The 365 Days of Astronomy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgvFY2W8Prk

Streamed live June 17, 2016.

Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )
Special Guests: LIGO Team Members Kai Staats ( @kaistaats ) and Michael Landry ( @landry848 ).
Guests:
Paul M. Sutter ( http://www.pmsutter.com/ & @PaulMattSutter )

Morgan Rehnberg ( MorganRehnberg.com & @MorganRehnberg )

Kimberly Cartier ( http://KimberlyCartier.org & @AstroKimCartier )
"Kai Staats is a filmmaker, lecturer and writer working in science outreach. He is currently completing his MSc thesis for his research in machine learning applied to radio astronomy at the University of Cape Town and the Square Kilometre Array, South Africa. Staats was for ten years CEO of a Linux OS and HPC solutions provider whose systems were used to process images at NASA JPL, conduct sonar imaging on-board Navy submarines, and conduct bioinformatics research at DoE labs. In 2012 Staats engaged his passion for storytelling through film. His work includes sci-fi, human interest, wildlife conservation, and science outreach and education. ""LIGO Detection"" marks Staats' 3rd film for the gravitational wave observatory that in February announced detection of merging black holes.

Mike Landry is Detection Lead Scientist at LIGO Hanford Observatory (LHO), Washington State. He began working on LIGO in 2000 as a Caltech postdoc at LHO, and has remained there since. Mike has worked on a variety of aspects of the experiment, including commissioning, calibration, and searches for gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars. From 2010 to 2015, he led the installation of Advanced LIGO at Hanford. Prior to working on LIGO, he received his Ph.D. in particle and nuclear physics from the University of Manitoba, for studies in strange hadronic physics at the Brookhaven National Laboratory's AGS accelerator."

Their stories this week:
- A "Tatooine" planet is found in the habitable zone!

- 80% of Americans can't see the Milky Way anymore!

- Earth's new mini-me Moon!

- Fire in Space!!!

- 8 space telescopes renewed by NASA!

- Too many hot Jupiters in M67?

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Host: Mike Simmons, founder & President of Astronomers Without Borders.

Special Guests: Lora Bleacher, NASA's Solar System Exploration Division's Education and Public Outreach Lead, and Andrea Jones, an Education Specialist with the Planetary Science Institute, Education & Communications Lead for the LRO program, NASA's SSERVI RIS4E & FINESSE teams, and is based out of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. She is also the Director of the InOMN, the International Observe the Moon Night.

Lora is also currently acting as the Assistant Director of Science for Education in GSFC's Sciences and Exploration Directorate.  She shares the excitement of GSFC's planetary science research and missions with educators, students, and the public through authentic experiences, professional development, and opportunities to interact with GSFC's subject matter experts. A planetary scientist by training, Bleacher enjoys communicating about the practice of science and NASA STEM careers with the audiences she reaches. She is also dedicated to enabling scientists and engineers to effectively engage with learners of all ages.

DREAM = Dynamic Response of the Environments at Asteroids, the Moon and moons of Mars.

Streamed live on Apr 26, 2015

Come celebrate science (and help us fund and do science) during our 36-hour Hangoutathon. During this event, we invite you to race to map the worlds; Mercury, the Moon, Mars (yes, we’ll have Mars!), and cold distant Vesta. While you do science, we’ll take you on a tour around the world as we follow the terminator to Global Star Party events taking place around the world. We’ll also be joined by a myriad of guests.

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Streamed live on Mar 16, 2015

Title: Choose Your Own Adventure: Multiplicity of Planets Among the Smallest Stars.
Abstract: The Solar System furnishes the most familiar planetary architecture: many planets, orbiting nearly coplanar to one another. However, the most common planetary systems in the Milky Way orbit much smaller M dwarf stars, and these may present a very different blueprint. The Kepler data set has furnished more than 100 exoplanets orbiting stars half the mass of the sun and smaller. Half of these planets reside in systems with at least one additional planet. I investigate the proposition of self-similarity in this sample: whether a single architecture explains the multi-planet yield of Kepler. In fact, the data much prefer a model with two distinct modes of planet formation around M dwarfs, which occur in roughly equal measure. One mode is one very similar to the Solar System in terms of multiplicity and coplanarity, and the other is very dissimilar. I discuss whether stellar properties are predictive of one final architecture over the other, and describe implications in the search for life. Ultimately, the deluge of forthcoming exoplanet discoveries will require cheap observables to prioritize precious followup resources, and I'll describe how to leverage planet multiplicity to maximize science return.

