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Browse Past ShowsProgram ArchivesBrowse by Subject: Astronomy and Cosmology
THE JOURNEY TO PALOMAR -- A NEW DOCUMENTARY
November 3, 2008 Guests: Robin Mason, Todd Mason Select Format: MP3 Windows Media We journey to the Palomar Observatory to visit with filmmakers Robin and Todd Mason who have created a great new public television documentary about George Ellery Hale, builder of what were the... more »
NORTHROP GRUMMAN SPACE TECHNOLOGY PRESIDENT ALEXIS LIVANOS
September 8, 2008 Guests: Alexis Livanos Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Engineer, scientist, and executive Livanos talks about his company's fifty years of support for space science, the status of the James Webb Space Telescope, and his passionate concern about climate... more »
THE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO ASTRONOMICAL WONDERS
September 1, 2008 Guests: Robert Bruce Thompson Select Format: MP3 Windows Media It may be the only book amateur astronomers need. We'll talk with Illustrated Guide to Astronomical Wonders co-author Robert Bruce Thompson. Bill Nye provides reassurance regarding dependence on... more »
THE MILKY WAY: A NEW GALACTIC SELF-PORTRAIT
June 23, 2008 Guests: Bob Benjamin, Thomas Dame Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Astronomers have just announced findings that have reshaped understanding of our home galaxy. Bob Benjamin and Thomas Dame join us to explain. Emily Lakdawalla provides a Phoenix Mars mission... more »
THE BRIGHTEST LIGHT IN THE UNIVERSE
April 28, 2008 Guests: Neil Gehrels Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The Swift spacecraft found the biggest explosion ever witnessed by humans just last month. This Gamma Ray Burst was halfway across the universe. Principal Investigator Neil Gehrels tells us about... more »
JOHN ANDERSON AND THE FLYBY ANOMALY
March 10, 2008 Guests: John Anderson Select Format: MP3 Windows Media First the Pioneer Anomaly, now a new challenge to physics appears in the Flyby Anomaly. JPL celestial mechanics expert John Anderson... more »
STARDUST@HOME UPDATE FROM ANDREW WESTPHAL
December 3, 2007 Guests: Andrew Westphal Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Stardust@Home Director Andrew Westphal returns to Planetary Radio as the project prepares to extract the first bits of interstellar matter found by 23,000 trained volunteers. Emily Lakdawalla looks... more »
THE UNIVERSE IN ULTRAVIOLET: BILL BLAIR ON THE FUSE MISSION
October 29, 2007 Guests: Bill Blair Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer is dead, and astrophysicist Bill Blair helped to kill it. He tells us why, and shares the wonder of this very successful eight-year mission. Emily... more »
THE PIONEER ANOMALY: CHANGING THE LAWS OF PHYSICS?
September 10, 2007 Guests: Slava Turyshev Select Format: MP3 Windows Media JPL research scientist Slava Turyshev returns to provide an update on the Pioneer Anomaly project. With just a couple of obstacles left to overcome, almost thirty years of mission data are almost... more »
A HOLE IN THE UNIVERSE
September 3, 2007 Guests: Lawrence Rudnick Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Lawrence Rudnick and two colleagues, all at the University of Minnesota, are publishing a paper about their discovery of a tremendous void in the cosmos, a billion light year-wide expanse that... more » |
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