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:

- Dr. Karen J. Meech of the University of Hawaii has studied comet C/2014 S3 (Pan-STARRS) which appears to be a very old asteroid in a comet's orbit in the Oort cloud. It's one that hasn't been "baked" by long exposure to the Sun.

- Dr. Adam Frank of the University of Rochester & Dr. Woodruff Sullivan of the University of Washington have published a paper ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.3851 ) addressing the odds of technologically capable alien life appearing in a given volume of space. They posit that it's possible that we are the first such species in a cube 1,000 LY on a side.

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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.

Feb 23, Mar 30, Apr 29, May 30 & Jun 29

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Streamed live Jan 20, 2017.

Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )
Special Guest: Universe Sandbox Developer Dan Dixon. Dan is the creator and director of Universe Sandbox ², an accessible space simulator application that merges real-time gravity, climate, collision, and physical interactions to reveal the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet.

Regular Guests: (Possibly)

Morgan Rehnberg ( http://www.morganrehnberg.com/ & @MorganRehnberg )

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

This week's stories:

- NASA's buying some Soyuz seats from Russia.

- Two new NASA missions are announced.

- Coating Ceres in interplanetary dust.

- Choosing JunoCam sites.

- Using geometry to explain a pulsar puzzle!

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A team from Penn State University, Italy and all over the world used the Chandra X-ray Space Observatory to study the cosmos by looking at a type of light called X-rays. X-rays reveal the very energetic and exotic objects in space, like colliding stars and black holes. A picture recently released by the Chandra Space Observatory team and studied by that team from Penn State shows us what you can see in a small part of the night sky, about 2/3 the size of the full Moon, if you look at the X-rays coming from it.

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From Astronomy Cast episode 436's aftershow we have 11 minutes of cheesy goodness! Enjoy!

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This podcast celebrates the 13 year anniversary of the landing of Opportunity on Mars.  I still remember the night she landed vividly. After launch in July 0f 2003, the big night finally came. I was standing at the planetarium’s console, watching the control room at the Jet Propulsion Lab in California, eating peanuts, and listening as the landing milestones were called out: “parachute deployed”, “airbags inflated”, “we’re bouncing around on Mars!”

http://www.robeson.k12.nc.us/Domain/47

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Streamed live on Jan 20, 2017.

Human beings are bad at so many things. But we're particularly terrible at understanding probability in any rational way. We underestimate, overestimate and generally mess up probability. We're gonna try and fix it today, but we will surely fail.

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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:

- Carson Fuls discovered 2016 HD3, which will make 53 close approaches to Earth in the next 100 years.

- Voyager 1 took the famous "Pale blue dot" photo over 25 years ago. New telescopes will enable us to look for pale blue dots around other stars! A spectrum that includes traces of oxygen would be even better, of course.

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From 2010.

The first thing you notice in reviewing the literature about the solar cycle is that the math doesn't work. Here in 2010 we are just a year into cycle number 24 and each cycle has a duration of around 11 years - and isn't the Sun like 5 billion years old?

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Streamed live Jan 13, 2017.

Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )
Special Guest: There is no special guest this week. It's all news this time!

Regular Guests:

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

C.C. Petersen ( http://thespacewriter.com/wp/ / @AstroUniverse )

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

This week's stories:

- Tabby's Star (Alien megastructure) update. 3 new possibilities:

   1. Something internal inside the star is fluctuating randomly.

   2. A random stream of comets.

   3. The star has merged with something...

- Where next for Voyager?

- Looking for life's molecules in the Universe.

- How Breakthrough Starshot is helping the search for extrasolar planets.

- Earth (and the Moon) seen from Mars by the HiRise camera.

- A naked eye LRN, a luminous red nova, in 2022? A mergeburst?

   (What happens in Cygnus stays in Cygnus!)

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