Best AWESOME ASTRONOMY Podcasts (2025)

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Awesome Astronomy - JWST Finds its 1st Exoplanet 10:05

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH4uczqmhQ0 From Jan 20, 2023. The James Webb Space Telescope took time away from finding the earliest galaxies or imaging incredible nebulae to test out its planet hunting capabilities. To say it was immediately successful would be an understatement. JWST is showing us that it can do almost anything in astronomy and…

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Paul in Festival Land 1:35:13

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A bumper end of summer episode with Paul out in the world of science outreach and communication in a Summer music festival. There's also discussion of the new Astronomer Royal, China's moon programme, Starship and a deep dive on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.By Awesome Astronomy

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 765: Rockets vs The Environment 35:52

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NupNyOy4-0 Streamed live on Sep 22, 2025. We don’t launch a lot of rockets every year, so their impact on the environment is minimal compared to other forms of transportation. But that number is steadily increasing with rates that we’ll have to take seriously. What’s the current and future impact of rockets on the e…

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Travelers in the Night Eps. 335E & 336E: Returnee & 2 Suns 6:05

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Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( @Nmcanopus ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. travelersinthenight.org From May 2025. Today's 2 topics: - On May 5, 2014 when I discovered 2014 JO25 with the Catalina Sky Survey's 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Ari…

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Cosmic Savannah Ep. 74: Simulating Cosmic Nurseries 1:03:09

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Hosted by Dr. Jacinta Delhaize, Dr. Tshiamiso Makwela & Dr. Daniel Cunnama. This episode of Cosmic Savannah features Professor James Chibueze, a distinguished professor at the University of South Africa, discussing his research on star formation using radio astronomy. During the episode, Prof Chibueze discusses his journey to become a professional …

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EVSN - Twinkling Heart of the Milky Way Spotted 10:50

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From May 22, 2020. Join us today as we talk about radio transmitters found in the twinkling heart of the Milky Way. Then we'll look at an asteroid that has a comet-like tail. And finally, Bennu is about to be sampled by OSIRIS-Rex, and we helped make that happen! We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, …

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Cheap Astronomy - Dear CA Ep. 124: Aliens & Alien Worlds 14:25

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Are we alone, and if so can we have all the planets? Dear Cheap Astronomy – Alien diplomacy? A recent paper by John Gertz called Interstellar Diplomacy suggests some kind of contact with aliens is inevitable, which seems reasonable with respect to some kind of radio transmission, but the paper then goes on to suggest that contact might involve a ro…

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Ask A Spaceman Ep. 256: What Can Gravitational Waves Teach Us About the Big Bang? 36:10

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Echoes of the Big Bang! What are some sources of gravitational waves that aren’t black holes? How did inflation create gravitational waves? How can we possibly detect them? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/pmsutter All episodes: http://www.AskASpaceman.com Watch on YouTube: http:…

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 764: Cleared For Launch! 33:42

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GhRypmWaCY Streamed live September 17, 2025. This week, we look at the process behind rockets getting licensed to launch, and everyone around the pad getting notified to stay away as T-0 approaches. (Can you say "errant boat"?) We have a saying around here: “One does not simply book a return trip from a rocket launc…

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Travelers in the Night Eps. 333E & 334E: Worth Tracking & Backwards 6:05

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Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( @Nmcanopus ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. travelersinthenight.org From April 2025. Today's 2 topics: - Greg Leonard was observing with our team's 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon in Arizona when he discovered a r…

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ASTRO Man - Dark Sky Education 6:24

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Episode 9. “ASTROMAN: the Dark Sky Guardian” is a podcast channel that aims to explore popular science in multiple disciplines and research on interdisciplinary approaches, such as sustainability, dark-sky protection, astrophotography, space exploration, astronomy innovation, inclusive science communication, and STEAM Education by integrating scien…

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EVSN - Pulsating Stars, Watery Plumes From Europa & Pluto’s Haze 54:55

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From May 14, 2020. Join us today as we talk about one of my favorite areas of research, pulsating stars, and how researchers have used data from NASA’s TESS mission to understand them. We also look at new evidence for watery plumes erupting from Jupiter’s moon Europa. And finally, we discuss how the SOFIA observatory has found clues for why Pluto’s…

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Actual Astronomy - Featuring Constellation Taurus 6:05

