Universe Today

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guests: Pat Ammons is Director of Communications, U.S. Space & Rocket Center, to discuss SpaceCamp. Bob King is a UT contributor who will be joining us to promote his new book “Night Sky with the Naked Eye.” Guests: Kimberly Cartier ( KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier ) Morgan Rehnberg (MorganRehnberg.com / @MorganRehnberg) […]

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Dr. Matt Golombek, Senior Research Scientist at the JPL; Mars Exploration Rover Project Scientist; Mars Exploration Program Landing Site Scientist. Guests: Kimberly Cartier ( KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier ) Nicole Gugliucci (cosmoquest.org / @noisyastronomer) Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Their stories this week: The entire sky mapped via hydrogen […]

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Dr. Derrick Pitts, Chief Astronomer and Director of the Fels Planetarium at The Franklin Institute. He has been a NASA Solar System Ambassador since 2009 and serves as the Astrobiology Ambassador for the NASA/MIRS/UNCF Special Program Corporation’s Astrobiology Partnership Program. Additionally, Derrick was recently appointed to the outreach advisory […]

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: This week’s special guest is Dr. Voula Saridakis, a professor at Lake Forest College in Illinois specializing in the history of science and astronomy, who runsthe History of Astronomy on Twitter at @histastro Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (MorganRehnberg.com / @MorganRehnberg) Kimberly Cartier ( KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier ) Alessondra Springmann (sondy.com […]

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Guests: Tyler Finlay of the Sally Ride EarthKAM project Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (MorganRehnberg.com / @MorganRehnberg) Their stories this week: Two trillion galaxies? Obama reaffirms NASA’s Mars plan ExoMars arrives in the coming week CosmoQuest Survey for Citizen Scientists – how can we make citizen science more available? CosmoQuest Survey […]

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Paul Geithner, Deputy Project Manager – Technical for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Guests: Kimberly Cartier ( KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier ) Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Alessondra Springmann (sondy.com / @sondy) Their stories this week: MAVEN’s One Year Anniversary Giant plasma […]

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (MorganRehnberg.com / @MorganRehnberg) Dave Dickinson (www.astroguyz.com / @astroguyz) Kimberly Cartier ( KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier ) Yoav Landsman (@MasaCritit) Their stories this week: Elon’s Mars fantasy Hidden spiral arms in planet-forming disk First extragalactic gamma-ray binary China’s new 500 metre radio scope Rosetta’s last plunge We’ve had an abundance […]

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guests: Dr. Frank Timmes is an astrophysicist at Arizona State University and will be discussing online astronomy education and the Global Freshman Academy. His interests include the universe’s evolving composition and its implications for life in the universe. Dr. Timmes’ current area of research is nuclear astrophysics and the creation […]

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guests: This week’s guests will be the Universe Sandbox Developers Dan Dixon (Project Lead & Creator) and Jenn Seiler (Astrophysicist & Developer). Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (MorganRehnberg.com / @MorganRehnberg) Dave Dickinson (www.astroguyz.com / @astroguyz) Kimberly Cartier ( KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier ) Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Nicole Gugliucci (cosmoquest.org / […]

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Alessondra Springmann (@sondy) Morgan Rehnberg (MorganRehnberg.com / @MorganRehnberg) Fraser, Morgan and Sondy were all at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to watch the launch of the OSIRIS-REx Mission. Sondy and Morgan talked about the mission, answered questions about space and astronomy, Cassini. Just a sneak preview before the Weekly […]