the Sun Didn't Exist - 365 DoA Q&A What if the Sun didn’t exist? By Avivah Yamani. This is a question from a kid in Indonesia written to a site named anakbertanya.com. This is a site for children ...
- 08:00 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Radar Movie Highlights Asteroid 2006 DP14 Radar data of asteroid 2006 DP14 were obtained on Feb. 11, 2014. The asteroid is about 1,300 feet (400 meters) long, 660 feet (200 meters) wide.
- 06:00 UTC The Planetary Socie... The Best Space Movie You Can’t See JPL’s Blaine Baggett and former JPL director Ed Stone talk “The Stuff of Dreams,” a documentary about an era in planetary exploration that was both exhilarating and exasperating. Emily Lakdawalla ...
- 06:00 UTC StarDate Online Monoceros Famed 18th-century astronomer William Herschel described the star system known today as Beta Monocerotis as “one of the most beautiful sights in the heavens.” It’s one of the hidden beauties ...
24 Feb 2014
- 18:06 UTC The Space Show Open Lines, Sunday, 2-23-14 Guests: Open Lines with Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Cubesat markets, cubesat launch restrictions, Mars One, SLS, Falcon, & more. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to ...
- 17:00 UTC NASA's Chandra X-ra... Space Scoop: Super-Sized Space Spider! Astronomers had to combine observations made with two space telescopes to create this photo.
- 12:00 UTC NASA Astrobiology M... Gene Hack, Man ENCORE Computers and DNA have a few things in common. Both use digital codes and are prone to viruses. And, it seems, both can be hacked. From restoring the flavor ...
- 12:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Astronomy Cast Ep. 334: Chelyabinsk, One Year Later Around this time last year a space rock crashed into the Earth above Chelyabinsk, Russia. It brightened the skies for hundreds of kilometers, broke windows and injured many people. Let's ...
- 08:00 UTC Are We Alone? 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 ...
- 06:00 UTC StarDate Online Moon and Venus The Moon and the planet Venus — the dazzling “morning star” — highlight the southeastern sky the next couple of mornings. They’re well up in the sky at first light. ...
- 05:55 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Astronomy Cast Ep. 333 - When Worlds Collide
- 05:00 UTC Tonight's Sky Episode 49: March 2014 Saturn rises by midnight. Use a telescope to find its rings.
- 00:00 UTC Astronomy Cast Ep. 335:Photoelectric Effect Pop quiz. How did Einstein win his Nobel prize? Was it for relativity? Nope, Einstein won the Nobel Prize in 1921 for the discovery of the photoelectric effect; how electrons ...
23 Feb 2014
- 22:00 UTC The Jodcast February 2014 Extra Exotic. In the show this time, Prof. Paul Crowther [13:09 - 30:11] talks to us the most massive stars in the universe, Dr. Ian Harrison [00:46 - 13:03] talks to ...
- 12:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Astro Folklore - Maui, Who Slowed the Sun Our show's producer, Avivah Yamani relates to us a polynesian tale about when Maui and his brothers captured the Sun and slowed down it's progress through the sky, thus lengthening ...
- 06:00 UTC StarDate Online Zeta Cas When you look into the starry night sky, you're not seeing a true sample of the galaxy's multitude of stars. Instead, most of the stars that are visible to the ...
22 Feb 2014
- 16:24 UTC The Space Show Elizabeth Kennick, Teachers In Space, Friday, 2-21-14 Guest: Elizabeth (Liz) Kennick. Topics: Teachers In Space program and projects. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments and questions ...