September 20th, 2011
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Date: September 20, 2011 Title: New Looks at the Apollo Landing Sites Podcaster: Nancy Atkinson and Noah Petro Organization: NASA Lunar Science Institute Links:Goddard’s LRO website, NASA’s LRO website, Link to article on the new Apollo landing site images, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera website Description: Some of the latest images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter [...]
September 19th, 2011
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Date: September 19, 2011 Title: New Uses for Old Radio Dishes Podcasters: Colm Ryan and Niall Smith Link: http://www.bco.ie Description: How a science outreach centre in Ireland plans to convert a defunct 32 meter radio dish into a fully functioning radio telescope on a very limited budget. Bios: Colm Ryan is a science and space [...]
September 18th, 2011
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Date: September 18, 2011 Title: Encore: Mars and the Red Stars Podcaster: Tavi Greiner Links: A Sky Full of Stars – http://blog.askyfullofstars.com This podcast originally aired on Feb. 20, 2010: http://365daysofastronomy.org/2010/02/20/february-20th-mars-and-the-red-stars/ Description: Tavi Greiner offers a tour of the “red stars” surrounding Mars in the winter sky. Bio: Tavi Greiner is a co-creater of A [...]
September 17th, 2011
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Date: September 17, 2011 Title: Planet Host Stars Podcaster: Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) Links: Website(s) you want to have a link to: http://www.noao.edu http://twitter.com/#!/NOAONorth www.facebook.com/USNOAO Description: A discussion of planet host stars. Bio: Rob Sparks is a science education specialist in the EPO group at NOAO and works on the Galileoscope project (www.galileoscope.org), [...]
September 16th, 2011
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Date: September 16, 2011 Title: Can Habitable Planets Be Found Orbiting White Dwarf Stars?: Q & A with Eric Agol Podcaster: Chris Lindsay Links: For more information about Dr. Eric Agol, please see http://www.astro.washington.edu/users/agol/ For more information about the Bruce Gary PAWM (Pro-Am White Dwarf Monitoring) Project, please see http://brucegary.net/WDE/ For more information about the [...]
September 15th, 2011
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Date: September 15, 2011 Title: Encore: New World Ordered Podcaster: Daniel Raffaele Description: Daniel Raffaele talks about exoplanets: the discoveries so far, the potential for new discoveries, and what it is that we are actually looking for. New technologies, such as Infra-Red, allow us to see much smaller planets orbiting closer to their stars, so [...]
September 14th, 2011
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Date: September 14, 2011 Title: Measuring the Stars’ Light Podcasters: Thomas Hofstätter and Leon Dombroski Organization: :: The Hidden Space Project :: Links: http://hidden-space.at.tf Description: What are some of the brightest stars in the sky? Astronomers use a special term to talk about the brightness of stars: magnitude. If you have any questions, comments or [...]
September 13th, 2011
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Date: September 13, 2011 Title: September Observing Podcaster: The Telescope Man, a.k.a. Joe Lalumia Organization: Texas Astronomical Society of Dallas, TX. Links: www.texasastro.org Joe’s website: www.telescopeman.org Description: TelescopeMan gives his September observing list of 9 objects in the night sky. Bio: Joe Lalumia, also known as The Telescope Man, is the President of the Texas [...]
September 12th, 2011
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Date: September 12, 2011 Title: Astronomy Clubs: The How, What, and Why Podcaster: Daniel Herron Organization: Atlanta Astronomy Club Link: http://www.atlantaastronomy.org Description: What are Astronomy Clubs? Why join one? How to find one? Daniel will talk about what one can get from joining an Astronomy club, how to find a local club, different club activities, [...]
September 11th, 2011
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Date: September 11, 2011 Title: The Truth in Science and Astronomy Podcaster: Elmar von Agris, Castrop-Rauxel, Germany Description: This is an enjoyable philosophical 10-minute review about theories in science and especially astronomy. Can scientists prove that a theory is “true”? Maybe they can’t. And what is “The Truth” at all? Can we know “The Truth”? [...]
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
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