The 365 Days of Astronomy

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Astronomers discovered tiny little dust grains and molecules inside a supernova remnant or SNR a few months ago. For the first time they found HCO+, the formyl cation and SO, sulfur monoxide, in the inner parts of an SNR. They'd detected other molecules before, but this was the first time for these particular ones.

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Andy Poniros hosts. Andy's guest is Dr. Mike Reynolds of Florida State College. They talk about the upcoming total solar eclipse. They discuss where to see it, how to see it and, most importantly, WHY to see it!

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Summary of content:

In this podcast extra, Jeni recalls her most recent research trip at the Japanese Infrared Survey Facility (IRSF) situated outside Sutherland in South Africa. This research trip continues Jeni’s endeavours to collect exoplanet transit data.

In this episode we cover:

• The IRSF observatory
• The life of a research astronomer
• The heartbeat of professional astronomy equipment
• Future research for Jen

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Bio: A podcast beamed direct from an underground bunker on Mars to promote science, space and astronomy (and enslave Earth if all goes well).

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From Dec 25, 2006.

We see the Universe in visible light with our photon detecting eyes. We can feel infrared heat with our photon detecting hands, and we get sunburns with our ultraviolet photon detecting skin (ouch). But there’s a whole spectrum of photons out there, from radio waves to gamma rays that astronomers use to understand the Universe. It’s time to see the whole picture.

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Why did Mars loose its atmosphere? And how? Mars has an atmosphere. Unlike the earth, its atmosphere is thin. In fact it is too thin to easily support life as we know it. The extremely thin air on Mars is 100 times thinner than Earth’s, and can also become very dusty. Giant dust storms can blanket the entire planet and last for months.  Almost 95% of Mars's atmosphere is carbon dioxide. While Nitrogen is only 2.7% and oxygen only 0.13%. 

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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:

- From 2005 to 2013 the Catalina Sky Survey team led the world in NEO discovery. Meanwhile PanSTARRS was gearing up to compete & then pulled ahead in the friendly race. Then in 2016 a new camera at CSS and the Catalina team pulled ahead again!

- The CSS team spotted 2008 TC3 before it entered our planet's atmosphere. It was harmless, but there might be bigger rocks that are much more deadly. NASA & FEMA are preparing plans for evacuation of cities should one be threatened. It's only a matter of time and it's best to be prepared.

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For centuries, Javanese people have known Orion as Waluku or the Plough.

Now don't get confused here. In England the constellation Ursa Major is called the plough. But this plough is Orion instead.

This story is related to the agriculture life of Javanese people. So when Waluku appears in the eastern sky at sunset, it means that the rainy season is beginning. You see, Waluku is used to determine when to plant rice.

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As clouds of cosmic gas shrink, they grow denser and hotter. When the temperature at the core reaches a scorching 10 million degrees Centigrade, the clump officially flares into life as a bright new star.

But not all collapsed clouds are massive enough to manage to reach the extreme temperatures needed to be born as a star. Those that don’t are known as failed stars, or ‘Brown Dwarfs’.

Brown dwarves are half way between gas giant planets, like Jupiter and Saturn, and stars. They have from 13 to 75 times the mass of Jupiter.

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In 1978 Ralph Carruth accepted a position at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Advanced Concepts Group conducting research in electric propulsion, particularly ion thrusters. He led advances in measurement of thruster charge-exchange plasmas and their interaction with materials, systems and particularly high voltage spacecraft systems. After almost 2.5 years he moved to NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) and worked on electric propulsion and the effects of the space environment and spacecraft induced environments on spacecraft materials and systems. Accepting positions of increasing responsibility, he became a member of the Senior Executive Service in 2002. He was Manager of the Materials and Processes Laboratory from 2004 until being named Manager of Test Laboratory at MSFC in 2011. He has had significant involvement in such programs as Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory, Tethered Satellite System, Shuttle-Mir, Space Shuttle, International Space Station, and Space Launch System (SLS).

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