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Ep. 716 - The God**** Particle - Remembering Peter Higgs
365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition - April 22, 2024 20:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsLast week, we learned about the death of Peter Higgs, a physicist and discoverer of the particle that bears his name. The Large Hadron Collider was built to find and describe the particle. Today, we’ll look back at the life of Peter Higgs and his particle.
Arcturus
StarDate - April 15, 2024 05:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 205 ratingsThe star Arcturus is a little bit heavier than our own star, the Sun. Yet that small difference has a big effect on the star’s evolution: Arcturus entered a late stage billions of years earlier than the Sun will. Arcturus is one of the brighter stars in the night sky, and shines yellow-orange. B...
Moon and Gemini
StarDate - April 14, 2024 05:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 205 ratingsThe Moon creeps up on the twin stars of Gemini this evening. As night falls, Pollux and Castor are above the Moon. Pollux is on the left, and is a bit brighter than its “twin.” There’s a lot more to Gemini than just the twins — or even the other stars that are visible to the unaided eye. In fact...
Vanishing Hunter
StarDate - April 13, 2024 05:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 205 ratingsThis time of year is pretty inviting for some evening skywatching. The evening hours are warm but not usually too hot, and spring storm activity generally hasn’t reached its peak — pleasant conditions for watching the stars. Unfortunately, one of the most beautiful star patterns is dropping from...
Vaporized Planets
StarDate - April 12, 2024 05:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 205 ratingsPlanetary systems can be violent. In our own solar system, for example, the Moon probably was born from the debris left over when a planet as big as Mars rammed into Earth billions of years ago. And the giant planet Uranus probably was knocked over on its side by a similar collision about the sam...
Vaporizing Planet
StarDate - April 11, 2024 05:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 205 ratingsPlanets like Earth live in the “Goldilocks zone” — the region around a star where conditions are most comfortable for life. But most planets aren’t so cushy. They’re either far away and cold, or close in and hot. And some are so close that they’re being vaporized by their star. One example is WA...
Seeing Giants
StarDate - April 10, 2024 05:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 205 ratingsIf you heat up some alphabet soup, you shouldn’t end up with all the letters clumped together — they should be fairly evenly spread throughout the pot. According to the current understanding of the universe, the same thing should apply to galaxies. They may clump together on smaller scales, form...
Moon and Planets
StarDate - April 09, 2024 05:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 205 ratingsEuropa is one of the more intriguing bodies in the solar system — and one that scientists are especially eager to land a spacecraft on. The big moon of Jupiter may have a global ocean below its icy crust — an ocean that could host life. But landing on Europa won’t be easy. It’s hundreds of milli...
Ep. 715: Total Eclipse of the Science: Experiments During the Eclipse
365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition - April 08, 2024 20:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsHow to watch a solar eclipse and do some science! The next great eclipse is upon us, with viewers across North America witnessing the moon passing in front of the Sun. It’s an amazing experience, but also an opportunity to do science. Let’s talk about what we can learn from this momentous event.
Future Eclipses
StarDate - April 08, 2024 05:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 205 ratingsIn case you haven’t heard, there’s a big event this afternoon — a total eclipse of the Sun. Totality is visible along a narrow path from Texas to Maine. The parts of the country outside that path will see a partial eclipse. If you miss it — well, let’s just say it’ll be a long wait until the nex...
Total Eclipse
StarDate - April 07, 2024 05:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 205 ratingsIt’s almost time for the year’s big celestial event: a total eclipse of the Sun. Tomorrow afternoon, the Moon will pass directly between Earth and the Sun. That will block the Sun’s disk. The sky will grow dark, with a pink glow around the horizon. Stars and planets will pop into view. And the Su...
Eclipse Flights
StarDate - April 06, 2024 05:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 205 ratingsIn the mythology of ancient Egypt, Apep was the serpent god — the rival of Re, the sun god. He chased Re, and sometimes briefly caught him — creating a solar eclipse. NASA plans to launch an experiment named for the serpent god to study the eclipse on Monday. Instruments will fly on three differ...
Eclipse Animals
StarDate - April 05, 2024 05:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 205 ratingsColonial orb-weaver spiders may have some extra work to do on Monday, during a total solar eclipse. During an eclipse in 1991, scientists watched as spiders in Mexico began tearing down their webs as the sky darkened — something they do every evening. When the Sun returned, most of them rebuilt t...
Eclipse Legends
StarDate - April 04, 2024 05:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 205 ratingsA total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes in front of the Sun, briefly blocking it from view. Before people understood the science, however, they created legends to explain the Sun’s disappearance. Many of those legends involved animals or mythical monsters. In China and elsewhere, it wa...
Eclipse Forecasts
StarDate - April 03, 2024 05:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 205 ratingsThe Great North American Eclipse is coming up on Monday. The Moon will briefly cover the Sun. That will turn day to night along a narrow path across Mexico, the United States, and Canada. The timing of the eclipse is known down to the second, and has been for decades. And today, astronomers can ...
