The 365 Days of Astronomy

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Published on Nov 26, 2015

PhD student Shaila Akhter gave a presentation about research at MacArthur Astronomical Society on Monday, 16 November 2015.
High-mass stars are some of the most important celestial objects because they are the chemical factories that manufacture elements and compounds, and hence shape the evolution of galaxies. However, the processes by which they form and how they shape their environment during their birth processes are not well understood. We are using NH3 (ammonia) data from the “The H2O Southern Galactic Plane Survey" (HOPS) to define the positions of clumps of gas within dense cores in the southern Galactic plane that are likely to form stars. We did a comparative study with different methods for finding these clumps and proposed the best method for this dataset. In this talk, I will discuss how we use ammonia as a tracer to find the high-mass stars and the method that we used for our recent discoveries.

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Streamed live on Nov 20, 2015

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain)
Special Guest: Miguel Drake-McLaughlin ( @twiguel ), Director of the new documentary, Sky Line, The Space Elevator Documentary.
Guests:
Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg )
Kimberly Cartier (@AstroKimCartier )
Their articles:

- Observing exoplanet atmospheres from the ground! With small telescopes!

- ULA is not bidding on an upcoming GPS sat. launch.

- SpaceX is planning on a December launch and possible barge landing.

- A "habitable" exoplanet isn't so habitable after all. Danged M dwarves!

- The most distant dwarf planet yet discovered.

- The Curiosity rover visits dunes on Mars!

- Can you see Saturn's rings with 7x25 binocs?

- Will New Horizons out perform the Voyagers and traverse the solar bow shock?

- Can we see an exo-CME interact with an exoplanet?

- Kimberly : aliens : : Tom Nathe : supernovae

- Are we under the influence of Jupiter's magnetic field?

- Miguel joins us to talk about "Sky Line", his space elevator documentary.

http://spaceelevator.net/

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Steve Nerlich hosts. and Barry Haworth narrates.

– Why do the gas giants have magnetic fields - aren’t they mostly hydrogen?

– Why does a gas giant like Jupiter produce so much radiation?

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Streamed live on Nov 18, 2015

This week we're joined by special guests Dr. Travis Rector and Kimberly Kowal Arcand ( @kimberlykowal ). We tried to include Meghan Watzke but technical difficulties prevented her from joining us. These trio will talk to us about how the colors of the universe are captured in images across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. 

The book's site: http://www.coloringtheuniverse.com/

Dr. Rector's site: http://aftar.uaa.alaska.edu/
Fall is a fabulous time to watch the stars be born. The evening sky brings a line up of the Orion Star Forming Region, the Pleiades Open Cluster, and the well dispersed Hyades Cluster in the constellation Taurus. Across these systems star formation is captured in all its stages and all it beauty. In this episode, we'll talk about these clusters and ways you can best explore star formation through cool activities.

Chandra "Hour of Code" links:

http://chandra.harvard.edu/blog/node/535

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D02c6t20nQE

Educators' Zone blog link:

http://cosmoquest.org/x/educatorszone/colors-from-nothing-your-data-for-free/

Kim & Megan's site: http://www.arcandwatzke.com/
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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Dr. Paul Matt Sutter hosts.

This week I chat with Dr. Laura Wolz of the University of Melbourne about the early universe, mapping galaxies, pretzels, and…ski snobbery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidopterist

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Special thanks to the University of Melbourne for hosting this recording session.

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With special guest Dr. Paul Matt Sutter.

While Pamela and Fraser were at Ohio State University for a symposium in October, they caught up with Paul M. Sutter from Astronomical Observatory of Trieste, who is a visiting scholar at the OSU Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics. His specialty is cosmic voids. Paul also hosts the podcast “Ask a Spaceman”: http://www.askaspaceman.com/

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If you stand in a very dark spot on a moonless night, you might see a faint fuzzy glow stretching all the way across the sky, with a glowing milky-white bulge in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. This is our Galaxy, our home, the Milky Way.

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Dr. Paul Matt Sutter hosts.

It’s a super-special episode, featuring a discussion with me, my “Space in your Face” co-hosts Wayne Schlingman and Anna Niereenberg, and Laura Aurenschield from the Columbus Dispatch about our thoughts on The Martian! The recording quality for this episode, however, isn't up to our usual standards due to the fact that it was recorded in a noisy cafe with one omni-directional mic. So please bear with us and enjoy the conversation!

Follow all the show updates at askaspaceman.com, and help support the show at patreon.com/pmsutter! 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 on Nov 13, 2015

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain)
Special Guest: Daniel Stern, Project Scientist on NuSTAR.
Guests:
Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg )
Alessondra Springmann (@sondy)
Kimberly Cartier (@AstroKimCartier )
Their articles:
- Pluto results from DPS. Specifically its smaller moons. Everything's wrong...

- Comet 67P got lighter in color as it approached the Sun.

- Asteroids rotate oddly due to the YORP effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarkovsky%E2%80%93O%27Keefe%E2%80%93Radzievskii%E2%80%93Paddack_effect

- A new mathematical definition of planet is proposed to aid in exoplanet categorization.

- Solutions to the sexual harassment problem have been put forward at DPS.

- Possible ice volcanoes on Pluto.

- Meteor streams from comet Enke hit Mercury.

- Saturn's co-orbital moons Epimetheus & Janus have gravitational interactions that cause them to swap orbits every 4 years, causing a wave to sweep through the rings.
What’s new this week:
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: 

Paul Hill introduces us to Jennifer Millard (4th year Astrophysics student at Cardiff Univ.) who gave a talk at AstroCamp. Have a listen!

During this spring’s AstroCamp event, hosted by the Awesome Astronomy podcast team, our new presenter, Jeni Millard, gave another of her inspiring talks. We were treated to a history of the much neglected Aboriginal dark sky folklore as we got tour of some of the most interesting objects in the southern hemisphere’s sky.

Then we head off into the world of professional astronomy at the Australian Astronomical Observatory as we find out how Jen helped with the science that will enable the Huntsman Eye to investigate faint structures of galaxies using arrays of off-the-shelf Canon camera lenses and sensors.

http://www.awesomeastronomy.com

Jeni's Huntsman video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06ZzfceM2vM

Huntsman on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HuntsmanEye/?fref=ts

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