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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. 562: Dealing with COVID-19 and the Changes it...

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2020/03/23

Pamela and Fraser discuss the implications of COVID-19 and it's changes on the world, and what we all can do during this time.

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01:00:21

Ep. 561: Remembering Katherine Johnson

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2020/03/06

We lost a bright star here on planet Earth last week. NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson passed away at the age of 101, after an incredible career of helping humans land on the Moon. If you saw the movie Hidden Figures, you'll know what I'm talking about.

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01:06:26

Ep. 560: Betelgeuse

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2020/02/24

You might be surprised to hear that we've never done an episode of Astronomy Cast featuring Betelgeuse. Well, good news, this is that episode. Let's talk about the star, why it might be dimming, and what could happen if it explodes as a supernova.

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58:07

Ep. 559: The Surface of the Sun

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2020/02/17

A brand new telescope has completed on Maui's Haleakala, and it has just one job: to watch the Sun in unprecedented detail. It's called the Daniel K. Inouye telescope, and the engineering involved to get this telescope operational are matched by the incredible resolution of its first images.

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Ep. 558: Supernova SN 2006gy

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2020/02/10

We've been following this story for more than a decade, so it's great to finally have an answer to the question, why was supernova 2006gy so insanely bright? Astronomers originally thought it was an example of a supermassive star exploding, but new evidence provides an even more fascinating answer.

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54:51

Ep. 557: Red Dwarfs: Friend or Foe

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2020/02/03

On the one hand, red dwarfs are the longest lived stars in the Universe, the perfect place for life to hang out for trillions of years. On the other hand, they're tempestuous little balls of plasma, hurling out catastrophic flares that could wipe away life. Are they good or bad places to live?

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Ep. 556: Multi Messenger Astronomy

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2020/01/27

For the longest time astronomers could only study the skies with telescopes. But then new techniques and technologies were developed to help us see in different wavelengths. Now astronomers can study objects in both visible light, neutrinos, gravitational waves and more. The era of multi-messenger astronomy is here.

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29:58

Ep. 555: Satellite Constellations and the Future of...

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2020/01/19

The other big issue at the AAS was the challenge that astronomy is going to face from all the new satellite constellations coming shortly. There are already 180 Starlinks in orbit, and thousands more are coming, not to mention the other constellations in the works. What will be the impact on astronomy, and what can we do about it?

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Ep. 554: Big Telescope Controversy in Hawai'i

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2020/01/13

This week we're live at the American Astronomical Society's 235th meeting in Honolulu, Hawai'i. We learned about new planets, black holes and star formation, but the big issue hanging over the whole conference is the protests and politics over the new Thirty Meter Telescope due for construction on Mauna Kea.

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Ep. 553: What To Look Forward To In 2020

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2019/12/30

It's hard to believe it, but we survived another trip around the Sun. Now it's time to take the whole journey all over again, but with new news. Let's take a look at some of the space and astronomy stories we're looking forward to in 2020.

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Ep. 552: Boyajian's star (and other strange stars)

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2019/12/23

Huge surveys of the sky are finding more and more planets, stars and galaxies. But they're also turning up strange objects astronomers have never seen before, like Boyajian's star. Today we're going to talk about some unusual objects astronomers have discovered, and why this number is only going to go way way up.

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CosmoQuest Hangoutathon Promo

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2019/12/20

Hi everyone, Producer Susie here. This weekend, December 21-23, 2019, we will be having our CosmoQuest Hangoutathon. For 40 straight hours, our team will be bringing you guests, science and fun live on our channel. We are raising money to pay for our team to continue to bring you science, and for us to continue our citizen science programs, like the extremely successful Bennu Mappers from this past year, where over 3500 of you wonderful volunteers mapped over 14 million rocks on the asteroid Bennu,

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Ep. 551: Missing Epochs - Observing before the CMBR

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2019/12/16

The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation is the earliest moment in the Universe that we can see with our telescopes, just a few hundred thousand years after the Big Bang itself. What will it take for us to be able to fill in the missing gap? To see closer to the beginning of time itself?

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Ep. 550: Missing Epochs - Observing the Cosmic Dark Ages

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2019/12/07

Powerful observatories like Hubble and the Very Large Telescope have pushed our vision billions of light-years into the Universe, allowing us to see further and further back in time. But there are regions which we still haven't seen: the Cosmic Dark Ages. What's it going to take to observe some of these earliest moments in the Universe?

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Ep. 549: Stellar nucleosynthesis revisited: In and on...

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2019/12/02

Last week we gave you an update on the formation of elements from the Big Bang and in main sequence stars like the Sun. This week, we wrap up with a bang, talking about the death of the most massive stars and how they seed the Universe with heavier elements.

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Ep. 548: Stellar nucleosynthesis revisited: In...

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2019/11/25

The Universe started out with hydrogen and helium and a few other elements, but all around us, there are other, more proton-rich elements. We believe these heavier elements formed in stars, but which stars? And at what points in their lives? Today we'll update our knowledge with the latest science.

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58:27

Ep. 547: Why Astronomy Still Needs Humans

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2019/11/18

Few sciences have been able to take advantage of the power of computers like astronomy. But with all this computing power, you might be surprised to learn how important a role humans still play in this science.

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Ep. 546: Weird Issues: Planetary Migration

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2019/11/11

Before we discovered other planets, our Solar System seemed like a perfectly reasonable template for everywhere. But now we see massive planets close to their stars, which leads you to the question, how does it all get there. Do the planets form in place or do they migrate around?

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Ep. 545: Weird Issues: Are comets asteroids or are...

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2019/11/05

Things used to be so simple. Comets were snowballs from the outer Solar System, and asteroids were rocks from the inner Solar System. But now everything's all shades of grey. Astronomers have found asteroids that behave like comets and comets that behave like asteroids.

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Ep. 544: Weird Issues: Biosignatures

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2019/10/28

Once again, another place where the Universe is going to make this difficult for us. Proving, once and for all that there's alien life on another world. It should be straightforward, look for biosignatures, but it looks like there are natural sources that could explain almost any chemical we could hope to search for.

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