Skytalk Archive
NASA’s InSight Mars lander keeps daily records of weather conditions at the Elysium Planitia landing site on the red planet. Last week
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Air Date: February 29, 2020
Listen 06:23
Stardust discovered in a meteorite that landed in Australia more than 50 years ago is up to three billion years older than our solar syst
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Air Date: February 22, 2020
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Today is Galileo’s 456th birth anniversary. His iconoclastic reputation overshadows his basic raison d’etre at the time – to make a
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Air Date: February 15, 2020
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Astronomers observing white dwarf stars see spectrographic signatures of previously orbiting gas giant planets. Our gas giants (Jupiter a
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Air Date: February 8, 2020
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49ers, Chiefs & Punxsutawney Phil
49ers, Chiefs & Punxsutawney Phil
This Superbowl Sunday coincides with Groundhog Day – the first cross-quarter da
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Air Date: February 1, 2020
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No Belt Can Contain This Asteroid!
There’s the asteroid belt that we all know between Mars and Jupiter; there’s the Kuiper Belt out beyond Neptune, the most famous inha
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Air Date: January 25, 2020
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The dim red star Proxima Centauri, 4.2 lightyears from Earth, is known to have an EarthPlus-planet in the star’s habitable zone. Now a
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Air Date: January 21, 2020
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Supernovae are known as element factories, but astronomers are now discovering that merging neutron stars and fast-spinning supernovae ma
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Air Date: January 11, 2020
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This year’s highlights in the world of astronomy include:
1) An image of the shadow of a black hole resembles an ‘oran
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Air Date: December 28, 2019
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We’ve arrived at the point in our solar orbit where the number of hours of sunlight are at a minimum for us in the North, and and c
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Air Date: December 23, 2019
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Let There Be Light (but not too much)
SpaceX will coat one side of a satellite to reduce brightness interference when observing from Earth. They intend to test one unit on the
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Air Date: December 14, 2019
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Thinking about buying a telescope as a gift this holiday season? Consider these three easy guidelines:
1) Start simple; a telescop
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Air Date: December 9, 2019
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There are lots of hints regarding the possibility of the existence of liquid water around the solar, system, the galaxy, and the universe
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Air Date: December 2, 2019
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Our Milky Way’s SgrA Black Hole in the center of our galaxy has ejected a star from the galaxy at a brisk 3.7 million miles per hou
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Air Date: November 23, 2019
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