The 365 Days of Astronomy

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Streamed live March 3, 2017.

Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )

Special Guest: Dr. Alan Stern ( @AlanStern / @NewHorizons2015 ), is the Principal Investigator on the New Horizons mission. He will be joining us today to update everyone on what we now know about Pluto now that all of the New Horizons data have been received.

Regular Guests:

Dave Dickinson ( http://astroguyz.com/ & @Astroguyz )

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

This week's stories:

- Eclipse MegaMovie https://eclipsemega.movie/

- Interesting data from ALMA explains spirals around a star!

- SpaceX plans to go around the Moon!

- LUX-Zeplin (LZ): the next generation dark matter detector.

- The Moon occulted Aldebaran.

- Kimberly Cartier defends her PhD on May 9th! W00t!

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Using the Gaia satellite launched by the ESA, we’re finally able to see our lmc & SMC galactic neighbors in fabulous detail. We’ve found something very exciting — the two galaxies appear to be connected by a cosmic bridge.

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

Summary of content: 

The Discussion: Jeni’s been teaching the teachers of Wales how to include astronomy in their classroom exercises as part of the school curriculum. Ralph takes us on a historical tour of the King’s Observatory in Richmond which was the original Prime Meridian before it found its home in Greenwich. While Paul and Jen have a date this month at the Big Bang Fair in Birmingham.

The News:

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

- Hubble spies a comet breaking up around a distant white dwarf star

- A very special exoplanet discovery

- The Event Horizon Telescope takes aim

- Isolated extremophiles on Earth help with our search for alien life

- Is NASA accelerating its manned spaceflight program?

The Interview: This month we welcome back the European Space Agency’s project scientist on the Rosetta mission to Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko, Matt Taylor to discuss the end of the mission, the data gathered, the discovery of Philae and what’s next for ESA.

Q&A: Listeners’ questions via email, Facebook & Twitter take us on a journey into the astronomy issues that have always plagued our understanding or stretched our credulity. This month we’re tackling a question about the Allais Effect which claims to have observed strange happenings during eclipses.

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What has New Horizons taught us about Pluto so far? What’s going on under the ice? Why does the “heart” of Pluto still beat? 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 on Feb 27, 2017.

So you want to travel the world but you don't have a lot of money? No problem. Your continent is drifting across the surface of the Earth right now. In a few million years you'll reach "a" destination...

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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:

- Some scientists are concerned that we should not contact extraterrestrials if we find them. It might be possible to mask a transit of Earth from an extraterrestrial planet that would see one. The same system could be used as a signal beacon to say "Hi!" instead.

- The Curiosity rover has amassed a 2 year Martian weather dataset. The temperatures swing wildly from day to night and summer to winter.

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Events:

4th – Occultation of Aldebaran – Almost all of the U.S. will be able to watch a very bright star DISAPPEAR behind the Moon!  As the Moon slowly marches across the constellations, sometimes it passes in front of bright stars that we can see disappear and reappear, and on the night of the 4th the Moon will pass in front of Aldebaran in Taurus.

12th – Daylight Savings Time Begins at 2am

14th – Close Encounter – Moon, Jupiter, Spica – Look E after 10:00pm or SW before 6:00am.  On the 14th the Moon, Jupiter, and Spica will make a nice triangle in the sky, with Jupiter to the right of the Moon and Spica. 

20th – Close Encounter – Moon, Saturn – Look SE after 3am and before sunrise (7am).  Saturn will be the very bright point 2˚ below the waning crescent Moon on the 20th. 

20th – Spring Equinox - Astronomically the first day of Spring, even though meteorologically Spring starts in the beginning of March.  Here’s some more info.

29th – 30th – Close Encounter – Moon, Mercury, Mars – Sunset is right around 7:30pm.  On the 29th, if you have a clear view of the western horizon, you should be able to catch Mercury and the Moon about 15˚ above the horizon, 9˚ apart from each other.  Binoculars should help.  On the next night, the Moon will be higher, and about 7˚ to the left of Mars.

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Streamed live on Feb 23, 2017.

Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )
Special Guest: No special guest this week, just space news!

Regular guests:

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

Morgan Rehnberg ( http://cosmicchatter.org/ & @MorganRehnberg )

This week's stories:

- TRAPPIST-1, of cpurse...

- A bold new plan to recategorize Pluto.

- Problems with Juno's rocket.

- This week in SpaceX...

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Hosted by Steve Nerlich.

- What the heck is a 'standard orbit'?

- Department store telescopes...

- What about tractor beams?

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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 March.

Our highlights of this month’s skies with the planets on offer to observers and imagers:

- The moon, Mercury and Mars close together on the 29th

- The King of Planets returns to our skies

- 4 comets to observe with amateur telescopes or the naked eye .

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

Jen – The Owl Nebula in Ursa Major

Paul – The Virgo Supercluster and Markarian’s Chain of galaxies

Ralph – Messier 67 and the Beehive Cluster in Cancer

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

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