Space
Shining Star (but just barely)
The smallest star ever just found, called ELBM-J0555-57Ab, is just about the size of Saturn but 300 times as massive. That makes it just
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Air Date: July 18, 2017
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Double the data: studying space’s impact on identical twins
Astronauts often become lab rats of sorts – scientists have an intense interest in studying how space affects their bodies and mind
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7 years ago
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3, 2, 1…Bake off! The mission to make bread in space
Crumbs may seem harmless here on Earth, but they can be a hazard in microgravity — they could get in an astronaut’s eye, or get i
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7 years ago
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Houston, we have a people problem: the first ‘mutiny’ in space
In 1973, a communication snafu between astronauts in space and their colleagues on Earth, alerted NASA to the need for people skills and
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7 years ago
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Inside the NASA program that makes science fiction technology real
Physicists and engineers in New Jersey are working on a power source that can take humans far out into our solar system.
We have l
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7 years ago
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On this date in July 1997, NASA placed the first rover on Mars. Sojourner was followed by Spirit and Opportunity, then Curiosity. It was
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Air Date: July 10, 2017
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This week, Dave Heller and Dr. Derrick Pitts discuss Earth’s elliptical orbit, and how it can still feel hot on Earth when we are a
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Air Date: July 3, 2017
You Must Remember This – An Eclipse Is Not Just an Eclipse
Kepler scientists this week announced the 219 newest additions to the exoplanet count – 10 of which are identified as “terres
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Air Date: June 26, 2017
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‘2001’ came and went, but the movie’s ideas still resonate
The 1968 movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” painted a grand vision of the future — but for lots of us, the real 21st Century has
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7 years ago
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Sun’s Original Twin: What happened to it? UC Berkeley astronomer Steven Stahler and Sarah Sadevoy of Smithsonian Astrophysical Obse
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Air Date: June 19, 2017
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If you’re sweating from our current heat wave, be glad you don’t live on planet KELT-9, orbiting a blue A-type star 620 light
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Air Date: June 12, 2017
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Wiltshire, England doesn’t have the monopoly on solar events with summer solstice at Stonehenge. Philadelphia is a suitable site to
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Air Date: June 5, 2017
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A cosmic debris ring has been observed around a star where a planet has already been directly observed.
Plus, the observed lunar in
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Air Date: May 29, 2017
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Sunset now comes at 8:15pm, giving us 14 hours and 36 minutes of daylight here at Philadelphia’s latitude.
We have about four
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Air Date: May 23, 2017
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With the return of the summer constellations rising around midnight, the Milky Way rises up from ringing the horizon and will arc slowly
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Air Date: May 8, 2017
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