The 365 Days of Astronomy

Hosted by Avivah Yamani.

Once upon a time… in Ayodhya, an ancient city of India, lived King Trayyaruna. He is the ruler of Ayodhya and Rama’s ancestor. Rama is the seventh avatar of the god Vishnu, one of his most popular incarnations.

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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 asteroid (16) Psyche is likely composed of approximately 95% iron & 5% nickel like many meteorites. A study by Driss Takir, Vishnu Reddy and others, shows there appears to be a coating of water ice or hydroxyl on the surface! A mission may go to Psyche in 2020, and arrive in 2026.

- Dr. Alfred McEwen of the LPL thinks there may well be large reservoirs of water in lava tubes on Mars. The remaining geothermal energy could also make the liquid water mineral rich and a good place for life to form.

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http://www.unawe.org/kids/unawe1116/

There are monsters lurking in space.

OK, not monsters like in the movies. Black Holes. Anything that gets too close to a Black Hole is pulled to it with such strong gravity that eventually it has no chance of escape.

The monster will gobble it up!

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Hi, this is Janet for Cheap Astronomy, www.cheapastro.com. This is SISS, Science on the ISS – and today’s episode is Synthetic muscles. Something we’ve learned from doing a podcast about science on the ISS is that, in order to capture a representative mix of all the experiments going on over our heads, about one in four episodes have to be about robotics – and yes, it’s that time again. Humanoid robots from science fiction are generally metallic – think Robbie the Robot or Hymie. Not only are they metal, but their muscles joints and tendons, are mostly pulleys, levers and cables. Similar principles also apply to fictional prosthetic appendages, think Jaime Sommers or Luke Skywalker.

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

In this podcast extra episode we present our full length interview with test pilot, astronaut and lunar module pilot on Apollo 16, General Charlie Duke.

Drawing on this unique set of experiences, we asked Charlie:

What surprised you or what weren't you expecting to see on the moon?

How did having a rover change the way you could explore the moon?

How much fun was the lunar rover?

Which was most exciting, being capcom on the 1st moon landing or walking on the moon on Apollo 16?

Is the proposed 2032 launch window for a human Mars mission achievable?

Did you see any colour other than grey on the moon?

Are there any features on Earth you can see from the moon?

Were you able to see any star fields during the Apollo 16 mission?

Then we turned the interview over to listeners' questions:

@BrewsterNorth asked, what do you think of the commercial plans for lunar exploration?

Gavin Price (@pillarscreatio) asked, how important is the moon as a staging post for  Mars? 

David Blanchflower (@Davidbflower) asked, would you return to the moon now? 

@Openmind asked, did your attitude towards humanity and our planet change for having gone to the moon?

And the now regular ‘Goodfellow Question’ (from @samcornwell): What's the most expensive thing you've ever broken? 

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Pamela and Fraser talk about solar eclipse basics at their Solar Eclipse Escape event in Saint Louis on August 19th. What to do, and (perhaps more importantly) what NOT to do is covered!

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Tomorrow is the "Great American Eclipse" and you should be excited! If can make it to totality, you are in for a treat! The next 2 total eclipses are both in South America on July 2nd, 2019 and Dec 14, 2020.

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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:

- 2017 may be a better than 2016 for comet viewing. Comet 41P Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak put on a show last April. Catalina teammate Jess Johnson discovered Comet C2015 V2 Johnson. It was around in June but binoculars were needed to see it.

- Richard Kowalski of Mt. Lemmon discovered 2016 WM48, a centaur. Part asteroid and part comet. In May it started to show cometary traits as was re-designated as a comet.

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Avivah Yamani hosts.

This is a myth from the Batak Toba Culture of North Sumatera, based on the oral tradition about the Moon's resident and also about the origin of humans and the universe.

In the very beginning, there was nothing. Up in a place far away which couldn’t be seen or imagined, sat the Creator Debata ‘Mula Jadi Na Bolon’. At first, there was nothing under the Creator’s chair; only a vacuum covered by wide oceans and the netherworld.  Everything was black and silent. 

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http://www.unawe.org/kids/unawe1130/

To see the Universe in all its glory, astronomers have to get creative. They combine multiple photos taken by different telescopes to make one colorful picture.

For example, in a particular beautiful picture of a star-forming region, the Chandra X-ray Space Telescope only captured part of the image. That part is 10 million degrees Celsius, which means that area is pouring out X-rays! Which is exactly what Chandra is built to see.

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