x

75% of people globally want unbiased news (Pew Research) but are concerned they're not getting that.

Get balanced coverage with Symby. See how stories are covered across diverse outlets and spot when one side covers a story the other skips.

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.

science & medicine natural sciences

All Episodes

59:30

Ep. 571: Extreme Binaries

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2020/05/25

Streamed live on May 22, 2020. So we're familiar with regular binary stars. Two stars orbiting each other. Simple. Of course the Universe has come up with every combination of things orbiting other things, and this week we look at some extreme examples.

en

58:46

Ep. 570: Discovering Comets

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2020/05/18

Streamed live May 15, 2020. Discovering comets is one of the fields that amateurs can still make a regular contribution to astronomy. But more and more comets are getting found by spacecraft, automated systems and machine learning. This week we'll talk about how comets are discovered and how you can get your name on one!

en

01:01:19

Ep. 567: When Satellites Need A House Call

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2020/04/27

Space is really far away, so when you send a satellite out into the void, that's pretty much the last you're going to be able to work on it. And if anything goes wrong, too bad, you're out a satellite. But a new test has shown that it's possible to actually visit and fix a satellite in space. Maybe we don't have to throw them all away after all.

en

01:00:41

Ep. 566: When Comets Fall Apart

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2020/04/20

As everyone knows, the Universe owes us a bright comet. There have been a lot of promising candidates, but in the end, they always fail to live up to our expectations. Comets keep on breaking up with us.

en

59:15

Ep. 565: When Worlds Collide

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2020/04/13

So much of our Solar System has been shaped by enormous collisions early on in our history. Seriously, the nature of every planet in the Solar System has some evidence of massive impacts during some point in its history.

en

01:00:30

Ep. 564: Mini Moons

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2020/04/06

Last month astronomers announced that they had detected a tiny asteroid that had been captured by the Earth's gravity well and had been sharing our orbit for a few years. Today, let's talk about the smallest moons in the Solar System.

en

01:00:48

Ep. 563: White Dwarf Mergers

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition ·

2020/03/30

White dwarfs are usually about 60% the mass of the Sun, so it was a bit of a surprise when astronomers found one that was almost exactly twice that. What happens when white dwarfs merge?

en

01:00:19

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.

en

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.

en

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.

en

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.

en

53:11

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.

en

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?

en

01:00:16

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.

en

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?

en

30:37

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.

en

57:47

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.

en

52:47

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.

en

01:42

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,

en

43:45

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?

en

473 results

Similar Podcasts

科学史评话最新专辑

科学史评话

Hablando con Científicos - Cienciaes.com

cienciaes.com

天方烨谈

基因频道

The Permaculture Podcast

Scott Mann

汪诘：科学有故事（主打）

科学有故事