The 365 Days of Astronomy

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cosmos-book.github.io/how-many-planets/index.html

https://cosmoquest.org/

Have you heard the tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves? Well, our Sun has a collection of dwarfs, too — five dwarf planets. Their names are: Ceres, Eris, Makemake, Haumea and Pluto. I'm sure that we'll have 7 dwarves at some point just like Snow White.

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Streamed live on Apr 8, 2016

Mike Brown & Konstantin Batygin had to reschedule (but they will join us soon!) so we'll be covering the news for the week!

Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )
Guests:
Kimberly Cartier ( http://KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier )
Morgan Rehnberg ( http://cosmicchatter.org/ / @MorganRehnberg )
Dave Dickinson ( http://astroguyz.com/ / @Astroguyz )
Their stories this week:

- Something smacked into Jupiter! For science!!!

- Blue Origins launches, rinses & repeats!

- A new exoplanet search spectrograph: NEID.

- Q: What big questions are there that lowering launch costs can answer?

- Q: What are the chances of having an exosolar system aligned for transits?

- Q: In exo-transits, can you detect debris disks, exo-Kuiper belts etc.?

- This Week in Musk: Another launch to the ISS & barge landing!

- Japan's Venus orbiter Akatsuki, saved last year, reaches its final modified orbit.

- Japan's Hitomi X-ray observatory goes tumbling and may be permanently lost.

- The US Navy returns to celestial navigation as a precaution!

- ALMA studies TW Hydrae's debris disk & may have found evidence of a hab zone exoplanet.

- Q: What are you WSHers doing for the 2017 total solar eclipse?
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Avivah Yamani hosts.

Have you heard about planet X? The unknown planet in Solar System? Well, yes, it’s the object that people refer to in many doomsday hoaxes. But what is planet X?

Planet X is not a planet that will cause mass extinction.  This is more like a codename to an unknown object in the Solar System. If we go back in history, planet X is the ninth planet that was proposed by Percival Lowell to explain apparent anomalies in the orbits of the giant planets, particularly the orbit of Uranus and Neptune.

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Streamed live April 8, 2016.

This week Pamela & Georgia are joined by Mike Simmons, the Director of Astronomers Without Borders ( http://astronomerswithoutborders.org/ ). They discuss the 2016 Global Astronomy Month plans and events.
Learning Space is a Hangout on Air about topics in astronomy education, outreach, and other ways to share science. We bring you interviews, hands-on demonstrations, lists of our favorite resources,and more. Join your hosts Pamela Gay and Georgia Bracey (with Nicole Gugliucci in the archives) every other Wednesday. Learning Space is produced by CosmoQuest at the STEM Center @SIUE as part of the 365 Days of Astronomy project. This material is made possible and distributed free of charge thanks to donations by people like you. Check out our Patreon Campaign (https://www.patreon.com/LearningSpace) and subscribe to us on YouTube (http://bit.ly/CQLearningSpace).

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Hosted by Dr. Paul Matt Sutter. Today we talk with Dr. Jonathan A. Blazek, a postdoc fellow in the Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics at The Ohio State University. We discuss "Plan B for Blazek", odes to ancient deities and not neutrinos.

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Streamed live April 6, 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!
The Solar System is a spinny place. Everything’s turning turning. But if you look closely, there are some pretty strange spins going on. Today we talk about how everything started turning, and the factors that still “impact” them today.

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TelescopeMan records the January 2012 Beginner Astronomy Class, at the Russell Planetarium in Mesquite, Texas.

Robert Logue, a member of the Texas Astronomical Society of Dallas, lectures on "The Death of Stars".

www.telescopeman.org

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Astronomers have large data sets that contain many terabytes of data. Using these datasets on laptop computers is not possible. In this podcast, Dr. Knut Olson discusses a new approach that is being developed by NOAO to deal with large data sets. The NOAO Data Lab will let astronomers manipulate data on remote machines enabling new types of research.

Website(s) you want to have a link to:

http://www.noao.edu

http://twitter.com/#!/NOAONorth 

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 blogs  at halfastro.wordpress.com.

Knut Olson is an astronomer at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, Arizona.

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Paul Hill, Ralph Wilkins and Jenifer Millard host. Damien Phillips and John Wildridge produce.

Summary of content: 

The Discussion: This month Jeni has a PhD offer that’s getting us all excited, Paul’s been clocking up the miles to teach science and astronomy to schools and Ralph’s just excited because he’s got a new telescope. We also catch up with the lads from Project Helium Tears who had a new launch!

The News: We start the news with last month’s total solar eclipse seen from parts of Asia before explaining the research that suggests an ancient cataclysm caused Mars crust & mantle to shift. Then we discuss the launch of ESA’s Exomars part 1. And we finish with a round-up of the news from NASA’s Insight mission, the 1st analysis of the atmosphere of a super earth exoplanet atmosphere and the latest SpaceX attempt to bring down the cost of commercial spaceflight.

The Interview: For the interview this month we welcome Apollo 12 lunar module pilot and Skylab 2 commander Alan Bean. We discuss:

44 years of humans staying in Low Earth Orbit

Nearly missing out on walking on the moon due to lightning

Saving the Apollo 12 mission

The colorful crew of Apollo 12

Finding organic matter in lunar orbit

Competing with smarter astronauts – and not being Clint Eastwood!

A moonwalker’s impressions of the moon

The feeling of the moon’s surface underfoot

And the full hour long interview with Alan Bean will be released in May 2016.

Woobusters: Continuing our quest to debunk the myths and conspiracy theories that persist in every dark corner of the news and the internet. This month’s topic, picked at random from the Big Hat of Woo, is The Dead Cosmonauts conspiracy.

Q&A: Listeners’ questions via email, Facebook & Twitter take us on a journey into the astronomy issues that have always plagued our understanding or stretched our credulity. This month Jen honors the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s General Relativity with a beginner’s crash course, a bit of mythbusting and answers:

When will the Theory of General Relativity become Law? Brad Bell from Texas, United States

http://www.unawe.org/kids/unawe1149/

You’re probably wondering what on Earth is going on in the image in today's album artwork! Unlike many of the wonderful photos that we bring you in Space Scoop, this picture is a computer graphic drawn by an artist. But this picture wasn’t conjured up by the artist’s imagination.

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