December Sky Guide for Equatorial Region
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Hosted by our Director, Avivah Yamani. Today we have sky guide for the rest of December 2025, specifically curated for observers in the equatorial region with Indonesia as the based of location. While the recent dazzling Full Moon and Supermoon gave us a brilliant start, the celestial show continues with powerful planetary meetings and the most spectacular meteor shower of the year! 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...
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EVSN - Cotton Candy Super Puffs, the Warped Milky Way Galaxy & Conference Chaos
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From March 3, 2020. Hosted by Suzie Murph. This week’s news is weird. Cotton candy exoplanets called “SuperPuffs” may have rings, the Milky Way Galaxy may have been warped by a major collision, and conference COVID cancellations and uncertainty are overwhelming the news this week. 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! Thank you! ------------------------------------...
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Actual Astronomy - Observer's Guide - December
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Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan. - Dec 3-4 – Moon 0.8° N of Pleiades (Occults stars in Virginia) Carbon Star U Lyr best tonight - Dec 4 – Full Moon in Taurus - Dec 7 – Jupiter 4° South of Moon Mercury Greatest Elongation 21° from Sun in morning Sky Endymion sunset rays visible on Moon - Dec 7-8 Moon and M44 - Dec 8 – 16 Psyche at Opposition 9.4 magnitude Asteroid 16 Psyche is a large, metal-rich asteroid, thought to be the exposed core of a protoplanet, located between Mars and Jupiter. It is composed of a high concentration of...
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Awesome Astronomy - December Part 1: Icy Telescopes & Martian Lightning
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Paul Hill and Dr. Jenifer “Dr. Dust” Millard host. Damien Phillips, John Wildridge and Dustin Ruoff produce. This episode it is a new bananza with discussion of the Thirty Metre Telescope, shenanigans on Mars, asymmetrical supernovae and more trouble in the world of cosmology. There is a Xmas Telescope buying guide as well as our monthly skyguide! 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...
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Ask A Spaceman - Ep. 261: What are Black Dwarfs?
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What happens to a white dwarf when it cools off? How long does it take? Do they just stay black forever, or will something more interesting happen to them someday? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! Support the show: All episodes: Watch on YouTube: Read a book: Keep those questions about space, science, astronomy, astrophysics, physics, and cosmology coming to #AskASpaceman for COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF TIME AND SPACE! Big thanks to my top Patreon supporters this month: Justin G, Chris L, Alberto M, Duncan M, Corey D, Michael P, Naila, Sam R,...
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Astronomy Cast Ep. 773: What Would You Do With $1 Billion For Astronomy?
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Hosted by: Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela L. Gay. Streamed live on Nov 9, 2025. We are powerless fans of space exploration. But what if some fool gave us the authority and funding to make our space dreams a reality? Someone asked us what we’d do with a billion dollars. What missions? Which telescopes? But what if we had more? 100 Billion! A trillion! All the monies! You keep asking, and this week we answer you! Come hear what Fraser and Pamela would do if they were given complete control over $1billion that had to be used for astronomy. This show is supported through people like...
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Travelers in the Night Eps. 353E & 354E: Peaceful Star & Martian Debris
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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 September 2025. Today's 2 topics: - The Sun is our very own well behaved star. It rises and sets in our sky every day and powers and makes possible all life forms on planet Earth. A new appreciation for our Sun is growing as we learn more about other suns and their families of planets. The Trappist-1 system of 7 planets orbits a dim M type red dwarf star about 40 light years away in the constellation of Aquarius....
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Folklore - Tokuzou's Star: When the Northern Star Moved
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Hosted by our Director, Avivah Yamani. In Japanese folklore Tokuzou was a great mariner from Osaka who relied on Polaris (as we europeans call it), the North Star for navigation at sea. Then one night his wife saw that it had shifted out of place and she was afraid that her husband wouldn’t be able to find his way back home! 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! Thank...
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EVSN - Another Potential Dark Matter Particle Isn’t Found
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From April 21, 2021. Researchers looked for a slowdown in black hole rotational speeds due to the collection of ultralight bosons, but they found nothing, eliminating the hypothetical particle from the list of possible dark matter particles. Plus, neutrino hunting, neutron stars, and a space hurricane. 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! Thank you!...
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H’ad Astra Historia - The 2026 Doggett Prize, Part 1
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Episode 207. Today’s guest: Professor Thomas Hockey, with the University of Northern Iowa, is the recipient of HAD’s 2026 LeRoy E. Doggett Prize, which is awarded biennially to an individual who has significantly influenced the field of the history of astronomy by a career-long effort. In our interview, we’ll hear about his background and explore some of his many achievements. This is the first of multiple episodes presenting our interview with him. H’ad astra historia is the official podcast for the Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical Society. We’re...
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https://www.iau.org/news/pressreleases/detail/iau2406/
The International Astronomical Union and WNYC’s award-winning science podcast, Radiolab, invite people worldwide to take the unique opportunity to suggest a name for one of Earth's quasi-moons, 2004 GU9. Submissions are open until 30 September and the winning name will receive official recognition by the IAU.
https://radiolab.org/moon-official-rules/
For millennia, people across the globe have built deep connections to objects in the night sky, assigning them names and stories imbued with their cultural heritage and understanding of the world. Naming campaigns highlight these connections and provide the global public with a chance to have their creativity embedded in the cosmos.
Earlier this year, Latif Nasser, co-host of the science podcast Radiolab ( https://radiolab.org ), petitioned the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to name a quasi-moon of Venus after noticing a typo on a map of the Solar System. The saga was documented on a Radiolab episode and tweet thread from Nasser that went viral, opening the door for listeners to learn more about this fascinating class of objects. The episode established a connection between the IAU and Radiolab, which is produced by WNYC Studios [1]. The organisations have now teamed up to invite a global audience to engage with this field of astronomy through a new naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons.
Quasi-moons of a planet are asteroids that orbit the Sun and follow a path similar to that of the planet. Due to the relative motion of the two objects, it appears as though the asteroid is orbiting the planet from the perspective of an observer on the planet’s surface. If a quasi-moon is near the Earth, it might seem as if we have a new moon, even though it is hardly affected by the Earth's gravitational pull.
By taking part in “Name a Quasi-Moon!”, people worldwide will have the chance to leave their mark on our sky with official recognition from the world’s authority responsible for assigning names to objects in our Solar System and beyond. By involving the IAU’s wide international network, the collaboration will reach new audiences, ensuring our sky will be more representative of the world’s diverse ideas, cultures, perspectives, and ways of knowing.
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