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Browse Past ShowsProgram ArchivesBrowse by Subject: Astronomy and Cosmology
GETTING WISE WITH THE UNIVERSE
January 4, 2010 Guests: Ned Wright Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer is ready to reveal much more of our solar system and beyond. Ned Wright is Principal Investigator for this new space telescope. Emily Lakdawalla laments Mars... more »
MOUNT WILSON AFTER THE FIRE
September 7, 2009 Guests: Hal McAlister Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Hal McAlister directs the Mt. Wilson Institute. He could barely wait for the firefighters to escort him back up the mountain so that he could assess the damage to this shrine to astronomy. He talks... more »
ALAN STERN'S BIGGEST PLANETARY SCIENCE MYSTERIES
June 8, 2009 Guests: Alan Stern Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Planetary scientist and New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern recently came up with his list of the biggest unanswered questions in planetary science. He reviews most of them on this... more »
OLDEST BANG SINCE THE BIG BANG!
May 18, 2009 Guests: Neil Gehrels Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Neil Gehrels, Principal Investigator for the Swift Mission, returns to tell us about the most distant event ever observed, a Gamma Ray Burst more than 13 billion light years away. Bill Nye reports... more »
BRINGING ASTRONOMY TO THE PEOPLE WITH MIKE SIMMONS
March 9, 2009 Guests: Mike Simmons Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The 100 Hours of Astronomy worldwide celebration begins April 2nd. Co-chair Mike Simmons tells us what to expect and how to get involved. Mike also leads Astronomers Without Borders. One successful... more »
AN ENORMOUS NEW EYE ON THE UNIVERSE
December 1, 2008 Guests: Richard Ellis Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Astronomer Richard Ellis looks forward to the Thirty Meter Telescope. more »
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 » |
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