The 365 Days of Astronomy

Paul Hill, Ralph Wilkins and Jenifer Millard host. Damien Phillips and John Wildridge produce.

Summary of content:

The Interview: This month Cardiff University’s Professor Mark Hannam tells us more about the recent observation of colliding neutron stars and this window into a new realm of astronomy.

Q&A: Listeners’ questions via email, Facebook & Twitter take us on a journey into the astronomy issues that have always plagued our understanding or stretched our credulity. This month we’re tackling a question about the Drake Equation:

“It strikes me that the Drake equation sets the probability of life at either (1) pretty close to zero - in which case surely we’d be worth a visit. OR (2) very numerous - in which case there’s every chance alien life might be driving past on their annual holiday. Or somewhere in between!

I think I’m saying that, yes overall I agree with the saying “seeing is believing”, but at the same time I don’t take not seeing as proof of non existence. I’ve never seen a Polar Bear (you don’t in Leeds) but I’m pretty sure they are out there.”

John Levett in Leeds, UK.

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Episode 11 of the Urban Astronomer Podcast features an interview with Jen Millard, from the Awesome Astronomy podcast.  Jen was in South Africa earlier this year, trying out a whole new way of studying exoplanets that I'd never heard of before.  In this episode, we discuss her observations, and broader astronomy interests.  But in case you're worried about too much high-level technical science talk, don't worry.  She was able to simplify it and explain it in a way that I could understand, live in the interview, so I'm sure you'll do just fine!

Allen Versfeld is an amateur astronomer, an IT professional, a podcaster, a father of five beautiful kids and a barely competent chess player. He is also the director of the Astrophotography Section of the Astronomical Society of South Africa, where he coordinates and promotes the activities of people who are far better photographers than him.

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Streamed live on Nov 7, 2017.

Electromagnetic radiation, also known as "light", is pretty handy for astronomers. They can use it to directly and indirectly observe stars, nebulae, planets and more! But as you probably know, light can act like a wave, creating interference patterns that teach us even more about the Universe.

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Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( @Nmcanopus ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006.

Today's 2 topics:

- The company called Planet has launched a fleet of tiny so-called Dove Satellites that can do Earth observations continuously for corporate clients.

- Carson Fuls has discovered his first comet! C2017 D1 (Fuls) is a part of the Jupiter family and was discovered by Carson at Mt. Lemmon Observatory.

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Originally from May 14, 2016.

Rob Sparks' guest today is Dr. Joan Najita. Dr. Joan Najita studies star and planet formation at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, Arizona.

Rob Sparks is a science education specialist in the Education and Public Outreach (EPO) group at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) and works on the Galileoscope project (www.galileoscope.org), providing design, dissemination and professional development. He blogs at halfastro.wordpress.com.

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Streamed live on Nov 8, 2017.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bl4ClWR8R0

Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )

Regular Guests:

Dr. Paul Matt Sutter ( http://www.pmsutter.com/ & @PaulMattSutter )

Dr. Morgan Rehnberg ( http://cosmicchatter.org/ & @MorganRehnberg )

This week's stories:

- Hunting for galaxies in the young Universe.

- "X-Raying" the Great Pyramid with Cosmic Rays.

- The possibility that Enceladus has had liquid oceans for billions of years.

- We release the Sutter Skeptical Kraken onto quark fusion!!!

- Stephen Hawking said more cray-cray stuff!

- Should we ditch Daylight Saving Time? (Yes)

- Astro Touring cruise.

- Chart Your World: https://chartyourworld.org/

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Neutron stars find each other, promptly blow up, the new importance of gravitational wave astronomy, being ready for luck, and of course listener questions!

Hosted by Dr. Paul M. Sutter, astrophysicist at The Ohio State University, Chief Scientist at COSI Science Center, and the one and only Agent to the Stars

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Paul Hill, Ralph Wilkins and Jenifer Millard host. Damien Phillips and John Wildridge produce.

Summary of content: 

The Discussion: Britain shows that it won’t just roll over and let America take the lead in intimidating academic freedom and Jen recounts her gravitational waves research conference in Brighton in October.

The News: Rounding up the space and astronomy news this month we have:

- Astronomers make the 1st observation of a neutron star collision.

- Astronomers discover a missing chunk of the universe.

- 3D videos of aurora that you can see at http://www.iap.fr/aurora3d/

- Tabby's Star has been figured out!

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Why is it tough to become a scientific researcher? What are some of the barriers in the field? Are there any other options? I have a PhD - now what? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!

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Music by Jason Grady and Nick Bain. Thanks to WCBE Radio for hosting the recording session, Greg Mobius for producing, and Cathy Rinella for editing.

Hosted by Paul M. Sutter, astrophysicist at The Ohio State University, Chief Scientist at COSI Science Center, and the one and only Agent to the Stars http://www.pmsutter.com

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBux8L76ldg

Streamed live on Nov 1, 2017.

Astronomers this week announced that they had discovered an asteroid or comet (A/2017 U1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/2017_U1 ) on a trajectory that brought it from outside the solar system. Is this the first case of an object from deep space and what can we learn from this discovery?

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