The 365 Days of Astronomy

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:

- NASA's LUCY mission will launch in 2021 and will be the first spacecraft to visit Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.

- The 130 mile diameter asteroid Psyche appears to be the remnant of the nickel/iron core of a larger body. NASA's Psyche spacecraft will launch in 2023 and arrive in 2030.

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Welcome to Observing With Webb, where a high school astronomy teacher tells you what you’re looking at, why it’s so cool, and what you should check out later this month…at night.

13th – Close Encounter – Venus, Jupiter – Get out after 6am on the morning of the 13th and look ESE toward the horizon.  You’ll find VERY bright Venus about a quarter of a degree away from Jupiter, making this a great time to get both of them in a picture in a telescope, along with all four Galilean Moons.  But get out there as close to 6am as possible, as the Sun will rise at about 6:45, ruining your view even by 6:25.

17th – Leonid Meteor Shower – You might just catch a couple meteors coming from Leo, if you get out early in the morning and look at the whole sky in general, like other meteor showers.  However, this meteor shower is losing steam throughout the years, but still producing about 15 per hour.

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Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )
Special Guest: Zach Weinersmith, discuss their new book "SOONISH: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything."

Zach authors & illustrates the web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (https://smbc-comics.com/)

Dr. Kelly Weinersmith is Adjunct Faculty in the BioSciences Department at Rice University, where she studies parasites that manipulate the behavior of their hosts. www.Weinersmith.com

Regular Guests:

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

Dr. Kimberly Cartier ( http://KimberlyCartier.org & @AstroKimCartier )

This week's stories:

- Saudi Arabia invests in Virgin Galactic.

- Evidence of an ocean on Ceres.

- The White House's pick for NASA Administrator.

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Hunting for missing mass in the universe, making cheap, lightweight materials...IN SPACE, how the show connects to my podcast, and of course listener questions!

Produced by Greg Moebius at WCBE Radio Columbus.

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: What to look out, and up, for in November.

Ralph, Paul & Jen pick their highlights for this month’s skies; starting with the solar system objects on offer to observers and imagers:

- A last look at Saturn for 2017 in the early evening sky.

- A very impressive Jupiter/Venus conjunction on the 13th of November.

- The Taurid meteor showers peaking on the 5th and 21st November and the Leonids on the 18th November.

- Comet 2017 O1 ASASSN1 for binocular and telescope observers.

Next up, we take a deep sky pick from our list of favourites for this time of year:

Ralph – Messier 42, the Orion Nebula in the constellation Orion.

Jen – Messier 13, The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules.

Paul – NCG 404, Mirach’s Ghost in the constellation Andromeda.

And we finish this sky guide with November’s moon phases.

Nov 5/6 the Moon occults Aldebaran.

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Published on Nov 4, 2016.

Fraser Cain hosts. The speed of light gives us an amazing tool for studying the Universe. Because light only travels a mere 300,000 kilometers per second, when we see distant objects, we’re looking back in time.

You’re not seeing the Sun as it is today, you’re seeing an 8 minute old Sun. You’re seeing 642 year-old Betelgeuse. 2.5 million year-old Andromeda.

In fact, you can keep doing this, looking further out, and deeper into time. Since the Universe is expanding today, it was closer in the past.

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Streamed live Oct 27, 2017.

The Man in the Moon, the pyramids on Mars, every cloud ever… Humans have a tendency to pattern match when they're looking around the Universe. It's called pareidolia. What causes this behavior and how can we use this to debunk some hilarious conspiracy theories.

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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:

- DART is a projected asteroid deflection test mission. 65803 Didymos has a moon that will be the target of the test.

- Dr. Geoffrey Evatt of the University of Manchester is studying the transport of meteorites on and through Antarctic ice flows.

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On 17 August 2017, we detected gravitational waves for the sixth time. But for the first time, the event responsible for creating these waves was visible to telescopes, too! What’s more, the signal was like nothing that had ever been seen before. Yet the source was unmistakable.

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Streamed live on Oct 25, 2017.

Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )
Special Guest: Dr. John Charles, Chief of the International Science Office of NASA’s Human Research Program.

Regular Guests:

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

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

Dr. Kimberly Cartier ( http://KimberlyCartier.org & @AstroKimCartier )

This week's stories:

- How neutron star mergers brought us gold.

- More asteroid friends & fewer asteroid enemies.

- A ring around dwarf planet Haumea!

- The first interstellar comet, C/2017 U1 (PANSTARRS)

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