Travelers in the Night Eps. 727 & 728: Dust Moons & Space Weather
Release Date: 05/05/2024
Last Minute Astronomer - June Episode
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I’m Rob Webb, your Last Minute Astronomer, bringing astronomy to normies and nerds, with little time to spare. This month, I’m recording on the go! I’m traveling and recording on a different laptop than normal, with a microphone from 2012, and less than 6 hours of sleep each night this week. I’ll treat this as a…learning opportunity… As usual, we’ll start by talking about where the naked eye planets are this month, move on to the lunar phases, and finish up with a calendar of events, so you can plan ahead better than me. June brings us the quote “Parade of...
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EVSN - Carrington 2024
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From May 22, 2024. In this episode, we’re taking a closer look at Sunspot complex 3664 and the beautiful chaos that it’s been creating. And because we’re in a planetary science kind of mood, we’re also looking at stories related to observing weather on alien worlds, the history of Mars Climate, and even how solar storms might affect that particular Red Planet. We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to...
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H’ad Astra Historia - Ep 103: A Distinguished Career
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Hosted by Loretta Cannon for the AAS-HAD. Today’s guest: Dr. Steve Maran (retired from NASA and AAS - ) shares stories with us from his almost 70 years working, and having fun, in astronomy. H’ad astra historia is the official podcast for the Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical Society. We’re here to share stories from and about the people who study the stars, planets, and the cosmos. We’ll be hearing from individuals who not only study the history of astronomy, but also those who lived it, who were “in the room” during pivotal events...
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Cheap Astronomy - Dear CA #103 - There Are Always Possibilities
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Hosted by Steve Nerlich. What can the anti-matter be? Dear Cheap Astronomy – How much antimatter is there and will it eventually annihilate? Antimatter is generally found in subatomic particle form – so there’s antiprotons and anti- electrons, which can rarely come to together to form an antihydrogen atom. But that’s about it, an anti-helium nucleus has been created in a laboratory but neither it nor any other more complex anti-nuclei have been observed in nature. Dear Cheap Astronomy – How fast could we get to Alpha Centauri with current technologies? If we calculate the trip...
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Exoplanet Radio - Ep. 18: JWST Observes a New Type of Brown Dwarf
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From Aug 11, 2023. Hosted by Tony Darnell. Imagine a planet that is so far away from us that it takes 40 years for its light to reach us. Now imagine that this planet has not one, but two stars that it orbits around. And finally, imagine that this planet has clouds made of sand particles that change the brightness of its atmosphere wildly as they move in the air. This planet, VHS 1256 b, has recently been observed by the James Webb Space Telescope and it is a very interesting world. It is not like any of the planets in our solar system, or even like most of the planets that...
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Astronomy Cast Ep. 721: Rogue Planets
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Streamed live on May 20, 2024. For an ad-free version join our Patreon at By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay. Most of the exoplanets we’ve found are around stars, where they belong. But a few have been found free-floating in interstellar space. The evidence is growing that there are a lot of them out there, maybe even more than planets with stars. How do they form and how can we learn more about them? This video was made possible by the following Patreon members: Ed BogieNet Stephen Veit (rhymes with right) David Gerhard Schwarzer Jeanette Wink Siggi Kemmler Brian Cagle Andrew...
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Travelers in the Night Eps. 731 & 732: Greg’s Comet & Comet Lemmon
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Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. From Feb 10 & 17, 2023. Today's 2 topics: - The discovery by Greg Leonard of P/2018 VN2 (Leonard), a Jupiter family comet whose fate is to become a garden variety main belt asteroid. - Comets Travel Between Stars. An interstellar traveler visits our neighborhood on its tour of the Milky Way. Comet Lemmon will continue on a hyperbolic path into deep space. In 2043 it will be further than the average distance that Pluto is...
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The Cosmic Savannah - Ep. 57: From Dust To Dust
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Hosted by Dr. Jacinta Delhaize & Dr. Daniel Cunnama. We are joined by Dr. Omima Osman, a lecturer at the University of Khartoum in Sudan, who recently completed her PhD at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) in Western Australia. Omima’s PhD research was all about cosmic dust. She explains how this dust forms in the death throes of massive stars, how it grows in interstellar space and how it’s then, in turn, destroyed again by the death of stars. Omima also spoke to us how her research into the “stickiness” and “chance of destruction” of dust...
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EVSN - Massive Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica at Risk of Collapse
The 365 Days of Astronomy
From December 16, 2021. A team of scientists collected cores and modeled ice cliff failure and found that Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is melting more quickly than ever and could be at risk of collapse, threatening global coastlines with almost a meter of sea level rise. Plus, new results from Percy, and this week’s What’s Up. We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too! Every bit helps!...
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Awesome Astronomy - Totally Eclipse
The 365 Days of Astronomy
Dr. Jenifer “Dr. Dust” Millard hosts and Dustin Ruoff guest hosts and produces, while Paul Hill, Damien Phillips & John Wildridge produce. Episode #143, May 2024. This episode it is Jeni and Dustin talking about their experiences of the Great American Eclipse! Produced by Paul, Jen, Dustin, John & Damien. Bio: Awesome Astronomy explores the frontiers of science, space and our evolving understanding of the Universe. Join Paul & Jeni for informative and fun astronomy programmes dedicated to space and astronomy news and monthly podcast extras covering hot topics and special...
info_outlineDr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( @Nmcanopus ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. travelersinthenight.org
Today's 2 topics:
- In a dance of unequal partners the Earth and Moon orbit a common center of gravity which itself travels about the Sun. Leading and trailing the moon's twisted path by 60 degrees, are the L4 and L5 Lagrange points, where gravitational forces create a bowl in space time in which an object will remain until it is disturbed.The discovery of two large ghostly neighbors approximately 65,000 by 45,000 miles in size at the L4 and L5 sites approximately 250,000 miles from both the Earth and Moon verifies theoretical predictions.
- Space is not all that far away. If a powerful solar eruption in 2012 had happened a week earlier, the blast of radiation would have caused widespread power blackouts disabling everything that plugs into a wall socket as well as the water and sewer systems which rely on electric pumps.
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