The 365 Days of Astronomy

Hosted today by Janet.

We have been taking various things into space with us. Aspergillus nidulans and other fungi might be necessary for space travel for the secondary metabolites they produce.

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What happens during a galaxy merger event? Is dark matter involved? How do we use simulations to learn about these processes that last hundreds of millions of years?  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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Recorded April 14, 2017.

Last week we talked about how the smallest creatures behave in space, the insects and the spiders, and now we move up in size a little to small animals, like mice. What missions have they flown on, and how does microgravity affect their biology?

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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:

- Arctic sea ice is shrinking dramatically and the first half of 2016 was the hottest on record. Earth is 2.4°F warmer than it was in the late 1800s. The effects will be felt in the agriculture, forestry and fishing industries.

- NASA's Dawn spacecraft has visited both Vesta and Ceres. It may be that ice volcanoes on Ceres have buried all the large craters there. There is good evidence for a liquid ocean beneath Ceres's crust.

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Black holes are known for their destructive behavior – like the ability to rip apart stars and planets, and swallow them whole. 

Ok, suck them through the straw of their accretion disk. There, that's a better metaphor.

But black holes are actually valuable members of our cosmic society, and they give a lot of energy back to the Universe.

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Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )
No Special Guest this week! Just lots of space news!

Regular Guests:

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

This week's stories:

- Black hole is ejected from a galaxy collision. How?

- FRBs ("Furbees" according to Paul) are proved to be not from Earth.

- SpaceX relaunch of used booster! And landing too!

- Does SpaceX put financial pressure on other space agencies with this reuse?

- How much would a space elevator cost & what can it lift into space?

- Would the Falcon Heavy be able to lift larger loads than anyone else?

- What about high altitude balloons to lift things to space?

- What is the largest telescope that actually has an eyepiece?

- What about sky hooks?

- When will men inhabit the Moon?

- How small can a rocket be and still make it into orbit?

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Hosted on Facebook Live by Anderw Fazekis, Communications Manager for Astronomers Without Borders. Global Astronomy Month is April, and Andrew talks about:

- The online Messier Marathon, already past as it happened on April 4th.

- The "Walking on the Moon" event, was on April 5th, so it's over too...

- Art & Science Collaboration Podcast on April 7th (this would still be downloadable) about space art!

- "Jupiter Watch" back on April 7th, where AWB encourages all of us to take binoculars of a telescope and look at Jupiter as it reaches opposition.

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Alan Versfeld hosts.

In this episode, I play a recording of one of my public lectures on astrophotography.  I was speaking to a local chapter of Mensa, the High IQ Society, who kindly made their recording available to me for use in this podcast.

Brief bio of the podcaster: Allen is an amateur astronomer, an IT professional, a podcaster, a father of five beautiful kids and a barely competent chess player. He is also the director of the Astrophotography Section of the Astronomical Society of South Africa, where he coordinates and promotes the activities of people who are far better photographers than him.

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

The Discussion: Paul and Jen packed out the Star Stage at this year’s Big Bang Fair in Birmingham as Sirius Astronomy ran experiments to explain how rockets and space suits work and how space capsules protect astronauts from the heat of re-entry. Jen updates us on her astronomy research trip to South Africa next month and Ralph reviews the latest space-based sci-fi thriller, Life.

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

A schoolboy who spotted an error in NASA data

Are the Van Allen radiation belts weaker than always thought?

Was Earth’s atmosphere like Titan’s 2.4 billion years ago?

Using the sun as a gravitational lens

NASA’s heading for Mars & evidence of an ancient Mars tsunami

The Interview: This month we have a couple of interviews with the children taking part in science challenges at the Big Bang Fair and clips of Paul & Jen creating fire hazards and projectiles around an undefended audience…

Hat of Woo: Following your comments by email and online, we’re bringing back the vile and rancid Hat of Woo this month. And we’re back with a festering sore of a conspiracy theory in the form of Immanuel Velikovsky’s laws of physics defying Worlds in Collision ‘theory’.

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Trigger warning: creepy-crawlies in space...!

We've talked about animals traveling to space in the past, but it's time to take another look, with many other creatures taking the trip to the void. Today we're going to talk about those spineless insects and arachnids and those tough-as-nails water bears!

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