Space
With the return of the summer constellations rising around midnight, the Milky Way rises up from ringing the horizon and will arc slowly ...
Air Date: May 8, 2017
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The Blanco reflector telescope at Cerro Tololo in Chile has detected a ‘distant dwarf’ planet observers are calling “De ...
Air Date: April 24, 2017
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A star has been discovered that orbits a black hole once every 28 minutes. Not impressed? This star is 2.5 times farther away from the bl ...
Air Date: April 5, 2017
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President Donald Trump’s proposed 2018 budget cuts NASA’s funding by 1%. What’s lost? Some Earth Observing missions, th ...
Air Date: March 27, 2017
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An aspiring astronaut’s life on fake Mars
Ross Lockwood spent four months on top of a volcano in Hawaii. He lived in an inflatable dome the size of a two-bedroom apartment with fi ...
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Exoplanets in the neighborhood
The twin 10m Keck telescopes at Mauna Kea in Hawaii have identified 100 more exoplanet candidates. On ...
Air Date: February 20, 2017
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We celebrate two giant birth anniversaries this week: Wednesday is the 453rd anniversary of Galileo and Sunday is the 544th anniversary o ...
Air Date: February 13, 2017
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February 6th is the 46th anniversary of the first space sport. On this day in 1971, golf enthusiast-turned-astronaut Alan Shepard hit a g ...
Air Date: February 6, 2017
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Vera Rubin’s son reflects on how she paved the way for women
His mother wasn’t sure what to do, and the Rubin family was weighing her options around the dinner table. It was 1975, and astrophysici ...
8 years ago
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Greatest Astronomy Hits of 2016
Join us as we recap the top astronomy-related stories of 2016. 1. A potentially habitable planet was discovered orbiting the close ...
Air Date: January 2, 2017
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December 25 marks Christmas Day and December mini-moon day! The moon was at apogee, or the greatest distance from Earth (for the month). ...
Air Date: December 26, 2016
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This package sold by weight, not by volume
Astronomers at Yale University and University of Toronto have identified something very new over in the Coma Cluster of galaxies 300 ligh ...
Air Date: December 12, 2016
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Reality mars plans for manned mission to Mars
Space exploration is fraught with danger, as evidenced in the National Geographic series MARS. Reinforcing that message, the recent ESA/ ...
Air Date: December 5, 2016
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A supercluster of galaxies was recently found lurking on just the other side of the Milky Way. Only 800 million light years out, it is si ...
Air Date: November 28, 2016
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Clocks change back one hour to Standard Time on Sunday. The moon is one day old on the 31st; not the best for Hallowe’en, but ...
Air Date: October 31, 2016
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