Space
20 planets beyond our solar system need names. . . . and the public is invited to give its thumbs-up or down to proposals. Results will b ...
Air Date: August 31, 2015
Listen 00:08:15
On August 27th , Mars will appear as large as the full moon. Don’t believe this hoax; It could happen BUT if it does, we have a lot ...
Air Date: August 24, 2015
Listen 00:05:21
There’s a great International Space Station pass tonight northwest over to the west; 8:51 to 8:58, but it’ll blink out of sig ...
Air Date: August 17, 2015
Listen 00:07:58
Perseid Meteor Shower peaks this week. – Weds night, Thurs night, Fri night. No moon this year, so it should be much easier to obse ...
Air Date: August 10, 2015
Listen 00:07:22
A quintuple star system is discovered in the constellation Ursa Major. Multiple systems are not unusual, in fact most stars are mu ...
Air Date: August 3, 2015
Listen 00:05:41
Giant Surprises from the Dwarf Planet
Images and data beamed back from NASA’s New Horizons mission has astronomers rethinking what they thought they knew about Pluto. Ke ...
Air Date: July 27, 2015
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46 years ago – Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the moon, while Michael Collins orbited overhead in ...
Air Date: July 20, 2015
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Geophilus Hadesi discovered in Croatian caves – more than half a mile below the earth’s surface! These ‘extrem ...
Air Date: July 13, 2015
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Night Sky Fireworks Beyond the 4th
Call this Venus Week! Friday, Venus shows its greatest illuminated portion – and it will be at its brightest for this year on Sunda ...
Air Date: July 6, 2015
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The Sun will be at its furthest annual distance from the Earth next Monday afternoon – 94,506,507 miles. Heading outdoors to ...
Air Date: June 29, 2015
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Our region reached the maximum hours of daylight for the year yesterday. We lose two seconds today; a minute by the end of the week, and ...
Air Date: June 22, 2015
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If we lived on a planet that orbited a lone star outside of a galaxy, a starless night sky would be possible. Now astronomers have discov ...
Air Date: June 15, 2015
Listen 00:12:31
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is closing in on Pluto. Ahead of the July 14th close approach; astronomers recently learned more abo ...
Air Date: June 8, 2015
Listen 00:06:34
Looking For Life In All The Right Places
NASA plans to send a three-year orbital mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa as early as 2022. It’s at the top of the list of mos ...
Air Date: June 1, 2015
Listen 00:05:29
500,000 quasars (quasi-stellar radio sources) have been detected – including 100 binaries, two triples, and now – one quad. A ...
Air Date: May 25, 2015
Listen 00:06:51