The 365 Days of Astronomy

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CLASP is a high-tech telescope with a 30cm or 11 inch diameter mirror. It was packed into a Black Brant IX sounding rocket and launched into space on September 3rd, 2015, from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The 1,270 pound payload flew to an altitude of 167 miles, or 268 kilometers.

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

The Discussion: Jeni’s returns from her South African research using the Infrared Survey Facility telescope, Paul calls time on the Principia Mission and we go through a couple of readers emails to discuss Caroline Herschel, the Woomera Test Range and Australian space funding. 

The News: Rounding up the space and astronomy news this month we have:

• Is there any evidence for other universes in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation?
• An update on Tabby's Star (It's NOT an alien megastructure).
• Are we already creating our own defense against Coronal Mass Ejections by chance? 
• A run through NASA's 2018 budget proposal

The Interview: This month we speak to former test pilot and astronaut - and one of only 6 remaining people to have walked on the moon - General Charlie Duke.

Practical Astronomy: The Hat of Woo takes a rest this month as we introduce an occasional look into areas of interest to the practical amateur astronomer with topics requested by you. This month we take a look at an essential piece of kit suggested by Sean Smith from Dublin: eyepieces.

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How is the bullet cluster the “smoking gun” for dark matter? Why aren’t alternate theories of gravity satisfactory? Could dark matter just be a bunch of black holes? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!

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Music by Jason Grady and Nick Bain. Thanks to WCBE Radio for hosting the recording session, Greg Mobius for producing, and Cathy Rinella for editing.

Hosted by Paul M. Sutter, astrophysicist at The Ohio State University, Chief Scientist at COSI Science Center, and the one and only Agent to the Stars (http://www.pmsutter.com).

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Streamed live Jun 2, 2017.

Summer's almost here, and for the northern hemisphere this means warm nights for observing. But what to observe? We're here with a list of events and targets for you to enjoy over the summer. Get your calendars handy and start organizing some events with your friends and then get out there!

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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:

- Lunar meteorites have been found in several places on Earth. Alex Gibbs & Richard Kowalski discovered a big one! 2016 RD34 is about 43 feet in diameter and it would be possible for our astronauts to reach it and get a sample.

- Rose Matheny and Carson Fuls discovered 2016 RN1 (about 700' diameter, which will make close approaches to Earth) and 2016 RT1 (450' diameter) and not a current threat, though that may change if Venus tugs it into a bad orbit.

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Welcome to Observing With Webb, where the armchair astronomer figures out what they’re looking at, why it’s so cool, and what they should check out next. 

Saturn – Rises around between 9pm and sunset in the SE, highest in the S around midnight, sets right around sunrise.  Best time of year to check it out.

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 2:30am in the beginning of the month and 1:30am at the end. 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.  Or look to the left of Leo.

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Streamed live on May 26, 2017.

Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )
Special Guest:
This week's guest is NAT GEO’s Stephen Petranek. He is the author of How We’ll Live on Mars (TED Books.) Stephen became a reluctant doomsayer when his earliest TED Talk (10 Ways the World Could End) racked up 1.5 million views. But Petranek is, in fact, an optimist who believes that humanity will escape its predicaments -- literally. Within a century, he predicts that humans will have established a city of 80,000 on Mars: and that not only is that plausible, but it’s also inevitable.

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

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

Dr. Nicole Gugliucci ( http://noisyastronomer.com/ & @NoisyAstronomer )

This week's stories:

- Boyajian's (Tabby's - @tsboyajian ) star in the headlines!

- Permanent ripples in spacetime from gravitational waves?

- The VLA reveals a new radio-bright object near the SMBH in Cygnus A.

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Summary of content:  What to look out, and up, for in June.

Jeni returns from astronomy research in South Africa so the gang’s back together to pick their highlights for this month’s skies; starting with the planets on offer to observers and imagers:

Ralph – Saturn reaches opposition this month and coincides with a nearby meteor shower

Jeni – Jupiter in prime viewing conditions with some lovely Galilean transits

Paul – We still have comet C/2015 V2 Johnson in the skies for a nice alternative distraction

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

Ralph – The Double Double binary Alpha Lyrae

Jeni – The Whirlpool Galaxy Messier 51

Paul – Globular Clusters Messiers 10 & 12 in Ophiuchus

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

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Jason Lewin, Director of Marketing for American Paper Optics ( http://www.eclipseglasses.com/ / @EclipseGuys ), talks about eclipse viewing safety. APO sells the red/blue type and other 3D glasses as well as solar viewing glasses. He talks with John Jerit, the company's CEO, founder & Owner.

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What’s invisible, 160 million times more massive than the Sun, and on the move?

A newly discovered runaway supermassive black hole!

While smaller black holes can be caught wandering between the stars, supermassive black holes are normally only found at the very center of galaxies.

Which is why a team astronomers conducted a systematic search to spot a supermassive black hole moving away from the center of its galaxy.

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