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PODCAST

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition

Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela L. Gay

The weekly podcast from the International Year of Astronomy 2009. This podcast comes out weekly and includes each daily episode of the 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast.

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Ep. 649: Highlights From NASA’s Holiday Ruining History

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2022/07/11

Have you ever noticed that significant space and astronomy events seem to happen during the holidays? It’s not a coincidence. There’s actually a reason why. Today we’ll talk about some of the key events that happened during holidays and the underlying rationale.

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53:44

Ep. 648: Summer Observing

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2022/07/04

Summer is officially, astronomically here, and for the folks in the northern hemisphere that means it’s a perfect time to head outside and see what’s happening in the sky. Today we’ll give you a good list of things to keep an eye out for with or without a telescope.

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37:38

Ep. 647: Best Sci Fi Beach Reading

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2022/06/27

[Editor's Note: The Q&A section was lost when the internet & software demons did their thing. Sorry. I did get the initial co-host banter part adequately. -- Rich] Summer’s here! And that means finally tackling that huge list of books piled up on your bedside table and filling up your Kindle. What books do we recommend for some fun reads this summer? - The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scsalzi - Space Opera by Katherine Valente - The Culture series by Iain M. Banks (The Player of Games) - Six

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Ep. 646: Our Long Term Future in Space

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2022/06/20

We always say that we're living in golden age of space and astronomy, but it feels like things are just accelerating. Space travel is happening! What does the long-term future hold for our place in the Universe?

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01:00:46

Ep. 645: The Future of the ISS

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2022/06/13

The International Space Station has been continuously inhabited for over 20 years now, serving as a peaceful collaboration between space-faring nations. But it's a machine, and it's getting old. In addition, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has made things, complicated. What's the future for the ISS?

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59:02

Ep. 644: Is Earth… Normal?

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2022/05/30

We've now discovered thousands of exoplanets, we're learning more and more about the kinds of planetary systems there are out there across the Universe. But are planets like Earth unique or totally rare?

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56:23

Ep. 643: Sagittarius A*

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2022/05/17

All the waiting is over, we've finally seen the image of the event horizon from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way. Different shaped blobs! And a black circle in the middle. What are we looking at? Today we're going to explain the picture, and what's next for the Event Horizon Telescope.

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Ep. 642: Is the Sun... Normal?

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2022/05/16

We've always assumed that we lived in a perfectly normal star system with a normal star and normal planets. It's all... normal. But with our modern understanding of billions of stars, just how normal is our Sun, anyway?

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57:03

Ep. 641: Can Planets Be Alive?

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2022/05/09

The Earth is teeming with life, but the upper atmosphere to kilometers underground. There's no question that our planet has life. But is our planet itself alive? This is a question posed back in the 1970s as the Gaia hypothesis, and it got its share of criticism. Some new ideas have been proposed to bring this hypothesis to the modern era as we search for exoplanets.

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51:54

Ep. 640: Survey Science: Newest Projects & Results

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2022/05/02

There are general-purpose telescopes and missions that astronomers can use to study specific objects. And there are the survey missions that look at the entire sky, which astronomers can use to answer questions about the Universe. We've talked about surveys in the past, but the landscape is changing quickly so it's time for an update.

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57:31

Ep. 639: Big Qs Update: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Etc.

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2022/04/18

Knowledge moves forward, and so, we must move with it. Today we'll give you an update on some of the most fascinating, fast-changing topics in astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology.

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54:31

Ep. 638: Simulating Space Missions

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2022/04/11

Although humans have never actually been to Mars, explorers have simulated many aspects of Mars missions here on Earth. There are missions under the ocean, on the tops of volcanoes, in the harsh Canadian north, and even in bed that simulate the limitations of spaceflight, and teach us many of the lessons to prepare us for the real thing

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54:27

Ep. 637: Machine Learning in Astronomy

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2022/04/04

Computers are a big part of astronomy, but mostly they've been relegated to doing calculations. But recent developments in machine learning have changed everything, giving computers the ability to do jobs that humans could only do in the past.

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59:08

Ep. 636: Blowing Bubbles

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2022/03/28

We think of space as a vacuum, but there are regions of different density. There are winds blowing from stars and other objects that clear out vast bubbles in space, and look absolutely fantastic in pictures. And they might have been critical for Earth to even exist in the first place.

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Ep. 635: Jets: When Magnetic Fields Fling Things

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2022/03/21

As astronomers look out across the Universe. They see various objects spewing jets of material light years into space. What causes these jets? And what impact do they have on the Universe?

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Ep. 634: Milky Way’s Mergers & Acquisitions

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2022/03/14

The Milky Way is a vast grand spiral today, but how did it get this way? Astronomers are starting to unravel the history of our galaxy, revealing the ancient collisions with dwarf galaxies, and how they came together to build the modern Milky Way.

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Ep. 633: Weirdly Habitable Places

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2022/03/07

We've always assumed that habitable planets would need to be like Earth; a terrestrial planet orbiting a sunlike star. But now astronomers have been discovering planets in the habitable zone around very much non-sunlike stars. What strange places could be habitable?

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43:45

Ep. 632: Building Images: Optical vs Radio

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2022/02/28

A recent image from the South African MeerKAT Telescope blew our minds. It was a high resolution image of the center of the Milky Way showing delicate filaments and other structures. What was so mind blowing is that this was an image from a radio telescope. Today we’re gonna talk about why this was such an accomplishment and what the future holds for radio astronomy. https://www.sarao.ac.za/media-releases/new-meerkat-radio-image-reveals-complex-heart-of-the-milky-way/

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Ep. 631: All The Uses Of Pulsars (Including Murder)

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2022/02/21

Pulsars are the rapidly spinning degenerate husks of dead stars, turning hundreds of times a second. But they're also handy clocks, spinning with such certainty and accuracy that astronomers can use them for all kinds of stuff. We might even use them to navigate the cosmos.

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57:58

Ep. 630: Things We Can Look Forward To

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2022/02/14

In a rare moment of weakness, Pamela has decided she's open to the possibility that a future exists. That missions, telescopes and spacecraft are going to be built and they're going to do science. Today we'll talk about what we're looking forward to before she changes her mind and my naive optimism for the future.

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