Space
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
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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
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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
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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
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The dwarf planet Pluto will be visited by New Horizons this summer, with the closest approach scheduled for June 14th. This complet ...
Air Date: May 18, 2015
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Last Thursday, after 11 years in space, NASA’s Messenger spacecraft made a scheduled crash onto the surface of Mercury, but not bef ...
Air Date: May 4, 2015
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This Friday, May 1st is a cross-quarter day – halfway between the first day of spring and the first day of summer. It’s a day ...
Air Date: April 27, 2015
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Come One, Come All: No Telescope Needed
Friday marks the 5th Annual city-wide Astronomy Night, which is the first event of the 2015 Philadelphia Science Festival. Commun ...
Air Date: April 20, 2015
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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
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Newly 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
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Fastest 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
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Water, 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
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Meetings 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
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