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12 Oct 2009
- 11:31 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... The Brightest Stars in the Sky AAVSO In today's episode we discuss the brightest stars in the sky, and the little known fact that about one in three of them is actually a variable star. Some ...
- 11:00 UTC StarTalk Podcast StarTalk: Pop Space
- 07:00 UTC Are We Alone? Extreme Geology >p>We think of major geologic events as taking place a long time ago – but the Earth is just as active as it ever was. We’re a planet in motion. ...
- 06:09 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Your Nook in the Incredible Universe 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 ...
- 04:00 UTC The Planetary Socie... Lunar Smackdown! Special LCROSS Impact Coverage There was no plume of lunar regolith and no confirmation of water, but the Lunar CRarter ObServing Satellite or LCROSS mission smacked into the Moon as planned early Friday morning, ...
- 00:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Lovell Telescope Lovell Telescope by Stuart Lowe and Tim O'Brien. On this day in 1957, the newly constructed Mark I telescope at Jodrell Bank became involved in the dawn of the space ...
- 00:00 UTC Astronomy Cast Ep. 159: Planet X Astronomers have been searching for the mysterious Planet X for hundreds of years. It was the search for a theoretical planet beyond Uranus that turned up Neptune, and then again ...
- 00:00 UTC Astronomy Cast Ep. 159: Planet X Astronomers have been searching for the mysterious Planet X for hundreds of years. It was the search for a theoretical planet beyond Uranus that turned up Neptune, and then again ...
11 Oct 2009
- 00:18 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Measuring Time
- 00:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Quiet Skies Quiet Skies by Sue Ann Heatherly of NRAO On todays's podcast we talk with Carla Beaudet, an engineer at the NRAO who spends her days combatting radio pollution or “radio ...
10 Oct 2009
- 19:51 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Epo's Chronicles
- 00:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... I Know Why it's Dark at Night. Do You? I know why it's dark at night. Do you? by Terry Johnson and friends. A "Car Talk"-like discussion of Olbers' Paradox. The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is a project ...
9 Oct 2009
- 18:11 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... The Search for Distant Worlds The Search for Distant Worlds by Christopher Crockett In the past 14 years, we have gone from knowing of no other planets around other stars to cataloguing over 300 of ...
- 16:00 UTC This Week @ NASA NASA TV's This Week @NASA, October 9
8 Oct 2009
- 21:37 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Stargazing with Kids
- 15:00 UTC SkyWatch and Hubble... Show 242: LCROSS The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission is designed to determine whether water ice is present on the Moon. Water is always an issue for future lunar exploration. ...
- 09:39 UTC Cheap Astronomy 39. The outer limits - 8 October 2009 The little dent in space-time made by our Sun extends out to about two light years. And we're only just starting to learn what's out there near the back fence.
- 04:00 UTC SkyWatch and Hubble... Episode 242: LCROSS The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission is designed to determine whether water ice is present on the Moon. Water is always an issue for future lunar exploration. ...
- 00:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Learning About Seasons in a Planetarium Learning About Seasons in a Planetarium, by Chuck Dibbs and Virginia Beach City Public Schools. Oe topic continues to give students and adults of all ages trouble: What is the ...
7 Oct 2009
- 22:10 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Science for a Hungry World: Part 3 NASA remote sensing data is used to measure how much land is used for agriculture and where farms are in relation to population density. This episode explore the transition between ...
- 22:00 UTC As It Happened: Ho... Apollo 17: On the Shoulders of Giants This 1972 documentary chronicles the final trip of humans to the Moon.
- 17:00 UTC NASA's Chandra X-ra... NGC 6240 in 60 Seconds NGC 6240 is a system in which two supermassive black holes are a mere 3,000 light years apart, virtually nothing in astronomical terms.
- 16:00 UTC NASACast Science for a Hungry World, Pt. 3 University of Maryland Professor Chris Justice spends his time studying land use change through a NASA-funded satellite remote sensing project.
- 06:00 UTC Science@NASA podcas... Microwaving Water from Moondust NASA scientists have figured out how to extract water from lunar soil. Their approach is as easy as using a microwave oven. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get ...
- 06:00 UTC Science@NASA podcas... Giant Ring Discovered Around Saturn Just when you thought every big thing in the Solar System had already been discovered, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found an extraordinary new ring around Saturn. Please vote for ...
- 00:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Mira and the Pulsating Red Giants Mira and the Pulsating Red Giants by AAVSO. Today we’re going to introduce you to a group of stars known as long period variables, or LPVs for short. The 365 ...
