The 365 Days of Astronomy

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From March 19, 2007.

Come on, admit it, you’ve had this question. If the Universe is expanding from the Big Bang, what is it expanding into? What’s outside the Universe? Ask any astronomer and you’ll get an unsatisfying answer. We give you the same unsatisfying answer, but really explain it, so your unsatisfaction doesn’t haunt you any more.

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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:

- Asteroid 878 Mildred was lost for 75 years and has now been found!

- The Catalina Sky Survey has a newly refurbished 40" robotic telescope that is only used for follow-up observations so that the venerable 30" & 60" can look for new targets.

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Black holes are the boogeymen of the Universe. They lurk in the dark, waiting for unsuspecting gas, planets and stars to stray too close. And when they do, they become the black hole’s dinner!

This sounds pretty wicked, so you might be surprised to learn that we’re talking about black holes this week because many have been spotted wearing shining halos!

Actually, halos are very common in space. Every galaxy is surrounded by a so-called halo made of old stars and a mysterious, invisible material called dark matter. The interesting thing about these newly discovered halos is that they are glowing.

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Published on Nov 12, 2016.

Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )
Special Guests:  Pat Ammons ( @PatAmmons1 ), Director of Communications, U.S. Space & Rocket Center, to discuss SpaceCamp; and Bob King ( @AstroBob_bk ), a UT contributor who will be joining us to promote his new book "Night Sky with the Naked Eye"

Regular Guests:

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

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

This week's stories:

- The U.S. election/Trump's space policies.

- Subaru's new exoplanet imager, CHARIS!

- Is NASA preparing to abandon Orion?

- An exotic pair or stellar remnants.

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Streamed live on Oct 26, 2016.

Join us as we talk with educator Roseann Burns and her students from Upper Darby High School (Drexel Hill, PA). They'll tell us about the real research they are bringing into their public school classroom.

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Hosted by science writer & TV director Ricardo García Soto ( http://www.astroblog.cl/ / @cuasar / astroetal.com ).

How to engage better with the public? Can astronomy be used as a tool for education? In this conversation with Dr. Pedro Russo, we talked about the importance of science communication, his story as the coordinator for the International year of astronomy, IYA2009, his work in the Universe Awareness program, science communications as a research field, how to work with celebrities to communicate astronomy, what is the International Astronomical Union, and of course, so much more.

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How do sunspots work? What do magnetic fields have to do with it? Who was Zeeman and why was his splitting so important? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!

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Streamed live on Nov 4, 2016.

Did you hear that Dark Energy doesn't exist any more? Neither does Dark Matter? It turns out that NASA recalculated the Zodiac and now you're an Ophiuchan! Science is hard enough, but communicating that science out to the public when there are publications hungry for traffic is even harder! Here's how to parse the click-bait science titles.

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Please help us keep training the trainers! Learning Space is a weekly G+ Hangout on Air about topics in astronomy education, outreach and other ways to share science both in the school setting and outside it. We bring you interviews, hands-on demonstrations, lists of our favorite educational resources and more!

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:

- Europa, Enceladus and other moons have salty oceans. These are very good places to look for extraterrestrial life.

- The Cassini orbiter at Saturn photographed plumes of water shooting out from Enceladus, proving that it had an ocean under its ice, like Jupiter's Europa.

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Description: Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson has a variety of day and night time programs available to visitors. In this podcast, Kitt Peak Visitor Center Director Bill Buckingham talks about what visitors can expect on Kitt Peak.

Website(s) you want to have a link to: www.noao.edu, https://www.noao.edu/kpvc/

Short bio: Rob Sparks is a science education specialist in the EPO group at NOAO and works on the Galileoscope project ( www.galileoscope.org ), providing design, dissemination and professional development.

He also pens a great blog at halfastro.wordpress.com.

Bill Buckingham is the director of the Kitt Peak Visitor Center.

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