
Skytalk Archive
Rings, Centaurs, and Known Science
Four planets of our solar system have rings – Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. Astronomers can now identify at least two non-pl ...
Air Date: April 13, 2015
Listen 00:05:55Newly discovered dwarf galaxies orbiting our Milky Way may offer opportunities to gain insight about so-called dark matter (the invisible ...
Air Date: April 6, 2015
ListenFastest star in the west (or east, north and south)
US 708 now holds the speed record for extragalactic stars: 2.7 million miles/hour! In this case it’s thought the velocity was provi ...
Air Date: March 30, 2015
ListenNASA Success Story Celebrates Silver Anniversary
Tomorrow marks the 25th year of Hubble Space Telescope operations. It has provided hundreds of thousands of images, identified quasars, d ...
Air Date: March 23, 2015
ListenWater, Water (Almost) Everywhere
– A total solar eclipse is available to be seen – if you’re willing to travel . . . and if you’re willing to chan ...
Air Date: March 16, 2015
ListenMeetings at The Jet Propulsion Lab last week indicate that a major reason why NASA is pursuing landing on Mars is to protect human existe ...
Air Date: March 9, 2015
ListenSpring Ahead: Spring…or No Spring
Clocks go forward one hour to Daylight Saving Time Sunday morning at 2 a.m. Day length is now 11h20m with sunrise at 6:32 and sunset at 5 ...
Air Date: March 2, 2015
ListenBusy ramp-up at International Space Station; both Russian and SpaceX Dragon resupply craft made deliveries recently in ...
Air Date: February 23, 2015
ListenCalendar offers hints of spring
Fat Tuesday and Ash Wednesday mark the start of Lent, heading toward spring which is now just over 4 weeks away. Yester ...
Air Date: February 17, 2015
ListenA perfect pair for Valentine’s Day
Head out of doors in the evening on Valentine’s Day to observe “a perfect pair” — Venus and Mar ...
Air Date: February 9, 2015
ListenThe oldest planets ever discovered in our Milky Way have been around 11.2 billion years! Kepler 444 has identified five ...
Air Date: February 2, 2015
ListenNext Monday (2/2) is Groundhog Day! Halfway through Winter. SpaceX gets another one billion dollars in investments for ...
Air Date: January 26, 2015
ListenBeware of the belching black hole
Chandra X-Ray satellite observes enormous eruption from our Milky Way Galaxy’s black hole . This extreme outburst ...
Air Date: January 19, 2015
ListenWith 8 exoplanet confirmations this week NASA’s Kepler Space Observatory has identified over 1,000 exoplanets pla ...
Air Date: January 13, 2015
Listen2015 astronomy & space exploration highlights
SpaceX ISS resupply launch could come as early as tomorrow or Wednesday. Dawn at Ceres – March 6th: orbited Vesta ...
Air Date: January 6, 2015
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