6 Oct 2009
- 18:10 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | Arctic Sea Ice 101 NASA climate scientist Tom Wagner provides a look at the state of Arctic sea ice in 2009 and discusses NASA's role in monitoring the cryosphere.
- 12:24 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Moon Town - Scifi in Webcomics
- 06:00 UTC Science@NASA podcas... The Fall of the Maya: 'They Did it to Themselves' Archeologists are using NASA satellites and supercomputers to crack the mystery of the ancient Maya. New findings suggest the Maya may have played a key role in their own downfall. ...
- 00:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Crashing to Ground: Anniversary of the Impact of 2008 TC3 Crashing to Ground: Anniversary of the Impact of 2008 TC3 by Emily Lakdawalla The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is a project that is publishing one podcast per day, 5 ...
5 Oct 2009
- 13:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Grote Reber: The First Radio Astronomer 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 ...
- 11:00 UTC StarTalk Podcast StarTalk: Science and Art Geometry, physics and the other sciences describe the world we live in, and artists often play with these properties in their own imaginative investigations. From the drawings of Leonardo Da ...
- 07:00 UTC Are We Alone? Say What? There’s no escape from the chattering classes – they talk, squawk, squeal and sing all around us. Every animal communicates in some form – it’s essential for survival. They’ve evolved ...
- 06:00 UTC Science@NASA podcas... LCROSS Viewer's Guide On Friday morning, Oct. 9th, you can watch a pair of spacecraft crash into the Moon with your own eyes. The purposeful impacts are the climax of NASA's LCROSS mission ...
- 04:00 UTC The Planetary Socie... Water on the Moon! University of Maryland Senior Research Scientist Jessica Sunshine was part of the recent discovery of water on Earth's Moon. Bill Nye the Science and Planetary Guy says Viking 2 came ...
- 00:00 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 The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is a project that is publishing ...
- 00:00 UTC Astronomy Cast Ep. 158: Pulsars Imagine an object with the mass of the Sun, crushed down to the size of Manhattan. Now set that object spinning hundreds of times a second, blasting out powerful beams ...
- 00:00 UTC Astronomy Cast Ep. 158: Pulsars Imagine an object with the mass of the Sun, crushed down to the size of Manhattan. Now set that object spinning hundreds of times a second, blasting out powerful beams ...
4 Oct 2009
- 06:40 UTC Slacker Astronomy North Star Special A thorough and lengthy show about the North Star, Polaris, including an interview with Dr. Edward Guinan.
- 00:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Measuring Time Measuring Time by Nik Whitehead. Most people think of astronomy as being completely unrelated to their daily lives. They couldn't be more wrong The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is ...
3 Oct 2009
- 17:30 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Red fireballs, Quiet Quakes and Heat Haze Red fireballs, Quiet Quakes and Heat Haze by the Society for Popular Astronomy. What you'd feel if you were at the epicentre of a moonquake, what meteor showers are coming ...
2 Oct 2009
- 17:00 UTC The Jodcast October 2009 Interfering. In this show we have an interview with Robert Laing about interferometers and ALMA [14:16-29:49], and we talk to Willem Baan about interference in radio astronomy [29:57-40:33]. As always, ...
- 16:00 UTC This Week @ NASA NASA TV's This Week @NASA, October 2
- 15:10 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | SDO Engineers Create What Never Was Engineers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center talk about what it is like to build, assemble, integrate, and test a custom-made spacecraft like the soon to be launched Solar Dynamics ...
- 06:10 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Eyes above: the emotions of a scientific discovery We are a group of astronomers working together, searching the sky above our observatory for new worlds, small solar system bodies, and super-massive black holes in galaxies billions of light ...
- 00:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Moon Town - Scifi in Webcomics Moon Town - Scifi in Webcomics. Paul Caggegi of The Process Diary talks to Steve Ogden about his free online web comic Moon Town The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast ...
1 Oct 2009
- 16:00 UTC NASACast Kennedy Space Center America's gateway to space yesterday, today and tomorrow.
- 15:00 UTC SkyWatch and Hubble... Show 241: Asteroid Tracking Falls Short NASA says that without more funding, it will not meet the asteroid tracking goals mandated by Congress. NASA hopes to spot 90% of potentially dangerous objects by 2020. Large asteroids ...
- 09:39 UTC Cheap Astronomy 38. Kepler's laws of planetary motion - 1 October 2009 Oh come on, there's only three of them.
- 04:00 UTC What's Up in Astron... Episode 143: Mercury, Venus, and Saturn in Predawn The planets Mercury, Venus, and Saturn will be in the early morning sky for much of October, and I discuss the various pairings that will occur over the next two ...