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Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan. [email protected] Episode 500! The Actual Astronomy Podcast presents Constellation Taurus. In this episode Chris and Shane celebrate their 500th episode by exploring all the nebulae and star clusters in Taurus. Taurus the Bull charges, head down toward Orion. T…

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Guide To Space - Oldest Rock From Earth Was Found On The Moon (Of All Places) 9:52

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h_ckjhGdjs From Feb 2, 2019. Geologists think they’ve found the oldest Earth rock ever seen. And they found it in one of the last places you’d ever suspect, on the Moon. When the Apollo 14 astronauts returned their lunar samples back to Earth, they were carrying one rock that had formed on Earth 4 to 4.1 billion yea…

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Deep Astronomy - How to Find the Orion Nebula 6:18

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3287bkIOiM&ab_channel=DeepAstronomy Hosted by Tony Darnell. From Oct 22, 2024. Your Sky Tonight is produced by Deep Astronomy and made possible by members of this YouTube Channel. Thank You! In this episode, we look at how to locate the Orion Nebula in the night sky. We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of As…

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 763: Interstellar Comets 31:12

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op5hkKFWFlM Season 19. Streamed live Sep 8, 2025. Welcome to the first episode of our 19th season! This week we look at objects coming from other solar systems that come passing on by our Sun. During the summer hiatus the 3rd interstellar object was discovered: Comet 3I/ATLAS! So now we have 3 different interstellar …

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Travelers in the Night Eps. 331E & 332E: Asteroid Defense & Another Close One 6:05

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Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( @Nmcanopus ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. travelersinthenight.org From April 2025. Today's 2 topics: - In 2013 a 56 foot diameter space rock exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia releasing the energy of 450 kilotons…

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NOIR Lab - Fast X-Ray Transients & The Deaths Of Massive Stars 11:21

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Since their first detection, powerful bursts of X-rays from distant galaxies, known as fast X-ray transients (FXTs), have mystified astronomers. FXTs have historically been elusive events, occurring at vast distances away from Earth and only lasting seconds to hours. Einstein Probe (EP), launched in 2024, is dedicated to observing transient events …

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EVSN - Rockets Make Bad Neighbors 35:09

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From September 3, 2025. In this week's episode, we take a look at the impact SpaceX launches from the Space Coast will have on their competitors and those living, working, and going to school near Kennedy and Cape Canaveral. We also look at a bunch of new science discoveries, including the origins of Ryugu & Bennu, the solar system shocked itself, …

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Space Stories - Where Day Meets Night: The Equinox 9:30

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Hosted by Avivah Yamani, our Director. We are exploring the word Equinox. We start by having the definitions, why “equal night” isn’t quite exact, how spring/autumn flip between hemispheres, and a whirlwind tour of equator monuments from Pontianak to Macapá, Cayambe, Kayabwe, Nanyuki, Ilhéu das Rolas, and Bonjol. We've added a new way to donate to …

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Guide To Space - What Does the Universe Do When We're Not Looking? 9:22

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1otYvmqp6w Hosted by Fraser Cain. From Jul 19, 2016. Some of the greatest discoveries in astronomy have been made by watching how the skies change over time. Today we talk about these techniques, and an observatory that will revolutionize time-based astronomy. We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy…

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Ask A Spaceman Ep. 255: How Do The Biggest Stars Get So Big? 33:34

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How do we measure the sizes of stars? What are the biggest ones today, and how big could stars have gotten in the past? Is there any way for a star to cheat and get even bigger? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/pmsutter All episodes: http://www.AskASpaceman.com Watch on YouTube: …

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 155: Dwarf Stars 29:25

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http://www.astronomycast.com/archive/ From September 14, 2009. We think we live near an average star, but that’s not the case at all. Compared to most stars in the Universe, the Sun is a giant! Let’s look at the small end of the stellar spectrum, to stars with a fraction of the size and mass of our own Sun. There are many ways that a star can get s…

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Travelers in the Night Eps. 329 & 330: Near Neighbor & Comet Johnson 6:05

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Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( @Nmcanopus ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. travelersinthenight.org From November 2024. Today's 2 topics: - My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls was using the new hundred million pixel camera on our team's …

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Awesome Astronomy - September Part 1: Paul in Festival Land 1:37:13

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Paul Hill, Ralph Wilkins and Dr. Jenifer “Dr. Dust” Millard host. Damien Phillips, John Wildridge and Dustin Ruoff produce. [Editor’s note: This episode is 1 hour 37 minutes long.] A bumper end of summer episode with Paul out in the world of science outreach and communication in a Summer music festival. There’s also discussion of the new Astronomer…