Corona
StarDate - April 02, 2024 05:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 205 ratingsOn Monday, millions of people will see something they’ve never seen before: the Sun’s corona — its hot outer atmosphere. It extends hundreds of thousands of miles from the surface of the Sun. But it’s so faint that it’s overpowered by the Sun’s brilliant disk. The only time we can see it is durin...
Episode 142 Awesome Astronomy April 2024
AWESOME ASTRONOMY - April 01, 2024 22:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsThis month Dr Jen is off to the US for the Solar Eclipse while Paul is just back from Goonhilly Earth Station. We chat about the imminent demise of the Chandra Space Telescope, more news on the Hubble tension, and of course the Great North American Eclipse. Chinese Lunar ambitions, Starship m...
Ep. 714: Orbital Resonances
365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition - April 01, 2024 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSeveral of the planets and moons in the Solar System are in orbital resonance, orbiting in a geometric lockstep. And not just the Solar System, astronomers have found the same resonances in other star systems.
Solar Eclipse
StarDate - April 01, 2024 05:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 205 ratingsMany people dread Mondays and the start of the new work week. But there’s something to look forward to next Monday: the Great North American Eclipse. The Moon will completely cover the Sun, turning the sky dark. Tendrils of light will extend away from the Moon — the Sun’s hot outer atmosphere, th...
The REACH Guide to the Total Solar Eclipse
REACH A Space Podcast for Kids - April 01, 2024 05:00 - 10 minutesOn April 8, 2024 we will experience a Total Solar Eclipse. What exactly is an eclipse? Who will get to see it? How can you safely view? What if you aren't in the path of totality? You've got questions, we've got answers with the amazing Dr. Marin M. Anderson, Research Scientist, NASA JPL. All tha...
Intuitive Machines and a nuclear reactor for the Moon
Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists - March 29, 2024 11:21 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsChief Scientist for Intuitive Machines, Ben Bussey, joins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham to talk through IM-1, the first US soft landing on the Moon since 1972. They discuss the landing, the broken legs, experiments and whether the IM control room is really based on Star Trek. Sue also travels...
Intuitive Machines and a nuclear reactor for the Moon
Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists - March 29, 2024 11:21 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 8 ratingsChief Scientist for Intuitive Machines, Ben Bussey, joins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham to talk through IM-1, the first US soft landing on the Moon since 1972. They discuss the landing, the broken legs, experiments and whether the IM control room is really based on Star Trek. Sue also travels...
Intuitive Machines and a nuclear reactor for the Moon
Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists - March 29, 2024 11:21 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingChief Scientist for Intuitive Machines, Ben Bussey, joins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham to talk through IM-1, the first US soft landing on the Moon since 1972. They discuss the landing, the broken legs, experiments and whether the IM control room is really based on Star Trek. Sue also travels...
Ep. 713: Solar System Volcanoes
365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition - March 25, 2024 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsLast week was one of the most exciting meetings we’ve seen from the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, with hundreds of announcements and discoveries from various missions. One theme kept coming up, the Solar System is more volcanically active than we thought. Today, we’ll explore volcanism...
Penumbral Eclipse
StarDate - March 24, 2024 05:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 205 ratingsAnyone standing on the Earth-facing hemisphere of the Moon tonight would see a partial solar eclipse, with Earth covering part of the Sun’s disk. From here on Earth, however, all we’ll see is a penumbral lunar eclipse. The eclipse is so faint that few will notice a difference — the full Moon wil...
Moon and Denebola
StarDate - March 23, 2024 05:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 205 ratingsThe star that marks the tip of the lion’s tail appears to be a loner. It doesn’t have a companion star. And so far, it doesn’t appear to have any planets, either. But it does have the raw materials for making planets. And one or more worlds could have taken shape from those building blocks. Den...
Britain's First Astronaut
AWESOME ASTRONOMY - March 22, 2024 09:03 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsThis podcast extra is our full length interview with Dr Helen Sharman, Britain's First astronaut and the first woman to visit the Russian Mir Space Station in 1991.
Evening Mercury
StarDate - March 22, 2024 05:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 205 ratingsOnly two planets in our solar system are moonless: Mercury and Venus, the planets closest to the Sun. But 50 years ago this month, it looked like Mercury might have to drop off the list — but only for a while. The excitement began as Mariner 10 sped toward the planet, in 1974. Mariner was the f...
Moon and Regulus
StarDate - March 21, 2024 05:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 205 ratingsIt’s been more than half a century since the final Apollo mission left the Moon. But scientists are still learning from it. A few years ago, they started examining samples from Apollo 17 that hadn’t been touched before — a project that’s ongoing. They’re also analyzing observations made by instru...
A Small Search
StarDate - March 20, 2024 05:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 205 ratingsIt may be a cliche, but it’s true: If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. That’s certainly the case for the scientists hunting for dark matter. They’ve conducted many big experiments over the past few decades. So far, though, they haven’t found a thing. So the hunt is going smaller — loo...
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