Skytalk Archive
Next Friday, March 29th an historic spacewalk will take place; Anne McClain and Christina Koch will step outside International Space Stat
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Air Date: March 23, 2019
Listen 07:24
NASA’s 2020 budget request for $21 billion includes significant funding to build systems and infrastructure to return to the moon b
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Air Date: March 16, 2019
Listen 06:43
The Atacama desert in Chile is one of the most arid places on the planet – averaging less than one inch of rainfall per year! High
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Air Date: March 8, 2019
Listen 05:42
Worth the Wait for Weightlessness?
Beth Moses, Astronaut Trainer for Virgin Galactic, flew aboard its latest test flight as its first passenger. The VSS Unity flew into spa
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Air Date: March 4, 2019
Listen 06:37
Volunteers Needed for Stellar Sleuthing
Wanna get your hands dirty in astronomy? Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 is a newly revised version of a Zooniverse Citizen Scientist data-mini
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Air Date: February 25, 2019
Listen 05:38
A Conversation With Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi
Earlier this week, the Franklin Institute Night Sky Observatory program featured special guest Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi, astrophysicist, invent
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Air Date: February 16, 2019
Listen 12:12
Astronomers at the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have detected that our Milky Way galaxy, while
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Air Date: February 11, 2019
Listen 07:22
Strolling Our Galactic Neighborhood
Our Milky Way is one of some forty galaxies that comprise what is known as our “local group.”
Two of our nearest galact
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Air Date: January 29, 2019
Listen 06:12
Despite the forecasted blast of arctic air heading our way Sunday – bundle up and brave the cold because the next opportunity to ta
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Air Date: January 19, 2019
Listen 06:43
The more scientists learn about black holes, the more the findings confirm the warning: Speed kills.
The black hole ASASSN-14li lie
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Air Date: January 12, 2019
Listen 07:49
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft continues its sojourn through the outer reaches of our solar system. For the next 20 months, it will
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Air Date: January 5, 2019
Listen 07:42
Enjoy them while you can, because according to a new analysis of data from the Keck 10 meter telescope at Mauna Kea, Saturn’s rings
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Air Date: December 26, 2018
Listen 08:27
41 years since it left Earth in the rear view mirror, NASA’s Voyager 2 bids adieu to our solar system. Earlier this week, engineers
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Air Date: December 13, 2018
Shedding Light on the Dark Side of the Moon
China’s next lunar visitor Chang’e 4 is due to touch down on the far side of the moon on December 31st. If it succeeds in th
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Air Date: December 10, 2018
Listen 06:42
Early Sunsets in Early December
Starting on Monday, December 3rd, we’ll embark on a ten-day period when sunset arrives around 4:35 in the afternoon, marking the ea
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Air Date: December 3, 2018
Listen 06:42