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EVSN - Europa May Have Enough Heat for Seafloor Volcanoes 19:55

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From May 27, 2021. Jupiter’s moon Europa, an icy world with a subsurface ocean that interests astrobiologists, may actually be hot enough to melt the interior rock and create volcanoes on the ocean floor. Plus, Ryugu, giant planets, fossil discoveries, Martian glaciers, and this week’s What’s Up! We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astro…

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Actual Astronomy - Observer’s Calendar For September 30:33

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Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan. [email protected] - Sept 1 - Aurigids ZHR=10 related to Comet Keiss The comet was discovered by Carl Clarence Kiess at Lick Observatory on a photographic plate obtained in the morning hours of 6 July 1911 with the Crocker photographic telescope. The comet appea…

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Cheap Astronomy - Dear Cheap Astro Ep. 123: The Big Questions 14:25

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Asking questions and not always answering them. Is there hope? Well, sure. The question arises where the Drake Equation, aiming to quantify the likely number of detectable intelligent civilizations out there includes a term representing the inherent risk of any intelligent civilization destroying itself. It is just a risk, could be low could be hig…

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Exoplanet Radio Ep. 41: Exoplanet Secondary Eclipses: Catching a Planet in the Shadows 6:24

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RucWv35XwD0 Hosted by Tony Darnell. From Oct 11, 2023. Over the course of this show, we’ve talked many, many times about the Transit Method for detecting exoplanets. It is simply the measure of a star's decrease in brightness as the star passes through our line of sight. This once difficult measurement has now become…

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 126: From Skeptics Guide With Questions 46:08

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http://www.astronomycast.com/archive/ From February 9, 2009. This week Bob Novella of the Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast is going to pepper Pamela with questions, testing her ability to leap from tides to gravitational waves to Higgs bosons. We’ll see where this takes us on this skeptical journey through what is known and what we’re trying …

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Travelers in the Night Eps. 327 & 328: Suddenly Bright & The Heat is On 6:05

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Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( @Nmcanopus ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. travelersinthenight.org From October & November 2024. Today's 2 topics: - An example that a relatively large space rock can approach the Earth suddenly started with what…

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UNAWE Space Scoop - A Mysterious Notification From a Dying Massive Star 6:37

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In January 2025, astronomers woke up to an alert of a mysterious event that occurred 2.8 billion light years away from Earth. As such things go, this was fairly close to Earth and was an opportunity for detailed observation of the event’s evolution. It was a powerful burst of X-rays, known as a fast X-ray transient or FXT. This burst was named ‘EP …

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EVSN - Dual Quasars, Tidal Disruption Events & a Halo For Andromeda 12:19

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From August 31, 2020. Join us today as we examine observations for dual quasars in the process of merging and a star being torn apart by its supermassive black hole. Plus, Hubble data used to map a halo around the Andromeda galaxy. We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit…

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Space Stories - Galaxies Don’t Crash, They Remix 8:09

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Hosted by our Director, Avivah Yamani. Today's podcast guides you through the slow-motion meeting of the Milky Way and Andromeda. Learn why stars mostly miss each other, how gravity sculpts tidal tails, and how colliding gas and dust spark starbursts—turning two spirals into one remixed galaxy. Epic? Yes. Doomsday? Nope. We've added a new way to do…

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Guide to Space - An Intermediate Mass Black Hole Found in the Milky Way. 100,000 Times the Mass of the Sun 9:43

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iOb8kC0OuM From Sep 8, 2017. Astronomers have been searching for mid-weight black holes, and now they’ve found one, right here in the Milky Way. We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donat…

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Deep Astronomy - A Journey into a Black Hole Collision 9:48

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIfHgFLe4_U Hosted by Tony Darnell. From Apr 26, 2016. Black holes have been largely theoretical until the LIGO observations announced earlier this year. Thanks to those observations, we now have another way to study and observe these amazing celestial objects. Original Music by Mark C. Petersen, Loch Ness Production…

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 84: Getting Around the Solar System 35:20

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From April 14, 2008. Have you ever wondered what it takes to get a spacecraft off the Earth and into space. And how managers at NASA can actually navigate a spacecraft to another planet? And how does a gravity assist work? And how do they get things into orbit? And how do they land? So many questions… We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of …

