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Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Mike Simmons, Founder and President of Astronomers without Borders (http://astronomerswithoutborders.org), will be joining us to discuss the 2016 Global Astronomy Month (GAM)! GAM is organized each April by Astronomers Without Borders and is the world’s largest global celebration of astronomy. Find out about the amazing GAM events going on […]

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Howard Trottier, a physics professor at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Trottier has recently devoted his time to the development of SFU’s unique Astronomy public outreach program. In the heart of SFU’s main campus is a “”Science Courtyard,”” a high-profile public space devoted to astronomy […]

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Kimberly Cartier (@AstroKimCartier ) Morgan Rehnberg (MorganRehnberg.com / @MorganRehnberg ) Dave Dickinson (www.astroguyz.com / @astroguyz) Their stories this week: Blue Origin, take three! (And a SpaceX launch today) Japanese X-ray satellite NASA Announces new planet hunting instrument Weekend Occultations US Navy Resumes Celestial Navigation Training What Hit Jupiter? We’ve had […]

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests:This week, we welcome Andrew Helton and Ryan Hamilton, member of the SOFIA Telescope Team. Andrew is the Instrument Scientist for the Faint Object infraRed CAmera for the SOFIA Telescope (FORCAST) dual channel, mid-infrared camera and spectrograph, one of the observatory’s facility-class science instruments. Ryan is the Instrument Scientist for the […]

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Paul, one of our WSH regular panelists, will be talking about Song of the Stars, a project he is leading that brings astronomy to life using modern dance. Guests: Dave Dickinson (www.astroguyz.com / @astroguyz) Kimberly Cartier (@AstroKimCartier ) Their stories this week: The Launch […]

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Dr. Sarah M. Milkovich, Planetary Geologist and current Science Systems Engineer at JPL working on Mars 2020 Rover. She has also worked on MRO (HiRISE), MSL, Cassini (UVIS), and Mars Phoenix Mission. Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (MorganRehnberg.com / @MorganRehnberg) Dave Dickinson (www.astroguyz.com / @astroguyz) Paul Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Alessondra Springmann […]

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Dr. Michelle Thaller, the assistant director for Science Communication 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 […]

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Kimberly Cartier (@AstroKimCartier ) Dave Dickinson (www.astroguyz.com / @astroguyz) Jolene Creighton (fromquarkstoquasars.com / @futurism) Nicole Gugliucci (cosmoquest.org / @noisyastronomer) Their stories this week: Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts Solve Missing Baryon Problem Search Narrows for Planet Nine WFIRST Unveiled Double Shadow Transit Season Begins Pulsar “Web” search for gravitational waves Milky […]

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Rebecca Roth, Imaging Coordinator & Social Media Specialist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center; responsible for sharing imagery with the media, as well as sharing those images with the public, mainly through social media such as Instagram and Flickr. Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (MorganRehnberg.com / @MorganRehnberg ) Kimberly Cartier (@AstroKimCartier […]

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Amy Shira Teitel, Author of “Breaking the Chains of Gravity” that was released in the States on January 12, 2016. Contributing writer for Vintage Space column on Popular Science, and host at Discovery News. Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg ) Jolene Creighton (fromquarkstoquasars.com / @futurism) Their stories this […]