August 31st, 2011
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Date: August 31, 2011 Title: Observing With Webb in September 2011 Podcaster: Rob Webb Link: mrwebb.podbean.com Description: This podcast discusses the events, planets, and constellations that can be seen in the night sky during the month of September, hosted by Rob Webb, Physics teacher at Pequea Valley High School. Bio: Rob Webb is a physics, [...]
August 30th, 2011
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Date: August 30, 2011 Title: Encore: The Magnetosphere Podcaster: Terry and Stephen Whelan Link: This podcast originally aired on May 11, 2009: http://365daysofastronomy.org/2009/05/11/may-11th-the-magnetosphere/ Description: This is a short non mathematical introduction to some important elements of space plasma physics. Stephen plays the role of a confused student to allow a pedagogical dialog to progress. Bio: [...]
August 29th, 2011
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Date: August 29, 2011 Title: Light – Wibbly, Wobbly Spacey-Timey Stuff Podcaster: Steve Nerlich Organization: Cheap Astronomy Links: www.cheapastro.com Description: This is the second of two podcasts on light – looking at the whole wavelength-versus-photon story and finding quantum mechanics. Bio: Cheap Astronomy offers an educational website where you’re only as cheap as the telescope [...]
August 28th, 2011
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Date: August 28, 2011 Title: Light – and a Bit of Dark Podcaster: Steve Nerlich Organization: Cheap Astronomy Link: www.cheapastro.com Description: This is the first of a series of two podcasts on light – about what it is and what it does. Bio: Cheap Astronomy offers an educational website which gives you more Big Bang [...]
August 27th, 2011
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Date: August 27, 2011 Title: Wonders from Class, Part 3 Podcaster: Diane Turnshek Organization: Carnegie Mellon University Links: http://www.cmu.edu/physics http://sff.net/people/diane Description: Just the good bits of astronomy class, Part 3. Bio: Diane Turnshek is an astronomer and a science fiction author with short fiction in Analog Magazine and elsewhere. She currently teaches classes in astronomy [...]
August 26th, 2011
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Date: August 26, 2011 Title: The Conditions Needed for the Inception of Life Podcaster: Liminality Link: http://www.binaryparticle.com/ Description: Billions of galaxies, sextillions of stars. The right chemicals, the right temperature, the right place… Earth. Today we’ll take a look at some of the many things that had to line up in the universe for us [...]
August 25th, 2011
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Date: August 25, 2011 Title: Henrietta Swan Leavitt Podcaster: Steve Arnold Description: This is a brief insight into the life of Henrietta Swan Leavitt a woman who seems to be forgotten in history but played a very important roll in measuring the universe. Bio: My name is Steve Arnold I’m an amateur astronomer from the [...]
August 24th, 2011
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Date: August 24, 2011 Title: Stars at a Glance Podcasters: Thomas Hofstätter and Leon Dombroski Organization: :: The Hidden Space Project :: Links: www.hidden-space.at.tf Description: Stars are like our Sun, but there are many variations of them. One thing is true, they all begin there life by the spark of nuclear fusion at their cores. [...]
August 23rd, 2011
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Date: August 23, 2011 Title: Detection of Visible Light from the Darkest World Podcaster: David Kipping Organization: CfA Links: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu My home page : http://www.davidkipping.co.uk The paper on which this podcast is based: http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.2297 Description: Two weeks ago, it was announced that Kepler had discovered the darkest exoplanet; a world which reflects less than 1% [...]
August 22nd, 2011
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Date: August 22, 2011 Title: Songs of Distant Earth Podcaster: Darren Landrum Link: http://eternalprototyper.com/ Description: This is a very science-light episode of 365 Days of Astronomy. Instead, I’m talking about my love of writing songs about space travel and manned orbital flight. I’m currently working on my first album, so I pick a few snippets [...]
The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is a project that will publish one podcast per day, for all 365 days of 2009, 2010, 2011 -- and now 2012. The podcast episodes are written, recorded and produced by people around
the world.
365 Days of Astronomy is a proud part of the International Year of Astronomy 2009.
