The 365 Days of Astronomy

From Aug 13, 2016.

Description: On August 21st, 2017, the United States will experience a total solar eclipse on a path crossing the country from Oregon to South Carolina. This eclipse presents a rare opportunity to study the Sun’s inner corona. The Citizen Continental-American Telescopic Eclipse Experiment (Citizen CATE) will station 60 telescopes across the country to capture a continuous, uninterrupted movie of the Sun’s corona during totality. Four Research Experience For Undergraduates (REU) students have spent the summer at the National Solar Observatory in Tucson analyzing date from telescope tests done in Indonesia during the March 9th, 2016 total solar eclipse in Indonesia and preparing for the 2017 total solar eclipse. This podcast explores the Citizen CATE Experiment and lets you learn how to get involved in this exciting citizen science project.

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Hosted by Steve Nerlich.

Nicolaus Copernicus is commonly acknowledged for establishing the heliocentric model of the solar system – and indeed the general principle that the Earth is not only not the centre of the Universe, but that it does not occupy any kind of central or privileged position. There’s no doubt Copernicus was a polymath and a jolly-clever fellow, but did it all really start with him?

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Over several years, astronomers using the Chandra X-Ray Space Observatory have noticed mysterious flares of X-ray light coming from Sgr A*.

Not only that, but the flashes are also seen in the infrared by the ESO's VLT at Chile's Paranal Observatory.

Now, astronomers think that these flares of light may be caused by Sgr A* gobbling up asteroids, just like the streak of light that we see in the night sky when meteors burn up.

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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 July.

July is here and the summer solstice is just behind us, meaning we’re on the glide slope to every lengthening nights. So the team’s here to pick their highlights for this month’s skies; starting with the planets on offer to observers and imagers:

Ralph – Saturn shows off its moons and favourably tilted rings

Jeni – Mercury is low in the sky but nicely placed to observe this July

Paul – Comets C/2015 er61 Panstarrs and C/2015 V2 Johnson

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

Ralph – The Eagle Nebula in the constellation Serpens

Jeni –  Colourful binary star Albireo in Cygnus

Paul – Messier 8, The Lagoon Nebula in Sagittarius

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

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

Do black holes exist, or are they merely theoretical constructs? What’s the evidence? And what about the singularity, surely that doesn’t happen, right? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!

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From March 5, 2007.

This week we continue the story of galaxy formation, learning how groups of galaxies come together to form the biggest structures around – galaxy superclusters. And when you look at the Universe at this scale, environment is everything.

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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:

- Rose Matheny is at it again! She discovered C2016 T1 Matheny & C2016 T2 Matheny! They're both comets from the farthest reaches of the Oort Cloud!

- Ekaterina Smyrnova used data from the Rosetta spacecraft to create various art and musical projects based on Comet 67P.

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The hot nights of July will get us out there in shorts and t-shirts, but later at night or earlier in the morning to witness some close encounters between the Moon and our planets:

Saturn – Look SE after sunset and find the bright light above and between Scorpius and Sagittarius. It will move toward the South, then the West, setting around 4am.

Jupiter – After sunset, look SW about a halfway up the sky and find the brightest point of light in that area.  It’ll move toward the West and set around 12:30am. You could also find Jupiter by finding the Big Dipper’s handle, following that arc to Arcturus, then speeding on to Spica, and finding brighter Jupiter to the right of Spica.

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Streamed live on Jun 23, 2017.

Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )
Special Guests: Marcel Popescu (from Observatoire de Paris) & Albert Falke (from Airbus) of the NEOShield-2 team ( @NEOShieldTeam ), here to celebrate Asteroid Day 2017, slated for June 30th!

Regular Guests:

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

This week's stories:

- A dead galaxy found by Hubble.

- LISA is 'On'!

- NASA releases a huge catalog of planets. 4,034 is the new total!

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Hosted by Jason Lewin. In this last episode Jason tells us about American Paper Optics' partnership with Bill Nye & The Planetary Society. He also tells us about APO's partnership with St. Jude's Children's Hospital.

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