Two Astronomers Named Sarah: http://www.astrobetter.com/blog/2014/07/23/two-astronomers-named-sarah-survive-academia-with-this-one-simple-trick/

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

What is the so-called Great Attractor? What’s the Zone of Avoidance, and is it scary? What makes galaxies move in the first place? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!

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Music by Jason Grady and Nick Bain.

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Streamed live Jun 17, 2016.

Join +Fraser Cain and +Pamela Gay for a live episode of Astronomy Cast. We'll record our 30-minute show, and then stay tuned for them to answer questions!
In all fields of science, sometimes more is learned when you fail at what you're trying to do than when you succeed. So what new science discoveries have failed expectations given us in astronomy?

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Summary of content:  Talks in preparation for the transit of Mercury and a look at this fascinating world.

In this Awesome Astronomy podcast extra episode we bring you the key speakers from this spring’s AstroCamp in the Brecon Beacon dark sky reserve. As the Transit of Mercury was the main feature of this spring’s camp, we were delighted to welcome (and now share with you) speakers with detailed knowledge of planetary transits:

- London astronomer and professional gemologist, Eric Emms, hosts many public solar and lunar observing events (the next of which will be in London’s Regent’s Park on June 23rd) and steers Central London’s Astronomical Society as a committee member of the Baker Street Irregular astronomers.

Eric takes us on a voyage to Mercury to show us why this is far from the dull dry world that many may think.

This is part 2 of 2.

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It takes nine months for a human baby to grow, 22-months for a much larger baby elephant to grow... but how long does it take to grow a planet? It turns out, it takes much less time than we thought.

Previously, it was believed to take tens of millions of years for a planet to form. But baby planets have just been discovered growing around a young star that is estimated to be only one million years old!

The original scientific paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.01378

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Streamed live Jun 10, 2016.

Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )
Special Guest:
NASA Astrobiologist Dr. Chris McKay ( @MarsRovers & marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov ) organized an August 2014 workshop to discuss the future of a permanent moon base, and the ultimate goal of establishing a human settlement on Mars. The resultant nine paper have been recently published in a special issue of the journal New Space.
Guests:
Paul M. Sutter ( http://www.pmsutter.com/ & @PaulMattSutter )

Morgan Rehnberg ( MorganRehnberg.com & @MorganRehnberg )

Dave Dickinson ( http://astroguyz.com/ & @Astroguyz )
Their stories this week:
- LISA Pathfinder Exceeds Expectations

- Watching a Black Hole Eat – Live!

- Inflatable ISS module inflates

- Hunting Lunar Letters
- Falcon 9 relaunch target slips to Sept/Oct
We’ve had an abundance of news stories for the past few months, and not enough time to get to them all. So we are now using a tool called Trello to submit and vote on stories we would like to see covered each week, and then Fraser will be selecting the stories from there. Here is the link to the Trello WSH page (http://bit.ly/WSHVote), which you can see without logging in. If you’d like to vote, just create a login and help us decide what to cover!
We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Friday at 12:00 pm Pacific / 3:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Google+, Universe Today, or the Universe Today YouTube page.
You can also join in the discussion between episodes over at our Weekly Space Hangout Crew group in G+!

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Summary of content:  Talks in preparation for the transit of Mercury and a look at this fascinating world.

In this Awesome Astronomy podcast extra episode we bring you the key speakers from this spring’s AstroCamp in the Brecon Beacon dark sky reserve. As the Transit of Mercury was the main feature of this spring’s camp, we were delighted to welcome (and now share with you) speakers with detailed knowledge of planetary transits:

- Dr. Rebekah Higgitt lectures history at the University of Kent and former curator at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.  Rebekah tells us about the science goals of observing transits, foreign wars, treacherous seas and national rivalries that conspired to prevent observations and the successes and mishaps that befell many astronomers keen to use this method to measure the size of the solar system.

This is part 1 of 2.

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We at 365 Days of Astronomy would like to apologize for the low quality audio in today's program. It was recorded with the on-camera mic of a video camera and has a very high "noise floor" and may be hard to understand. In this episode, "TelescopeMan" Joe Lalumina records Dennis Webb's presentation on the Arp Peculiar Galaxies; at the June 2011 meeting of the Texas Astronomical Society of Dallas, TX.

Mr. Webb is a NASA engineer and observer with more than 25 years of experience exploring the night sky. If the name is familiar to deep sky fans, it might be because he & Jeff Kanipe also teamed up to produce the Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies: A Chronicle and Observer’s Guide in 2006.

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