The 365 Days of Astronomy

Hosted by Dr. Carrie Nugent of NASA's NEOWISE mission and the JPL Science Division.

Today's guest:

Dr. Mansi Kasliwal talks about the GROWTH project ( @GrowthPire ), which uses international teamwork to watch astronomical events around the clock. An individual observer is thwarted by sunrise, but together, an international team can continuously monitor supernovae, neutron stars, and asteroids over 24 hours.

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Streamed live on Feb 17, 2017.

There are regular volcanoes and then there are supervolcanoes. Massive calderas of hot magma of incomprehensible size. Bad news: These things explode randomly and catastrophically. Worse news: There's a bunch around the Earth.

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Description: Preparation for the annular solar eclipse in Patagonia, the southern part of Argentina and Chile, on February 26. Today boasts an eclipse of the Sun, but you have to go to the southern part of South America to see the Moon go entirely in front of the Sun.  The Moon is a little smaller than average today, so it doesn't completely block the Sun, leaving a ring--an "annulus"--of everyday sunlight.  Such an annular eclipse occurs somewhere in the world about every 18 months.

Maps are linked to my website http://eclipses.info. 

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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:

- The PanStarrs group discovered 185' diameter 2016 HO3, which co-orbits with Earth as we orbit around the Sun.

- Dr. Elisa Quintana of NASA Ames has run huge computer model simulations of planetary collisions in our solar system and exoplanetary systems.

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Streamed live on Feb 17, 2017.

Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )
Special Guest: No special guest this week, just space news! No, wait! We do have a special guest after all! It's is Samuel Mason, the Director of the Tesla Science Foundation, NJ Chapter. The mission of the Tesla Science Foundation is to establish and promote the recognition and awareness of Nikola Tesla's inventions, patents, theories, philosophies, lectures, and innovations.

Regular guests:

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

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

This week's stories:

- Are humans going back to space?

- When will the SLS be launching?

- Our special guest shows up!

- How do you fix the Big Bang's lithium problem?

- Congress is told that NASA's exploration plans aren't sustainable.

- Homegrown organic materials found on Ceres!

- Building a computer that can survive on Venus.

- Exomoons, exomoons, exomoons!

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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 makes a planet “Earth-like”?

We’ve now found over 3,500 planets around distant stars.

Though a great many of them are gas giants like Jupiter & Saturn, many of them have been described as rocky and “Earth-sized.” But that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re "Earth-like" at all!

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How (and when) did the rings of Saturn form? How are we to understand the complex systems of rings and gaps? How do the moons influence their shape? 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 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 Feb 13, 2017.

So we always want to talk about how we can make Mars more Earth-like, but the reality is that we're making Earth more Venus-like! We're Venusforming Earth. So what are the various factors we are impacting on a global scale and how can we fix them?

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Avivah Yamani hosts.

Why are stars and planets round? Are there any other shapes for the stars and planets?

Quick answer: all stars and planets are round. No other shape.

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