365 Days of Astronomy

February 28th: The Universe in 15 Minutes

Date: February 28, 2010
Title: The Universe in 15 Minutes
Podcaster: TecnoCasters
Organization: TecnoCasters - http://www.tecnocasters.com/
Description: The TecnoCasters discuss several recent news items about astronomy and technology.
Bio: TecnoCasters is the best technology podcast in Spanish. Hosted by Juan D. Guevara, Pedro Riveroll, Lorena Galan and Raul Mitre, TecnoCasters offers a funny and friendly point of view about the gadgets and technology you’ll [...]

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February 27th: Ceres – Dwarf Planet or Very Big Asteroid?

Date: February 27, 2010
Title: Ceres - Dwarf Planet or Very Big Asteroid?
Podcaster: Steve Nerlich
Organization: Cheap Astronomy - www.cheapastro.com
Description: A podcast about an asteroid with an identity crisis.
Bio: Cheap Astronomy offers an educational website where you can’t put a price on space.
Today's sponsor: This episode of "365 Days of Astronomy" is sponsored by Barb Geigle, on behalf of the Berks County Amateur [...]

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February 26th: Playing Hide and Seek With a Binary Pulsar

Date: February 26, 2010
Title: Playing Hide and Seek With a Binary Pulsar
Podcaster: Sue Ann Heatherly
Organization: NRAO: http://www.gb.nrao.edu/
Description: Froney Crawford, astronomer at Franklin and Marshall College just finished an observing run on the Green Bank Telescope and joins us to talk about it-- his research studying an enigmatic pulsar in a binary system.
Bio: Sue Ann Heatherly is the Education Officer [...]

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February 25th: Where’s the Best Place for the Biggest Telescopes?

Date: February 25, 2010
Title: Where’s the Best Place for the Biggest Telescopes?
Podcaster: Rob Berthiaume
Links: www.yorkobservatory.com www.youdontfreezeinspace.com
Description: Scientists and engineers spend millions of dollars and many years deciding what kind of telescope to build and how to build it. With such an investment, they also put a lot of thought into where they put it. In today’s podcast, [...]

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February 24th: Sidewalk Astronomy

Date: February 24, 2010
Title: Sidewalk Astronomy
Podcaster: Jay Horowitz
Organization: Riverdale Astronomy: riverdaleastronomy.blogspot.com
Description: This podcast covers astronomy outreach and education - how best to share your love of the cosmos with your friends and the general public. It provides general guidelines for introducing others to your science and goes into detail on how to get started in sidewalk astronomy.
Bio: Jay Horowitz is [...]

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February 23rd: Where IS the Center of the Universe?

Date: February 23, 2010
Title: Where IS the Center of the Universe?
Podcaster: Rob Knop
Links: My home page: http://www.sonic.net/~rknop
MICA: http://www.mica-vw.org
MICA Public Events: http://www.mica-vw.org/wiki/index.php/MICA_Events
Description: A discussion of the center of the Universe.
Bio: Rob Knop obtained a PhD in Physics from Caltech in 1997. He then worked with the Supernova Cosmology Project and was part of the discovery [...]

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February 22nd: Jonathan McDowell Visits Thayer Academy

Date: February 22, 2010
Title: Jonathan McDowell Visits Thayer Academy
Podcaster: Jamie Formato
Organization: Thayer Academy, Braintree, Massachusetts. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, & Cahall Observatory: cahallobservatory.wordpress.com
Description: Chandra X-ray Center Astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell is interviewed by a high school senior from Thayer Academy in Braintree, Massachusetts. Jonathan describes what the Chandra X-ray Observatory is, how it works, and what his job as [...]

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February 21st: An Introduction to Active Galactic Nuclei

Date: February 21, 2010
Title: An Introduction to Active Galactic Nuclei
Podcaster: Olaf Davis & Renee Hlozek
Organization: Cosmic Web: www.cosmic-web.co.uk
Description: Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) are formed when enormous black holes consume material and spew out energy in jets many thousands of light-years long. This energy output, which can be up to a thousand times brighter than the galaxy itself, has [...]

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February 20th: Mars and the Red Stars

Date: February 20, 2010
Title: Mars and the Red Stars
Podcaster: Tavi Greiner
Organization: A Sky Full of Stars – http://blog.askyfullofstars.com
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 Sky Full of Stars, a co-host of the Deep Sky Divas, and an outreach director for Astronomy.FM. She is [...]

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February 19th: 4 Astronomers on Why They Do It

Date: February 19, 2010
Title: 4 Astronomers on Why They Do It
Podcaster: Sandy Antunes
Organization: Project Calliope LLC: ProjectCalliope.com
Scientific Blogging: http://scientificblogging.com/sky_day
Description: 4 randomly chosen astronomers at the AAS meeting explain why they became astronomers, then try to explain their research is just 30 seconds.
Bio: Dr. Alex "Sandy" Antunes is a scientist and science writer. He worked for 5 NASA missions as [...]

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February 28th: The Universe in 15 Minutes

February 27th: Ceres – Dwarf Planet or Very Big Asteroid?

February 26th: Playing Hide and Seek With a Binary Pulsar

February 25th: Where’s the Best Place for the Biggest Telescopes?

February 24th: Sidewalk Astronomy

February 23rd: Where IS the Center of the Universe?

February 22nd: Jonathan McDowell Visits Thayer Academy

February 21st: An Introduction to Active Galactic Nuclei

February 20th: Mars and the Red Stars

February 19th: 4 Astronomers on Why They Do It

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