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7 Sep 2009
- 00:00 UTC Astronomy Cast Ep. 154: Dragon*Con Live with Seth Shostak This week we step away from our regular programming to bring you a live show from Dragon*Con in Atlanta. Pamela shares the stage with SETI researcher Seth Shostak. Together they ...
- 00:00 UTC Astronomy Cast Ep. 154: Dragon*Con Live with Seth Shostak This week we step away from our regular programming to bring you a live show from Dragon*Con in Atlanta. Pamela shares the stage with SETI researcher Seth Shostak. Together they ...
6 Sep 2009
- 00:00 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 ...
5 Sep 2009
- 00:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... A-Hunting We Will Go! The largest telescope ever built for a NASA mission soared beyond Earth’s orbit on March 7, 2009, looking not for ET, but rather ET’s home. The Kepler mission is hunting ...
4 Sep 2009
- 21:00 UTC NASA's Spitzer Spac... Baby Stars Found Jumbled In Galactic Center At the center of our Milky Way galaxy is an area previously unseen by astronomers. Shrouded by clouds of swirling dusts and gases, before now our astronomers could only guess ...
- 16:00 UTC NASACast: This Week... NASA TV's This Week @NASA, September 4
- 16:00 UTC NASACast Audio NASA TV's This Week @NASA, September 4
- 16:00 UTC NASACast What’s Up for September? This month we're showcasing the planet Jupiter, and we'll be telling you about Juno -- a mission to Jupiter that launches in 2011.
- 12:43 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Galileo's Telescope 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 ...
- 08:46 UTC Astronomy a Go Go! Tour of the Sky: September 2009 Astronomy a Go Go! September Sky Tour This tool displays the approximate Moon phases for a given month(images are close approximations). For official phase times and dates for this month ...
- 00:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Saturn's Rings Do a Disappearing Trick Summary: Today Earth crosses the plane of Saturn's rings, a special event that happens only once every fifteen years. I'll explain how ring plane crossings produce discoveries of moons, and ...
- 00:00 UTC NASA's Spitzer Spac... Baby Stars Found Jumbled In Galactic Center At the center of our Milky Way galaxy is an area previously unseen by astronomers. Shrouded by clouds of swirling dusts and gases, before now our astronomers could only guess ...
- 00:00 UTC NASA's Spitzer Spac... Baby Stars Found Jumbled In Galactic Center At the center of our Milky Way galaxy is an area previously unseen by astronomers. Shrouded by clouds of swirling dusts and gases, before now our astronomers could only guess ...
3 Sep 2009
- 23:00 UTC Hidden Universe HD Showcase: EX Lupi The fading light of a flaring young star has shed light on a puzzle involving crystals and comets...
- 15:00 UTC SkyWatch and Hubble... Show 236: Solar System Shake Up Was the solar system always the organized clockwork system envisioned by Isaac Newton? According to a computer model of the early epoch of the solar system, the answer is "no." ...
- 09:39 UTC Cheap Astronomy 33. Project Constellation 1of2 The launch systems - 3 Sep... A peek under the hood of Project Constellation finds a mix of do-able and aspirational components.
- 06:00 UTC Science@NASA podcas... Are Sunspots Disappearing? The sun is in the pits of the deepest solar minimum in a century. Weeks and sometimes whole months go by without even a single tiny sunspot. The quiet has ...
- 04:00 UTC SkyWatch and Hubble... Episode 236: Solar System Shake Up Was the solar system always the organized clockwork system envisioned by Isaac Newton? According to a computer model of the early epoch of the solar system, the answer is "no." ...
- 00:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Gravitational Lensing A gravitational lens is created when the light from a distant source is bent due to the existence of a massive object between the observer and source. The object could ...
- 00:00 UTC Hidden Universe HD Cooking Up Cometary Crystals (Showcase) The fading light of a flaring young star has shed light on a puzzle involving crystals and comets.
2 Sep 2009
- 16:00 UTC NASACast A Tour of the Cryosphere 2009 The cryosphere consists of those parts of the Earth's surface where water is found in solid form, including areas of snow, sea ice, glaciers, permafrost, ice sheets, and icebergs. This ...
- 05:12 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... STEREO-IMPACT: Our UN-quiet Sun STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) is a two-spacecraft NASA mission orbiting the Sun near Earth’s orbit to study the dynamic eruptions of mass from the outermost atmosphere of the Sun, ...
- 00:20 UTC The Jodcast September 2009 Anomalous. We're back from our summer break with an interview about 'anomalous emission' [13:43-27:39]. As always, Megan brings us the latest news [02:10-10:45] and Ian Morison tells us what we ...
1 Sep 2009
- 23:09 UTC NASA Goddard Shorts NASA | A Tour of the Cryosphere 2009 It has been said that the frozen parts of our planet, also known as the cryosphere, may be the proverbial 'canary in the coal mine' when it comes to climate ...
- 05:44 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Re-Discovering the Wonderment of the Night Sky I recently had a unique experience, perhaps even an epiphany. Over a long Labor Day weekend, my family and I traveled to the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania. While there, I ...
