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:

- Light pollution not only costs us huge amounts of money, but it deprives everybody of the wonders of the night sky. The IDA can help. See http://www.darksky.org/

- The ESA's Rosetta spacecraft visited Comet 67P and found 16 types of organic molecules during the 2 years it was at the comet.

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When stars die, the materials the star has been fusing for millions of years, all the way up to iron, are melted back down into sub-atomic particles. Then they are remade in a process called explosive nucleosynthesis. More than remade, the elements higher than iron, up to uranium are assembled in a flash.

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Streamed live Jun 9, 2017.

Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )
Special Guest:

Dr. Jeffrey Forshaw ( http://www.hep.manchester.ac.uk/u/forshaw/ / @jrf1968 )

Regular Guests:

Sarah Marquart ( https://futurism.com/ / @SagaofSarah )

This week's stories:

- ALMA discovers the building blocks of life around other stars.

- The "Wow!" mystery signal has been finally identified. Spoiler alert: It's comets, not aliens...

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Paul Hill & Ralph Wilkins take a back seat today and Jenifer Millard, all by her lonesome, hosts. Damien Phillips and John Wildridge produce.

Interview: On the discovery of only humanity’s third black hole merger by the incredible Laser Interferometry Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO), Jeni’s speaks with Professor Patrick Sutton, Head of Cardiff University’s Gravitational Physics Group and member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration who develops new strategies to detect gravitational wave bursts and creates techniques for locating these sources on the sky for modeling and simulations.

In this interview Jeni asks Patrick about:

• The latest gravitational wave detection
• What we can know about these events and the objects that created them
• The strength and weakness of these signals

Also, The Announcement: For a physics deep dive into the analysis, the data and the modeling of the new black hole merger detected by LIGO this month, LIGO Governing Council member Professor Sathyaprakash (Sathya to his friends) delivers the first lecture on this discovery.

Return to the Interview: In this segment we return to Professor Patrick Sutton who tells Jen about:

• The possibilities for future gravitational wave detections
• The most expensive thing he’s ever broken
• And… personal grooming tips??

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Mike Simmons talks with Dr. Phil Plait, the "Bad Astronomer". They talk about science, science fiction, science outreach and about 10^6 other things!

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Welcome to the 6th episode of the Urban Astronomer Podcast. This is the second part of our interview with Chris Stewart, one of the names behind the Amateur Telescope Making class in Johannesburg, one of the organizers of the annual ScopeX telescope and astronomy expo, and director of the Astronomical Society of South Africa's Instrumentation section.

In this part, he talks about the pros and cons of different telescope designs, how to make them, how to select an eyepiece, and also offers solid advice for those who'd rather just buy a telescope.

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We have had a chance to do a bunch of pretty fun adventures. Honestly, I think the best is yet to come. We've got the eclipse trip coming up this year. I (Fraser) am doing a trip to Iceland with Dr. Paul Matt Sutter, and there's a really great response to that. Hopefully we can go out and do more of that kind of thing out in the world.

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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! This time she's discovered 4, count 'em 4 close approaching asteroids. Luckily they're small, from 15' to 60' in diameter.

- Human migrations in the distant past were helped by land bridges and corridors of plant life which were produced by small cyclic changes in the tilt of Earth's axis of rotation.

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Description: Black holes power the most luminous objects in the universe. Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are powered by supermassive black holes. In this podcast, Dr. Stephanie Juneau discusses recent research on obscured black holes.

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Short bio: Dr. Stephanie Juneau ( @StephaJuneau ) works on the NOAO data lab and active galactic nuclei research. You can read the press release about her recent findings at https://www.noao.edu/news/2017/pr1702.php

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Streamed live Jun 2, 2017.

Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )
Special Guest:

Mike Simmons is the President of Astronomer Without Borders. Mike is joining us today to discuss how AWB will be engaging the public and our schools both during and following the total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017.

Regular Guests:

Dr. Brian Koberlein ( https://briankoberlein.com/ / @BrianKoberlein )

Sarah Marquart ( https://futurism.com/ / @SagaofSarah )

This week's stories:

- LIGO makes a 3rd detection of gravitational waves!

- SpaceX launch coming up.

- LRO is hit by a micrometeorite!

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