The 365 Days of Astronomy

Paul Hill and Ralph Wilkins and Jen host. Damien Phillips and John Wildridge produce.

Summary of content: 

The Discussion: We welcome astrophysicist Jeni Millard from Cardiff University onto the show as our new co-presenter! We discuss the astronomy lessons, tuition and events we’ve been involved with over the past month and name drop about an Apollo moonwalker we might have interviewed…

The News: This month we take a look at NASA’s completed image collection of the Pluto system from the New Horizons spacecraft; ‘Water on Mars’ get the very first Awesome Astronomy award for Needing Another Sensational Announcement (the acronym is entirely coincidental); we take a look at Brian May’s handling of the estate of dearly cherished Patrick Moore; we despair at the media’s handling of ‘that’ news story about an alien megastucture that isn’t around a star with an unusual light curve; and finish up with the European and Russian coalition to explore habitability on the moon for human colonization.

The 5 Minute Concept: We continue our back-to-basics 5 Minute Concepts season with a discussion prompted by many listener questions about the value and use of filters for astronomical observation.

The Interview: This month we bring you our interview with Dr Kathy Thornton, recorded at Cosmiccon. Kathy is a veteran of four Space Shuttle missions and earns our eternal gratitude for fixing the Hubble Space Telescope after launch and giving it back its sight.

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 Ralph & Paul answer:

Organisation name: Awesome Astronomy

Organisation URL: www.awesomeastronomy.com

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Hosted by Robb Webb.

November has some close encounters similar to October, though the morning planets will be moving apart throughout the month.  Luckily, we now get more time to watch at night, given daylight saving time ends on the 2nd. 6th, 7th – Close Encounter – Moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter – Look toward the East after 4am on both these mornings where the Moon joins in the fun. On the morning of the 6th, the thin crescent Moon will be just 2˚ away from bright Jupiter, with Mars and Venus about 10˚ below. On the next morning, a thinner crescent Moon will be only a pinky’s width away from bright Venus, with Mars only 2 pinky’s widths up and to the left.

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Streamed live on Oct 30, 2015

Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )
Special Guest: Yoav Landsman ( @Masacritit ),WSH Crew Member; Principal System Engineer at SpaceIL; member of first GLXP to “hitch a ride.”
Guests:
Pamela Gay ( cosmoquest.org / @cosmoquestx / @starstryder )
Morgan Rehnberg ( cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg )
Paul Sutter ( pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter )
Dave Dickinson ( @astroguyz / www.astroguyz.com )
Alessondra Springmann ( @sondy )
Their articles:

- Meteor storm? Halloween fireballs?

- Halloween asteroid 2015 TB145

- Comet has alcohol… Go home 67P, you're drunk!

- Dawn & Ceres start to get cozy! White spots still a mystery.

- Cassini flew through the water plume.

- The tractor beam that ain't…

- Another moon photo from Pluto: Kerberos!

- Fraser gets married after the show! Congratulations!
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!
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 in G+!

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The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by NUCLIO. http://nuclio.org/

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Alice Enevoldsen hosts & Talks about the Leonid meteor shower, Nov 17/18.

Link:  www.alicesastroinfo.com

Description: Presented as a counterpart to Awesome Astronomy’s Northern Hemisphere monthly forecast [ http://www.awesomeastronomy.com ], Alice talks about what’s visible from the Southern Hemisphere. Focused at about 33°S, this forecast should work for anywhere between 25°S and 50°S

Useful Links:

Heavens-Above Starcharts for anywhere, anytime, no installation required:

http://www.heavens-above.com/main.aspx?lat=-33.8675&lng=151.207&loc=Sydney&alt=19&tz=AEST

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Stellarium Free planetarium-style program for your computer or tablet:

http://www.stellarium.org/

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7Timer - Clear sky charts (will it be clear enough for stargazing?). Input your location, then click on “ASTRO” in the pop-up:

http://ftp.astron.ac.cn/

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Monthly Sky Guides from Sydney Observatory:

http://www.sydneyobservatory.com.au/category/astronomy/monthly-sky-guides/

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Streamed live on Oct 28, 2015

Special guest Robert Sparks (National Optical Astronomy Observatory) joins us to talk about this years White House Star Party and how telescopes and star parties can create an addiction to astronomy!
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).

The White House Astronomy Night: https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/08/21/white-house-astronomy-night-celebration-science-technology-and-space

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Dr. Paul Matt Sutter hosts.

How do planets get their magnetic fields? What’s a dynamo? What do magnetic fields have in common with plate tectonics? I discuss these questions and more in today's Ask a Spaceman!

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 Oct 26, 2015

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 another episode today!
Ep. 390: Occam's Razor and the Problem with Probabilities
I’m not saying it’s aliens, but it’s aliens. Actually, it’s almost certainly not aliens, or a wormhole, or a multiverse. When scientists discover something unusual, they make guesses about what’s happening. But Occam’s Razor encourages us to consider the probabilities of different events before making any concrete predictions.

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

We get a quck overview of the delights that the November night sky has on display!

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Hosted by Shaila Akhter.

This month we talk to Shane Hengst, Outreach Manager for Physics Education, about the outreach efforts of the UNSW Physics Department. Shane has experience in organizing astronomical public events, designing & delivering scientific workshops and teaching mathematics & physics to high-school and first year university physics students. Shane's goal is to create innovative and effective ways of raising the awareness of science, in particular physics and astronomy, to the general public.

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Streamed live on Oct 23, 2015

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain)
Special Guest: Dr. Matthew Golombek, JPL Project Scientist for MER, and working on the NASA’s InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) Discovery Program mission.
Guests:
Morgan Rehnberg ( cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg )
Kimberly Cartier ( @AstroKimCartier )
Nicole Gugliucci ( cosmoquest.org / @noisyastronomer )
Paul Sutter ( pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter )
Ramin Skibba ( raminskibba.net / @raminskibba )
What’s new this week:
- Are there Mars quakes?

- How hard would it be to grow potatoes on Mars?

- If we find life on Mars, how can we tell if it's not Earth life?

- Does NASA have a ground-penetrating radar planned for Mars?

- How has the scientific perspective on Mars changed during our career?

- A planet orbiting a white dwarf breaks up!

- This week in Musk: Back to flight!

- More breakup news: An SMBH breaks up a star!

- Planet hunters find spiral arms in an accretion disk!

- Hubble uses gravitational lensing to study the earliest galaxies so far!

- New Horizons fires its thrusters to go to a new KBO.

- The NASA budget: Planetary science gets shafted again.

- Scott Kelly breaks the USA space endurance record!

- Most habitable planets have yet to be born.

- EXO Mars, a joint ESA/Roscosmos mission gets a launch date!
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!
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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The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by NUCLIO. http://nuclio.org/

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While you're at it, do support our Learning Space educator training program by going to this site:

https://www.patreon.com/LearningSpace

Please help us keep training the trainers! Learning Space is a weekly G+ Hangout on Air about topics in astronomy education, outreach and other ways to share science both in the school setting and outside it. We bring you interviews, hands-on demonstrations, lists of our favorite educational resources and more!