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Browse Past ShowsProgram ArchivesBrowse by Subject: Astronomy and Cosmology
NEW MEXICO JOURNEY: DALE FRAIL OF THE VERY LARGE ARRAY RADIO TELESCOPE
November 7, 2011 Guests: Dale Frail Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The first of three stories in the Land of Enchantment takes us to one of the largest and most important astronomical tools on Earth, the 27 dishes of the Very Large Array, deep in the New Mexico... more »
ONE PLANET, TWO STARS, WITH LAURANCE DOYLE
November 1, 2011 Guests: Laurance Doyle Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Multidisciplinary scientist Laurance Doyle led the team that has announced discovery of the first extrasolar planet circling two stars. He also talks about his plan to analyze communication by and among other species. more »
BUILDING A BETTER GALAXY WITH JAVIERA GUEDES
September 26, 2011 Guests: Javiera Guedes Select Format: MP3 Windows Media It's hard to create realistic mathematical models of galaxies. They come out wrong even after lots of work. But now there's one that come closer to reality, partly thanks to inclusion of stellar... more »
LIVE AT THE PACIFIC ASTRONOMY AND TELESCOPE SHOW
September 19, 2011 Guests: Richard Ellis Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The 2011 Pacific Astronomy and Telescope Show was just held in Pasadena, California. Planetary Radio was there before a live audience with Emily Lakdawalla, Bill Nye and special guest, CalTech... more »
ENDING THE WORLD WITH A SONG AT DRAGON CON
September 12, 2011 Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Special coverage from the world's biggest science fiction and fantasy convention in Atlanta, Georgia. We present excerpts of a session called "These are the Ways the World Will End." Put on your 3D... more »
FLYING WITH YOUR TELESCOPE TO THE EDGE OF SPACE
August 22, 2011 Guests: Faith Vilas Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Faith Vilas of the Planetary Science Institute leads the effort to put a telescope on XCOR's sub-orbital spaceplane called Lynx. She tells us the hows and whys on this week's show. Emily Lakdawalla... more »
EINSTEIN AND GRAVITY PROBE B
May 23, 2011 Guests: Francis Everitt Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Principal Investigator Francis Everitt has been with the Gravity Probe B experiment for nearly fifty years. He tells us about the spacecraft's proofs of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. A... more »
COSMIC RANTS FROM PHIL PLAIT, THE BAD ASTRONOMER
April 4, 2011 Guests: Phil Plait Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Astronomer Phil Plait has become one of bad astronomy's (and bad science's) worst enemies. Which bogus stories are bugging him most right now? Emily Lakdawalla previews April activity by missions... more »
THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY CAPTURES THE UNIVERSE
March 21, 2011 Guests: Bob Nichol Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Bob Nichol is the Scientific Spokesperson for the most detailed study of the night sky in history. He'll tell us about this international project and how it continues to reveal the secrets of the... more »
BILL NYE VISITS THE SOFIA TELESCOPE
December 20, 2010 Guests: Bill Nye, Mat Kaplan Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Bill Nye and Mat Kaplan recently drove to California's high desert to shoot a video documentary about the big SOFIA infrared telescope that is carried above 41,000 feet by a remodeled Boeing 747.... more » |
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