Pamela Gay - ’Twas The Observer’s Day Before Christmas
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Hosted by Dr. Pamela Gay. Description: Pamela tells a Christmas tale for astronomers one and all. With apologies to Clement Clarke Moore. Bio: Dr. Pamela L. Gay is co-host of the popular AstronomyCast podcast. Additionally, she created Astrosphere New Media Association, a nonprofit organization that promotes science through internet based technologies, in order to keep many of the IYA projects alive. 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...
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Exoplanet Radio - Ep. 31: Astronomers Confirm Proxima Centauri b is Not A Transit Exoplanet
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From September 6, 2023. Hosted by Tony Darnell. Astronomers have recently concluded an observation study of the closest exoplanet to Earth, Proxima Centauri b and found that the planet does not transit its star. These observations settle a question that astronomers have been asking since the exoplanet's discovery in 2016 using the radial velocity method. 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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Astronomy Cast Ep. 738: Looking Ahead to 2025
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Streamed live on Dec 16, 2024. What can we hope (or dread) to see in 2025? Last week we talked about the 2024 strangeness. Now we’re gonna talk about the upcoming space stories for 2025 that we’re looking forward to. It’s a nice mix of new rockets, new missions and new fly-bys. Hosted by: Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela L. Gay SUPPORTED BY YOU! This Episode is made possible thanks to our Patrons on Patreon. Join at the Galaxy Group level or higher to be listed in our YouTube videos Thanks to: Andrew Poelstra, BogieNet, Brian Cagle, David, David Truog, Ed, Gerhard, Schwarzer, Jeanette...
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Travelers in the Night Eps. 769 & 770: Green Comet & Hycean World
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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. Today's 2 topics: - Given the effects of climate change today who can predict what planet Earth will be like when C/2023 P1(Nishimura) comes back near our home planet in approximately 2455 AD. - Hycean Worlds, with masses between Earth and Neptune which have thin hydrogen rich atmospheres above a liquid water ocean may be very common in our neighborhood of the Milky Way. They could be an abode of life. We've added a...
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Cheap Astronomy - Dear CA # 113: The Planets
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We’ve plundered Earth, what’s next? Dear Cheap Astronomy – If we did colonize the Solar System, what would we do with the different planets? It remains to be seen if we will spread out across the solar system. While we starting to feel more confident about avoiding a mass extinction asteroid strike, a super-volcano eruption could just as easily end civilization as we know it. There’s also the more mundane scenario of where our population keeps growing, we run low on resources and then fight a bunch of wars over what’s left, pretty-much trashing what’s left of the ecosystem in the...
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EVSN - Searching for Dark Energy in Black Holes
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From December 11, 2024. From baby planets to ancient black holes, let's look at the week's space news, including the discovery of a planet around a still-forming star, our Sun's massive outbursts as measured by tree rings, a new catalog of white dwarfs in binary systems, and a deep dive into the possibility that black holes create dark energy. As always, we'll also bring you tales from the launch pad. 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...
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Actual Astronomy - Observing Lists & Eyepiece Cleaning
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Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan. The Actual Astronomy Podcast Episode 464 presents Observing Lists and Eyepiece Cleaning. In this episode we talk about a few observing lists Chris is working on for the RASC Observer's Handbook and Calendar plus some Wide Field Wonders. Shane details his cleaning process for eyepieces. My little counterweight arrived! Bought a semi-truck snow brush to clear snow from the rails Sadly where the roll off rails enter the observatory freezing rain and snow accumulate behind the wheels, builder can fix...
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Awesome Astronomy - Re-examining Uranus
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Paul Hill and Dr. Jenifer “Dr. Dust” Millard host. Damien Phillips, John Wildridge and Dustin Ruoff produce. This month we look at new old data about Uranus, a possible second dinosaur asteroid the first image of a star in another galaxy and the image of a new planet forming. Plus sky and launch guides and a chat about Christmas present ideas! 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. 238: What Makes the Sun’s Corona So Dang Hot?
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How can the solar corona be hotter than the surface? What has the Parker Solar probe learned so far? What do magnetic fields have to do with all this? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at and get on your way to being your best self. Visit BetterHelp to get 10% off your first month! Support the show: All episodes: Follow on Twitter: Read a book: Keep those questions about space, science, astronomy, astrophysics, physics, and cosmology coming to #AskASpaceman for COMPLETE...
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Astronomy Cast Ep. 737: Weird Science Stories From 2024
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Streamed live December13, 2024. Hosted by: Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela L. Gay. 2024 was a strange year! I’ll let your imagination take flight and consider how 2024 was weird for you. But, for space and astronomy we had some interesting, revolutionary, unsettling and downright weird stories pop up. Today let’s talk about them. SUPPORTED BY YOU This Episode is made possible thanks to our Patrons on Patreon. Join at the Galaxy Group level or higher to be listed in our YouTube videos. Thanks to: Andrew Poelstra, BogieNet, Brian Cagle, David, David Truog, Ed, Gerhard, Schwarzer,...
info_outlineI’m Rob Webb, your Last Minute Astronomer, bringing astronomy to normies and nerds, with little time to spare. Joining me today is my son, Soccorso.
13th – 14th – Geminid Meteor Shower – The Geminids are usually a good shower, with up to 100 meteors per hour. That means that, even though this is not a great year for them (Full Moon will brighten the sky and reduce how many meteors we’ll see), hanging outside for 20-30 minutes should still bring you some good sights.
When? Really, any time of the night is good. After midnight is always best…
Where do I look? The whole sky, but note Gemini is where the radiant is - where the meteors will appear to be coming from. Gemini will be in the East after sunset, South after midnight, West in the morning.
But be well prepared…
- Dedicate at least 20-30 minutes to being outside and not looking at your phone - this allows your eyes to get dark adapted and reduces the risk of you missing one because you’re going in-and-out. Stay dark-adapted by staying away from light sources or using a red light if you need to look at a star chart or not trip over something.
- Find a dark location and lie down in a reclining chair or hammock.
- Dress warmly. LAYERS!!!
- Check the weather to see if the skies will be clear.
- Adapt your eyes to the dark by staying away from light sources or using a red light if you need to look at a star chart or not trip over something.
- You never know when a nice meteor will burn up, so take a nice look at the sky in general, noting that the meteors will appear to go from the radiant and outward.
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