The Last Minute Astronomer - January 2025
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Hi everybody, I’m Rob Webb, your Last Minute Astronomer, bringing astronomy to normies and nerds, with little time to spare. We’ll start by talking about January’s big events, then highlight the naked eye planets, and finish up with the lunar phases, so you can plan ahead better than me. January 2025 is a PLANETARY month! Mars gets big, Mars gets occulted, Mars gets outshined by Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter, then Venus and Saturn pass right by each other, and a brief but intense meteor shower shows up. 13th - Occultation of Mars - MORE than a close encounter, Mars...
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EVSN - Science Here & Far: The Moon, Asteroids, Dark Comets... & Dark Energy
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From December 25, 2024. Let's take a fast-paced journey thru new discoveries planetary science and Cosmology. We look at Dark Comets, Io's gooey mantle, the colonization of a Ryugu sample by Earth bacteria, galaxies growing too fast too early, and more. 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 friends and send the Patreon link to them too! Every bit helps! Thank you!...
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Actual Astronomy - The Observer’s Calendar
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Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan. This month is our Observer’s Calendar for January 2025 but I’ve had Marie Newnham working with me on the RASC Observer’s Colander and she came up with a. Variety of new targets I’ll start adding but have never seen for myself. Jan 5- Neptune 1.1 S of Moon - Occultation for Central and North EU Jan 6 - First Quarter Moon and Walthier Sunrise Ray visible on Moon Jan 7 - Lunar Straight Wall visible and “Eyes of Clavius” on the Moon Jan 8/9 - Uranus 4° S of Moon Jan 11 - “Wargentin...
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Cheap Astronomy - Dear CA #114: Making Sense of Complexity
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Hosted by Steve Nerlich. Dear Cheap Astronomy – Why do further way galaxies moving faster mean the Universe is expanding? It is all a lot to take in – not only is farther away stuff moving faster, also the Universe is expanding faster now than it was in the past and there’s standard candles and red-shift and much room for confusion. Dear Cheap Astronomy – Is there such a thing as a dead planet? To start with it’s probably unreasonably biocentric to define spherical objects that orbit the Sun and have cleared their orbits, as either alive or dead. We can redefine the question...
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UNAWE Space Scoop - Tune in to the Exoplanetary Radio
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Astronomers think that studying the effects of spaceweather and radiation in space will shed more light on exoplanetary atmospheres. You see, spaceweather is what we call the variations in the space environment. Here in our solar system we experience spaceweather as solar wind, solar flares, solar storms, coronal mass ejections from the Sun and even cosmic rays from the rest of the Universe. Did you see the aurora borealis this year? That’s spaceweather! Want to know more? You can visit and . We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to...
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Astronomy Cast Ep. 17: Where Does the Moon Come From?
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From January 1, 2007. We take the Moon for granted, but its effect on the Earth is very important; possibly even critical for the formation of life. But where did it come from? Did the Earth and Moon form together? Or did the Earth capture a wayward Moon? Or was there a more catastrophic cause to this lunar mystery? 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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Travelers in the Night Eps. 771 & 772: Nice PHA & M31, Our Neighbor’s Surprise
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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: - NASA classifies 2023 SZ1 as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid since it is larger than 140m in diameter and on its current path can come to about 6 times the Moon’s distance from us.Fortunately on its current path 2023 SZ1 will not come any closer than 42 times the Moon’s distance from us until after 2171. - Marcel Drechsler, Xavier Strottner, and Yann Sainty’s image of our neighboring galaxy, M31, in...
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The Cosmic Savannah - Ep. 64: Bursts From Space
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In this episode, Tshiamiso and Dan have a discussion with Alexander Andersson from Oxford University about Zooniverse, citizen science projects and how citizens can contribute to the work that astronomers do. During the episode Alex discusses how important and useful the work done by participants in the Bursts from Space project is for helping scientists train AI in the search for radio transients – or as Alex puts it: “Things that go bump in the night”. Join us for another exciting episode and learn how you can contribute to the fascinating research going on in Astronomy today!...
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EVSN - Impact Gardening Churns Surface of Saturn’s Moon Europa
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From July 17, 2021. Over tens of millions of years, the surface of Europa has been churned by impacts down to an average depth of 30 centimeters. This churning means that the search for chemical biosignatures must look below that zone. Plus, methane and icequakes at Enceladus, predicting underwater eruptions, Virgin Galactic's flight, and a Chinese spacewalk. 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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H’ad Astra Historia - Ep. 108: Put a Ring On It
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Hosted by Loretta Cannon for the AAS-HAD. Historical Astronomy Division of AAS Today’s guest: Dr. Linda Spilker (JPL Fellow and Senior Research Scientist) discusses the Cassini mission to Saturn (1997-2017) that she worked with for 30 years, the last 10 as Project Scientist. 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...
info_outlineHosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan. [email protected]
This month is our Observer’s Calendar for January 2025 but I’ve had Marie Newnham working with me on the RASC Observer’s Colander and she came up with a. Variety of new targets I’ll start adding but have never seen for myself.
Jan 5- Neptune 1.1 S of Moon - Occultation for Central and North EU
Jan 6 - First Quarter Moon and Walthier Sunrise Ray visible on Moon
Jan 7 - Lunar Straight Wall visible and “Eyes of Clavius” on the Moon
Jan 8/9 - Uranus 4° S of Moon
Jan 11 - “Wargentin Pancake” visible on Moon
Jan 12 - Mars at Closest Approach - Carbon star T Cnc best tonight
Jan 13 - Full Moon - Mars 0.2° S of Moon - Occultation for NA 9pm EST
Jan 14 - Follow Arcturus into the daytime sky
Jan 15 - Mars at Opposition
Jan 17 - Saturn and Venus 3° apart
Jan 19 - Venus 3° N of Saturn
Jan 21 - Last Quarter Moon
Jan 25 - Mare Orientale visible on Moon
Jan 31 - Saturn 1.1° South of Moon
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