Actual Astronomy - Top Ten Techniques for Buying Used Telescope Gear
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Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan who enjoy teaching astronomy classes and showing the public views through their telescopes. Top ten techniques for buying used telescope gear on Episode 552 of the Actual Astronomy podcast. I’m Chris and joining me is Shane. We are amateur astronomers who love looking up at the night sky and this podcast is for everyone who enjoys going out under the stars. New vs. used: Baked in discount Cheaper way to try different things Less cost to buy try sell than new and get hit by depreciation Great...
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Deep Astronomy - The Triangulum Galaxy: The Most Distant Naked Eye Object
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Hosted by Tony Darnell. From Nov 7, 2017. Have you ever wondered what the most distant object we can see with our naked eyes is? The answer is The Triangulum Galaxy some three million light years from Earth. This galaxy, along with the Great Andromeda Galaxy will collide with our Milky Way in about four billion years. This galaxy collision will herald in a new era for our home galaxy The Milky Way. We will transform into an entirely new galaxy with billions more stars. If you like this content, please consider supporting Deep Astronomy on Patreon! Created with...
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Cheap Astronomy - Dear CA # 139: Clearing the Neighborhood
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Saving the world on a tight budget. Hosted by Steve Nerlich. Dear Cheap Astronomy – Can we clear all the PHOs from around Earth? A key feature of Cheap Astronomy’s CSOTM (Crash Shirt On The Moon) proposal is that the most readily available source of shirt to crash are near Earth asteroids and a small number of comets. This has the double benefit of putting all the raw materials in one place, plus you are clearing out potentially hazardous objects that could collide with Earth at some time in the future. Dear Cheap Astronomy – Can we really deflect asteroids with rocket engines?...
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Astronomy Cast Ep. 800: The Beginning & End of Everything - Part 1
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Streamed live on Sep 7, 2026. Hosted by: Fraser Cain () and Dr. Pamela L. Gay () This show is supported through people like you on Patreon.com/AstronomyCast To celebrate our 20th season, we thought we’d go back right to the beginning… of everything. Let’s wind the clock back to the earliest moments of the Universe, where we’ll measure time in fractions of a second. As the foundational laws of physics were laid down and we experience the repercussions to this day! We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. ...
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Travelers in the Night Eps. 375 & 376: Extraterrestrial Whales & Tiny Space Rock
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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 February 2026. Today's 2 topics: - In an area which is about 1/400th of the entire sky, the NASA Kepler spacecraft has discovered 30 Earth like planets which are likely to have liquid water on their surfaces orbiting distant stars. These planets are likely to represent a tiny sample of the habitable planets which exist in the Milky Way. In spite of our efforts to find them, the question remains where are the alien...
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NOIRLab - The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys
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Hosted by Rob Starks. The newest DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys map, 13 years in the making, covers three-quarters of the sky and catalogs nearly four billion objects. This treasure trove is available to all and contains stars, galaxies, supernovae, gravitational lenses, and much more. Two NSF NOIRLab facilities contributed data to the map: the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Mayall telescope and the NSF Blanco telescope, equipped with the U.S. Department of Energy-fabricated DECam. In this podcast, Dr. John Moustakas discusses the surveys, the data and how it will impact future...
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EVSN - Newly Discovered Solar System Object is ‘Farfarout’
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From February 15, 2021. A newly found object nearly four times farther out from the Sun than Pluto now holds the record for the farthest observed in our solar system. Plus, forming Super Earths, finding potentially habitable planets, jellyfish galaxies, the Crab Nebula, and this week’s What’s Up. D100 in the Coma Cluster: 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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Guide To Space - Universe Today News: 7 Stage Journey Reveals How Falling Space Rocks Survive Air
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By - August 31, 2026. Recorded by our Editor, Richard Drumm. At least once in our lives, we’ve all seen a bright streak of light briefly blaze across the sky and have quickly referred to it as an asteroid, meteor, shooting star, comet, or some other whimsical name we’ve heard others use to describe it. For those calling it a meteor, you would be correct, but we’ll touch upon this later. The time it takes for a space rock, bolide being its scientific name, to travel through Earth's atmosphere and crash into the ground literally takes only a few seconds. But what happens to a space rock...
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Big Impact Astronomy - Inspiring the World Through Astronomy With Dr. Kelly Blumenthal
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From July 23, 2026. Hosted by Mike Simmons. Episode 19. - Visit our website! Dr. Kelly Blumenthal is an astrophysicist and science communicator who has lived in and worked with many communities across the United States and worldwide. These experiences have shaped Kelly’s perspectives on the importance of astronomy communication in building STEM opportunities for under-resourced people worldwide and its role in science generally. Kelly is now the director of the International Astronomical Union's Office of Astronomy Outreach (OAO), hosted by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan in...
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Ask A Spaceman Ep. 279: What Can We Actually Find on an Exoplanet?
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Mapping Alien Worlds! Hosted by Dr. Paul M. Sutter. Just how hard are exoplanets observations? What kind of telescope will it take to find life? And how much information can we get out of a single pixel of light? 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...
info_outlineNeutron stars, the compact remains of a massive star following a supernova explosion, are the densest matter in the Universe. Some neutron stars, known as magnetars, also claim the record for the strongest magnetic fields of any object. How magnetars, which are a mere 15 kilometers across, form and produce such colossal magnetic fields remains a mystery.
New observations by a team of astronomers, including NSF’s NOIRLab’s Dr. André-Nicolas Chené, may shed important light on the origin of these magnetic powerhouses. Using various telescopes around the globe, including the Canada-France-Hawai‘i Telescope (CFHT) on Maunakea, the researchers have identified a new type of astronomical object — a massive magnetic helium star (an unusual variant of a Wolf-Rayet star), which may be the precursor of a magnetar.
In this podcast, André-Nicolas Chené describes the process of finding the first known potential magnetar progenitor.
Bios:
- Rob Sparks is in the Communications, Education and Engagement group at NSF’s NOIRLab in Tucson, Arizona.
- Dr. André-Nicolas Chene is an associate astronomer at NOIRLab. He completed his PhD at the Université de Montréal in 2007 and learned everything about the fundamentals of astronomical observations at the Observatoire du Mont Mégantic. He was research fellow at the NRC Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre and postdoc jointly at the Universidad de Concepción and the Universidad de Valparaíso before joining the Gemini Observatory (now a program of NOIRLab) in 2013. For almost 10 years, André-Nicolas took part in every phase of a Gemini observing program life cycle and has played a central role in Gemini’s user support effort. André-Nicolas’s research interests are massive stars, hot winds, star clusters, and stellar evolution.
Links:
NOIRLab Press Release: https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2323/
NOIRLab social media channels can be found at:
https://www.facebook.com/NOIRLabAstro
https://twitter.com/NOIRLabAstro
https://www.instagram.com/noirlabastro/
https://www.youtube.com/noirlabastro
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