Astronomy For Change

Interview with a Suffolk County, NY resident regarding Suffolk's contaminated water and how that has affected him and his family. More information and detail can be found here: https://aguacontaminadasuffolk.com/YouTube video here: https://youtu.be/LuhWFXuxIZw Interview in Spanish (Español) and English --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/astronomy-for-change/support

Betelgeuse, the prominent red supergiant star marking Orion's right shoulder has unexpectedly brightened. A departure from the 2019 dimming, this brightening has sparked a flurry of speculation and a number of studies reigniting speculation of an imminent supernova.The star has long exhausted the compliment of hydrogen fuel in its core and has been burning helium, producing carbon and oxygen. Recent observations show that the star is brightening again after a period of dimming, leading to

Episode image credit: R.S. Wright Today we look at the sky for the week beginning Sunday, July 25th. The sky has changed somewhat since last week. In the morning, Mercury is in Cancer with the sun and lost in the solar glare before sunrise. The evening sky sees Venus remaining prominently placed with Mars setting earlier than last week. Scorpio with red supergiant Antares, the heart of the Scorpion, is on the meridian at 9:20 PM, EDT with Sagittarius due east and prominently placed by midnight. As

With this edition of the sky tonight, the sky has changed slightly since last week. Today we look at the sky for the week beginning Sunday, July 18th. Sunday, July 18th, we have brilliant Venus and ruddy red Mars still well placed in the Southwest sky and setting at 9:50 PM, EDT, following the sun as it sets at 8:26 PM, EDT. As the two planets set, red supergiant Antares, the heart of the Scorpion, has passed the meridian with Sagittarius becoming well placed to the east on the meridian. The waxing

Sunday, July 4th (Independence Day in the US), we have brilliant Venus and ruddy red Mars in Cancer following the sun at sunset. By 9:30 PM, EDT, these planets have set with Regulus, the heart of Leo, setting by 10:00 PM. Pivoting east, we find blue-white Spica, the brightest star in Virgo, high in the southwest with the red supergiant Antares of Scorpio further east and approaching the meridian at 9:30. Sagittarius is low in the southeast and, along with Scorpio, will become more prominent as the

On December 17, 2020, Dr. James Daly of Astronomy For Change interviewed Alberto Caballero, founder of the The Exoplanet Project and The SETI Project. The SETI project is looking for those individuals, individuals from every walk of life, those who wish to become part of the greatest quest ever begun, the “Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence“. He is also involved with the Habitable Exoplanet Hunting Project, an international collaboration of more than 30 observatories looking for nearby

On 3 October of this year, in what the prestigious Royal Swedish Academy described simply as “a discovery that shook the world”, three Americans were awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves”, waves famously predicted by Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity 102 years ago at the end of last month. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/astronomy-for-change/support