The 365 Days of Astronomy

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Almost everyone is afraid of the dark at some point in their life. Creaking floorboards, rustling curtains or random bumps in the night can fill people with terror.

But we all know the boogeyman isn’t real, so are there any real monsters to be afraid of? Well, maybe not on Earth, but there are monsters hiding out in space — they’re called black holes.

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June is looking like a good month to get out and see three of our planetary gems (Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn) at great times in their orbits.  Get out your binoculars and your telescopes, it’s a planet hunting month.

PLANETS... Well, the ones visible with your naked eye

- Planets you can see around Sunset – Jupiter (SW), Mars & Saturn (SE→SW)

- Planets you can see throughout the night – Jupiter (SW→W), Mars & Saturn (SE→SW)

- Planets you can see in the Morning – Mercury (NE)

Mars & Saturn – Look southeast after sunset and bring a sky map of Scorpius and Libra.  Mars has separated itself from Saturn and Antares in the constellation Scorpius, and moved into Libra.

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Streamed live on May 27, 2016

Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )
Special Guest:
Dr. Seth Shostak ( http://radio.seti.org/ & @SethShostak ) is the Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute. He also heads up the International Academy of Astronautics’ SETI Permanent Committee. In addition, Seth is keen on outreach activities: interesting the public – and especially young people – in science in general, and astrobiology in particular. He’s co-authored a college textbook on astrobiology, and has written three trade books on SETI. In addition, he’s published more than 400 popular articles on science — including regular contributions to both the Huffington Post and Discover Magazine blogs — gives many dozens of talks annually, and is the host of the SETI Institute’s weekly science radio show, “Big Picture Science.”
Guests:
Paul M. Sutter ( http://www.pmsutter.com/ & @PaulMattSutter )
Kimberly Cartier ( http://KimberlyCartier.org & @AstroKimCartier )
Jolene Creighton ( http://futurism.com/? & @futurism )
Nicole Gugliucci ( http://noisyastronomer.com/ & @NoisyAstronomer )
Brian Koberlein ( https://briankoberlein.com/ & @BrianKoberlein )
Their stories this week:
- Update on NASA’s Juno Mission

- “Fresh” Lunar Craters

- Do Primordial Black Holes Solve Dark Matter?

- India Successfully Launches Tiny Reusable Space Shuttle

- MeerKAT First Images

- Europa’s ocean may have Earth-like chemical balance

- Faintest early-universe galaxy detected

- 30 KM Wide Asteroid Impacted Australia 3.4 Billion Years Ago
We’ve had an abundance of news stories for the past few months, and not enough time to get to them all. So we’ve started a new system. Instead of adding all of the stories to the spreadsheet each week, 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!
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Summary of content: What to look out, and up, for in June.

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

- Jupiter

- Mars

- Saturn

Next up is the meteor showers and we have quite a few daytime showers that can be spotted in the pre-dawn sky as well as some more usual showers in June:

- Arietids

- Zeta Perseids

- June Lyrids

- June Bootids

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

Ralph - M13 The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules

Paul - M8 The Lagoon Nebula

Jeni - M57 The Ring Nebula

And we finish this sky guide with June’s moon phases and planetary conjunctions.

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Join Ralph, Paul & Jeni for informative and fun astronomy programs telling you what to look out (and up) for every month as well as a main show dedicated to space and astronomy news. You can be guaranteed a passion for astronomy, simple explanations of complex and fundamental topics, space and science discussions, absorbing interviews with astronomers and astronauts who make the news and answers to listeners' space questions.

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Dr. Meg Rosenburg ( @trueanomalies & http://www.trueanomalies.com/ & http://www.megrosenburg.com/ ) talks about the science and history of impacts with the Society of Physics Students at the University of Central Arkansas.

Here are some materials to get started:

This is a short (2-minute) video I made, originally as part of my thesis defense, to introduce the impact process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM3yxyzJJ3I

Here's an introduction to impact cratering and crater morphology (shape characteristics) from the Lunar and Planetary Institute: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/exploration/education/hsResearch/crateringLab/lab/part1/background/

I'll be using some of these materials in the seminar

Over at CosmoQuest, the MoonMappers project enlists the public to help out with crater counts on the Moon: http://cosmoquest.org/?application=simply_craters

Everywhere we look in the solar system, from our own Moon to Mars to the icy satellites of the outer planets, there are surfaces covered in impact craters. Today, we understand these holes in the ground to be remnants of cosmic collisions, an extremely common (if rather violent) process, and impact is how we make sense of a whole host of observations. Cratered terrains provide a basis for understanding the timing of events on a planetary surface, and these events can even be correlated between planets. Analysis of the sizes of impact craters can also potentially tell us which population of objects caused them in the first place, which puts constraints on dynamical models of solar system formation.

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Joe Lalumina hosts. Richard Brown, an Astronomical League Master Observer, is the featured speaker for the March 2011 General Meeting of the Texas Astronomical Society of Dallas. Richard lectures about using binoculars for astronomical observing.

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Streamed live May 23, 2016.

The temperature of the Universe can vary a dramatic amount from the hot cores of stars to the vast cold emptiness of deep space. What's the temperature of the Universe now, and what will it be in the future?
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!

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In 2011 astronomers found a weird star called VFTS 102 that is about 25 times more massive than our Sun and is spinning more than 300 times faster. It's spinning so fast in fact that it's very close to the point at which it would be torn apart due to centrifugal forces.

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Streamed live on Apr 26, 2015

Our guest for this segment is Charles Black ( @charlesblack ) of Sen.com, talking about exoplanets, asteroids & space tourism.

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.

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Streamed live on May 20, 2016

Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )

Special Guests: Dr. Mike Brown ( @plutokiller ) is the Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of Planetary Astronomy at CalTech. Dr. Konstantin Batygin ( @kbatygin ) is Assistant Professor of Planetary Science at CalTech. They'll be here discussing their discovery of Planet 9 and what's been happening since that amazing announcement.
Guest:
Jolene Creighton ( http://futurism.com/? & @futurism )
The stories this week:

- SETI meeting in Puerto Rico: Humanoid aliens?

- Tsunamis on Mars!
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