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Travelers in the Night Eps. 325 & 326: Marrakech & Asteroids 2016 6:03

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Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( @Nmcanopus ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. travelersinthenight.org From October 2024. Today's 2 topics: - A location 9,000 feet above sea level in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco is ideal for an asteroid hunter si…

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The Cosmic Savannah - Ep. 73: Burping Black Holes 37:32

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Hosted by Dr. Jacinta Delhaize, Dr. Tshiamiso Makwela & Dr. Daniel Cunnama. In this episode of The Cosmic Savannah, our hosts speak with Dr. Eli Kasai from the University of Namibia. Dr. Kasai shares his inspiring journey of establishing the astronomy department at the University of Namibia, and his work on blazars using SALT and the Cherenkov Tele…

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EVSN - Stars and Planets May Grow Up Together! 10:41

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From October 8, 2020. New images taken with the ALMA Observatory show a young proto-stellar disk with the rings and gaps of planetary formation growing together, once again challenging our preconceptions. And other research into stellar formation adds heavy metals to the mix to match models to observations. Plus, an old, metal-poor galaxy halo. We'…

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Actual Astronomy - Listener Emails 45:51

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Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan. [email protected] The Actual Astronomy Podcast presents Listener Emails. In this episode we talk & read several listener emails including Observing Saturn, Equipment reports, telescope making, public outreach, a supernova photo and more! Our emailers: - Leonid …

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Awesome Astronomy - How Realistic is a Space Elevator? 12:37

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu9-_p7m-4c Paul Hill, Ralph Wilkins and Dr. Jenifer “Dr. Dust” Millard host. Damien Phillips, John Wildridge and Dustin Ruoff produce. From Nov 18, 2022. An elevator into space - the science fiction future! No more explosive rockets - ride an elevator into orbit and open up the solar system for human exploration. Bu…

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Ask A Spaceman Ep. 254: How Do Variable Stars, You Know, Vary? 27:15

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What powers Cepheid variable stars? What about Mira variables and pulsating stars? And are there variable stars that don’t actually vary at all? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/pmsutter All episodes: http://www.AskASpaceman.com Watch on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/PaulMSutte…

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 221: Geomorphology 30:11

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http://www.astronomycast.com/archive/ From February 21, 2011. When we look around our planet, we see a huge variety in landforms: mountains, valleys, plateaus, and more. Continents rise and fall over the eons, providing geologists with a history of the planet’s evolution. The study of these changes is known as geomorphology, and the lessons we lear…

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Travelers in the Night Eps. 809 & 810: How Close Can An Asteroid Approach & Humans Can 6:03

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Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( @Nmcanopus ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. travelersinthenight.org From August 2024. Today's 2 topics: - The Earth Minimum Orbit Intersection Distance or Earth MOID for short is the closest an asteroid can come t…

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ASTROMAN - Dark Sky Initiative at Home 7:19

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Episode 8. “ASTROMAN: the Dark Sky Guardian” is a podcast channel that aims to explore popular science in multiple disciplines and research on interdisciplinary approaches, such as sustainability, dark-sky protection, astrophotography, space exploration, astronomy innovation, inclusive science communication, and STEAM Education by integrating scien…

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EVSN - Cool Worlds, Exploding Stars, & an Asteroid That Missed Earth 12:10

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From August 20, 2020. Join us today as we look at how citizen science helped discover 100 cool worlds nearby. Then we examine evidence that exploding stars may have contributed to a mass extinction on Earth. Speaking of mass extinctions, an asteroid narrowly missed our planet last weekend. Because… 2020. We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days …

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Guide to Space - Chemicals for Life Found on Enceladus 8:48

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgQexNb0_0s From Apr 15, 2017. Hosted by Fraser Cain. Did you hear that NASA just announced an important discovery in the quest to find life on other places in the Solar System? In this quick episode, Fraser details what NASA found on Saturn’s Enceladus and Jupiter’s Europa, and what it means for the search for life.…

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Cheap Astronomy - Dear CA #122: Other Planets 14:17

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Strange new worlds. Dear Cheap Astronomy – How big can rocky planets and how small can gas giants get? Well there is some data, so we don’t have to talk in hypotheticals. There’s a rocky planet with about 40 times Earth mass and about 3 and a half times Earth’s diameter, which is about 85% of Neptune’s diameter. So, it’s a mighty big rocky planet t…