The 365 Days of Astronomy

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Streamed live Jan 05, 2017.

Once again science fiction, television and movies have totally let you down. They try to recreate what it might be like on an alien world, but surprise, surprise, they mostly get it wrong. That's because a truly alien world would be different is so many ways it would blow your mind! Today we'll help you figure out if you're on a movie set or if you've actually crash landed on an alien planet.

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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 lunar craters are new. Bright flashes of light occur when one is created. If it happens in the dark part of the Moon it's easily detectible from Earth. Dr. Mark Robinson of Arizona State Univ. used the LRO to find the new 62' crater tied to the March 2013 flash of light.

- Jupiter has a huge effect on the solar system. It ejects comets out of the system and also occasionally sends them our way. In 1770 a comet came close to Jupiter and was hurled in our direction. It missed Earth but later went back near Jupiter and was ejected from the solar system altogether that time. It's very possible that Earth wouldn't even be here if not for Jupiter's gravitational influence.

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Mercury – Best bet is to look SE after 6:30am but before sunrise, starting on the 10th.  Bring some binoculars, as it will only be about 10˚ above the horizon, and down and to the left of Saturn.

Venus – Look SW after sunset, and Venus will be about 30˚ above the horizon, very bright, and will set by 8:30pm. If you have a telescope, check out how it looks like a half moon.

Mars – Look SW after sunset and find Venus.  Mars will be the ruddy red object up and to the left of bright brilliant Venus.  In the beginning of the month Mars will be about a fist-width away (10˚) from Venus, and get to about 5˚ away by the end of the month.

Saturn – Look SE in the mornings before sunrise.  In the beginning of the month, it will only be about 10˚ above the horizon, but by the end of the month it will be about 20˚ above the horizon, much brighter than anything else around it.

Jupiter – Catch Jupiter in the eastern sky in the morning after 1:30am in the beginning of the month, and midnight at the end of the month.  Just look for the very bright object low in the East if you’re staying up late, or look to the South, halfway up the sky if you’re getting up early in the morning.

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Streamed live Dec 30, 2016.
Host: Fraser Cain ( http://www.universetoday.com/ / @fcain )
Special Guest: Nancy Atkinson ( http://www.nancyatkinson.com/blog/ / @Nancy_A )

This week's guest is Universe Today's own astrojournalist Nancy Atkinson, who is celebrating the release of her first book "Incredible Stories From Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos." Nancy will share some of the highlights of the book and the amazing experiences she had interviewing and researching the people and stories in the book!

Regular Guests:

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

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

This week's stories:

- People who we lost this year: Vera Rubin, Carrie Fisher, Piers Sellers, John Glenn.

- Anti hydrogen is the same as normal hydrogen, just with the opposite charge.

- Ceres had an ocean!

- Can there be antimatter galaxies out there that we could see?

Some stories from 2016:

- SpaceX had some successes, then failures.

- Juno arrives at Jupiter!

- Cassini is drawing to a close.

- LIGO discovers gravitational waves.

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A highly-charged and potentially polarizing issue. (See what I did there?)

- Dear Cheap Astronomy: How come Sun spots, prominences and flares only appear around the Sun’s equator?

- Dear Cheap Astronomy: Since mass attracts mass due to spacetime curvature – do charged particles attract (or repel) each other in a similar way?

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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 January.

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

Venus at greatest eastern elongation

Mars a few degrees from Venus

Jupiter in Virgo

Saturn & Mercury in the morning sky

Next up is the other solar system wonders of note in January:

The Quadrantids meteor shower peaking on 3-4th January with a ZHR of around 40

The largest asteroid, Vesta, at opposition passing through Cancer into Gemini

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

Jen – M33, spiral galaxy in the constellation Triangulum

Paul – NGC 2903, barred spiral galaxy in Leo

Ralph – Messier 35, open cluster in Gemini

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

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What’s the universe made of? How is this connected to its age? What’s the connection between dark matter and dark energy? 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 December 30, 2016.

Mars is a world of extremes. This unassuming red world is home to the largest and tallest volcanoes in the entire solar system. In fact, it's not even a close contest, with Olympus Mons rising 22 kilometers above the surrounding plains. More than twice as tall as Mount Everest. How did Mars get such big volcanoes? And how active is the planet today?

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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:

- Catalina Sky Survey team member Carson Fuls discovered 2016 GX221, which brightened hugely as it sped away from Earth.

- Caltech's Dr. Konstantin Batygin & Dr. Gregory Laughlin of UCSC published a paper in 2015 on their theory that Jupiter migrated inward to 1.5AU and then was pulled back out to 5AU by the baby planet Saturn. See https://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.06945.pdf which says "This scenario provides a natural explanation for why the inner Solar System bears scant resemblance to the ubiquitous multiplanet systems discovered by the Doppler velocity surveys and by the Kepler mission."

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Written and hosted by Avivah Yamani.

Each year, we have incredible observations, discoveries and events in astronomy that amaze us or become a great chance to build astronomy awareness. Today I'm going to share a few of my favourites.

Next year.. hmm starting tomorrow‚ 365 Days of Astronomy will be launching a ninth season. Totality 2017 will be our theme, as we celebrate the path of Totality marching across North America during the solar eclipse on August 21st, 2017.

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