The 365 Days of Astronomy

Andy Poniros hosts.

On Feb 4th, 2016, just a few hours before the 40th anniversary of this Apollo 14 Moon landing, astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell died at the age of 85 at a hospice near his home in Florida. A recipient of a PhD in astronomics from MIT, nominated for a Nobel Prize for Peace, and a Nobel Prize in Science, Dr. Mitchell openly discussed his interests in UFOs, the human psyche and preserving our natural resources.

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Streamed live on Feb 24, 2016

In this episode of Learning Space, Georgia and Pamela welcome special guest Larry Lebofsky from the Planetary Science Institute to come on and talk about his work to help teachers get their kids doing better projects and how he uses Science Fair to try and grow a love of science. https://sarsef.org/
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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In this very special episode, I discuss the importance of communicating science, a cool new project I’m working on ( http://www.songofthestars.org/ ), and how arts and science can be married to reveal the beauty of the universe.

To help fund the whole dance extravaganza, go to https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/songofthestars/song-of-the-stars and lay some coin on us! Please!

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Keep those questions about space, science, astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology coming to #AskASpaceman on Twitter@PaulMattSutter and Facebook/PaulMattSutter for COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF TIME AND SPACE! Music by Jason Grady and Nick Bain.

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Streamed live Mar 7, 2016.

Most of the time stars hang around for billions of years. But the Universe is a big place, and anything that can go wrong, inevitably does. Today we talk about what happens when these stars come together. The outcome is violent, and fortunately for you, also interesting.

Link to NASA article on "Nasty 1":

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/hubble-observes-one-of-a-kind-star-nicknamed-nasty

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Light is made up of all of the colors of the rainbow, but the colors scatter differently. Dust in the air scatters blue light more than red light. This means that the blue light is scattered away like some atmospheric Pachinko game. The longer wavelength red light penetrates the dust easily, travels through the atmosphere and makes a beautiful red sky at sunset.

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Description: Every year Gemini Observatory sponsors a program for local schools called Journey Through the Universe. In this podcast, Janice Harvey talks about the history of the program and where it is going in the future.

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

http://www.noao.edu

http://twitter.com/#!/NOAONorth 

http://www.gemini.edu/journey

Short bio:

Janice Harvey manages community outreach and education programs for Gemini Observatory in Hawaii.

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.

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Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain)

Special Guest: Dr. Michelle Thaller, ( @mlthaller ), the deputy director for Science Communication at NASA HQ, from 2009 to 2015 she was the Assistant Director for Science at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. From 1998 to 2009 she was a staff scientist at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, and later Manager of the Education and Public Outreach program for the Spitzer Space Telescope, at the California Institute of Technology.

Michelle's new podcast:

http://orbital.prx.org/category/podcast/

Michelle's website suggestions:

https://www.nasa.gov/

http://climate.nasa.gov/

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/

Guests:

Kimberly Cartier ( @AstroKimCartier )

Morgan Rehnberg ( MorganRehnberg.com / @MorganRehnberg )

Jolene Creighton ( fromquarkstoquasars.com / @futurism )

Nicole Gugliucci ( cosmoquest.org / @noisyastronomer )

Carolyn Collins Petersen ( thespacewriter.com / space.about.com / @spacewriter )

Their stories this week:

- Scott Kelly returns after a year in spaaaaace!

- Ancient history on Mars. The Tharsis Dome has slipped its disk?

- The best places to surf Titan... Or ski… Or fly...

- Back to Venus!

- Fast Radio Bursts - Now with more repeating! Or not?

- Super cool proposed NASA supersonic jet!

- Life in the ice! The Hovering Underwater Vehicle's implications for exo-life.

- ESA's International Village. ON THE MOON!

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What if one day we encounter aliens and they are our descendants?

Societies living off-Earth sounds like a concept from science fiction. We spend our lives pinned to the planet. In half a century of human space flight fewer than 600 people have traveled to low Earth orbit and just twelve have stood on the surface of another world. The cost and difficulty of extracting humans from gravity’s grip seem to have put dreams of space travel on ice.

Chris Impey is a Distinguished Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona. He most recent book, Beyond, covers the future of space travel and was published recently by Norton.

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

The Discussion: We bid a sad farewell to Apollo pioneer Edgar Mitchell who spent 33 hours on the lunar surface in 1971 on the Apollo 14 mission, celebrate the detection of gravitational waves and Paul regales us with his tales of clear skies for some long awaited eyepiece time.

The News: This month the news is dominated by the death of Apollo 14’s Edgar Mitchell. We bring you the highs of collecting moon rocks and the lows of a retirement spent promoting pseudoscience. We follow this up with more information on the detection by LIGO of the last confirmed prediction of Einstein’s General Relativity, gravitational waves, and what this means for the future of astronomy. And we finish off with the observation by the European Southern Observatory of a flying saucer shaped forming planetary system.

Woobusters: This month we don the tin foil hat of woo to debunk the Nibiru conspiracy theory. The planet predicted to crash into Earth and destroy all life without a shred of evidence to its name!

The Interview: We welcome Canadian Soyuz, Shuttle and Space Station astronaut Chris Hadfield into the chair this month to discuss:

The best and worst things about being in space

The most difficult thing to adjust to in space

What is it about test pilots that lends itself to becoming an astronaut

What was the best aircraft to fly

Is the space station a distraction from deep space missions

What’s the next space destination after the Space Station

What will Chris Hadfield do in retirement

Do you wish you’d been a musician

As a positive person, how do you face the bad things in life

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.

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Dr. Paul Matt Sutter hosts.

This week I chat with Alex Oliszewski of the Ohio State University about new kinds of planetarium shows, mixing science with art, and . . . drama club drama.

Special thanks to the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design ( http://accad.osu.edu/ ) for hosting this recording session.

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