31 Aug 2009
- 19:26 UTC NASA Blueshift Blueshift - August 31, 2009: The Science of Pretty Pictur... Earlier this summer, Nobel Laureate Dr. John Mather told us that data are beautiful when they have meaning. Astronomical images communicate information about the way the universe works and how ...
- 10:00 UTC StarTalk Podcast StarTalk: The Science of Star Trek The Star Trek TV and movie series imagine a bright future for humans in space, one in which we explore alien worlds with the aid of advanced technology. Because the ...
- 07:00 UTC Are We Alone? What Were You Thinking? ENCORE Say what you mean. That’s difficult, if you don’t know what you’re thinking. But the neuromarketers do, and they’ll be happy to tell Madison Avenue what’s on your mind. ...
- 06:00 UTC Science@NASA podcas... Honey, I Blew Up the Tokamak NASA is planning a daring new mission to investigate the Universe's favorite way of making things explode. Unlocking the secrets of "magnetic reconnection" could help alleviate the energy crisis on ...
- 04:00 UTC The Planetary Socie... Saturn Update From Cassini Deputy Project Scientist Linda... We check in with Linda Spilker two or three times a year to learn the latest from Saturn, its moons and its rings. Bill Nye has kudos for team that ...
- 00:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Grote Reber: The First Radio Astronomer Destry Saul of Columbia University Astronomy The first detection of radio waves from space was made by Karl Jansky in 1932, but it was an amateur radio enthusiast in a ...
- 00:00 UTC Astronomy Cast Ep. 153: Dark Skies If you live in a city, it's possible that you've never seen the Milky Way with your own eyes. To really appreciate everything the night skies have to offer, you've ...
- 00:00 UTC Astronomy Cast Ep. 153: Dark Skies If you live in a city, it's possible that you've never seen the Milky Way with your own eyes. To really appreciate everything the night skies have to offer, you've ...
30 Aug 2009
- 00:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... The Environments of Jupiter's Moons The moons of Jupiter are home to some of the most fascinating extraterrestrial environments known to science. They're so fascinating, in fact, that this podcaster decided to set one of ...
29 Aug 2009
- 17:23 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Selenography - The Naming and Mapping of the Moon 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 ...
- 00:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... My Life with Charlie This podcast takes a look at the life and times of Charles Messier from his human foibles to his contributions to astronomy. The podcast also takes a look at how ...
28 Aug 2009
- 17:00 UTC NASA's Chandra X-ra... Cepheus B in 60 Seconds A new study from two of NASA's "Great Observatories" provides fresh insight into how some stars are born, along with a beautiful new image of a stellar nursery in our ...
- 16:00 UTC NASACast: This Week... NASA TV's This Week @NASA, August 28
- 16:00 UTC NASACast Audio NASA TV's This Week @NASA, August 28
- 16:00 UTC NASACast: Space Shu... Discovery Heads to Space Space shuttle Discovery and crew are on the way to the International Space Station.
- 15:00 UTC The Sky At Night Ma... BBC Sky at Night magazine - Episode Sixteen A video podcast from Sky At Night Magazine. This month the Sky At Night Magazine vodcast explores the Solar System’s largest planet, Jupiter. From its swirling storms and intriguing moons ...
- 00:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Saturn’s moon Enceladus – Past, Present, and Future Saturn’s moon Enceladus – Past, Present, and Future August 28th will be the 220th anniversary of William Herschel’s discovery of Saturn’s moon, Enceladus. Enceladus is rapidly becoming one of the ...
27 Aug 2009
- 16:00 UTC NASACast Free Spirit - A Second Rover Rolls in Test Area JPL engineers are using a second, lighter rover to test maneuvers to free Spirit.
- 15:00 UTC SkyWatch and Hubble... Show 235: Edvard Munch's Painting Researchers at Texas State University have found more interesting conclusions about Edvard Munch's paintings in Norway. Previously they had found that the vivid colors in Munch's painting, The Scream, could ...
- 09:39 UTC Cheap Astronomy 32. The ups and downs of space advocacy - 27 August 2009 Cheap Astronomy rants about space advocacy and tries to tell a joke to an alien.
- 07:00 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Free Spirit - A Second Rover Rolls in Test Area JPL engineers are using a second, lighter rover to test maneuvers to free Spirit. A second rover, closer to the weight of Spirit on Mars, is put through maneuvers to ...
- 04:00 UTC SkyWatch and Hubble... Episode 235: Edvard Munch's Painting Researchers at Texas State University have found more interesting conclusions about Edvard Munch's paintings in Norway. Previously they had found that the vivid colors in Munch's painting, The Scream, could ...
- 00:00 UTC 365 Days of Astrono... Need a Unique Birthday Gift? “Buy” a Birthday Star Patrick McQuillan and Ryan McQuillan Every year around Christmas time we are bombarded with advertisements suggesting you “name-a-star” for a loved one. If you purchase a “Name-a-Star” kit, your loved ...
26 Aug 2009
- 22:00 UTC As It Happened: Ho... Apollo 14: Mission to Fra Mauro Assuming the mission that Apollo 13 had not been able to complete, the crew of Apollo 14 explores Fra Mauro, as recorded in this 1971 documentary.
- 20:20 UTC Ask an Astronomer Where Is the Center of the Universe? Dr. Varoujan Gorjian explains the mind-boggling expansion of the Universe.