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749-Earth Glow(537)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Earth Glow, Credit: NASA/ESA
In 1972 Apollo 16 astronauts took an ultraviolet image of the Earth from the Moon which shows that like the Sun ,the Earth too, has a faint corona ...

Bought by KCHW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jun 04, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
IE: Inside Europe, 6/2/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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On today's program: Erdogan triumphant: what next for Turkey? Spy ships and fishing tackle: a trip to Norway’s far north Plus, two summits in one w...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
This Asian American Life
From: Mateo Schimpf
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How are Asian-Americans fighting back against accusations of divided loyalties and the sense of “perpetual foreignness”?

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
New York City Rabbis Tackle the Israel Conversation
From: Henrietta McFarlane
Caption: Protestors gather in Washington Square Park to oppose the Israeli government’s proposed judicial reforms. April 16 2023. , Credit: Henrietta McFarlane
For weeks now, protests against the Israeli government have been taking place in Washington Square Park. Israel, the Jewish state, is at a tipping ...

  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 07:56
747-Alone or Not(535)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Solar Sail and Laser Power Interstellar Spacecraft, Credit: Breakthrough Starshot
In our Milky Way Galaxy alone there are probably 25 billion planets located within the habitable zone of its star where there could be air to breat...

Bought by KCHW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KICI Iowa City, KGLP and more


  • Added: May 21, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
746-Followups(534)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroids, Credit: NASA
Without followup data, many if not most of the Earth approaching objects would be lost as they move away from us leaving us with no idea when they ...

Bought by KCHW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KICI Iowa City, KGLP, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: May 14, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
745-100 Moons(533)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Schmidt Telescope Mt. Bigelow, Arizona, Credit: CSS/U. Arizona
A small telescope makes a substantial contribution to our knowledge of the celestial visitors to our neighborhood

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  • Added: May 07, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
744-Teddy’s Debut(532)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Opening the 60 Inch on Mt. Lemmon , Credit: CSS/U. Arizona
On a recent training night with Teddy Pruyne at the controls of our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona, this duo discovered six new Earth App...

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  • Added: Apr 30, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Fading Beauties: Streetcars of Desire Pt. 2
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Kolkata’s streets continue to clog with cars. The fate of an already established, cleaner transit option, teeters in the balance.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
The Fontwala
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Some of the typefaces designed by Rajeev Prakash for Indian scripts., Credit: Sandip Roy
Responsible for typefaces of all slants and bolds, Rajeev Prakash is India’s Fontwala!

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 04, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
740-Asteroid Billiards(528)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Vega's Asteroids, Credit: NASA
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART for short will test methods to make a dangerous asteroid miss Earth

Bought by KCHW, KICI Iowa City, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, KGLP and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
739-Comet Groller(527)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet ISON, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groller was asteroid hunting with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when he discovered his first...

Bought by KCHW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, KGLP and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
737-Collision(525)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid Breakup, Credit: NASA
The object which the 2.3 mile diameter Gault hit is likely to have been a third of a mile diameter space rock. This celestial crash left Gault with...

Bought by KCHW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
736-Home Wrecker(524)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: IDA, Credit: NASA
The extremely remote chance that a dangerous mountain sized space rock has our number on it is what keeps my team going to our four telescopes in t...

Bought by KCHW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KGLP, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 05, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
733-Lunar Space Rock(521)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Lunar Space Rock, Credit: NASA
Recently, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groller discovered an Earth approaching asteroid which has a speed consistent with it being ejecte...

Bought by KCHW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KGLP, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 12, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
IE: Inside Europe, 2/10/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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After the earthquake: in the wake of what is rapidly becoming one of the century’s most devastating natural disasters, we spend a half hour in the ...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
729-Close Again(517)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception: Small Space Rocks, Credit: Texas A&M
As asteroid hunters equipment and skills continue to improve we will be able to find and track some of these tiny impactors and perhaps be able to ...

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  • Added: Jan 15, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
728-Space Weather(516)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Earth Engulfed in Space Weather, Credit: NASA
Space is not all that far away. If a powerful solar eruption in 2012 had happened a week earlier, the blast of radiation would have caused wide spr...

Bought by KCHW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, KICI Iowa City, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
726-Close Space Rocks(514)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception:Small Impacting Asteroid, Credit: NASA
Since 1900 there have been 11 close approaches by asteroids larger than 300 feet in diameter. One of them, the Tunguska Object was about 400 feet i...

Bought by KCHW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP and more


  • Added: Dec 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
725-Mtn Ops(513)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Telescopes Mt. Lemmon, AZ, Credit: CSS/University of Arizona
My team, the Catalina Sky Survey, would not find a single asteroid without Steward Observatory's Mountain Lemmon Operations, or Mtn Ops for short. ...

Bought by KCHW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
724-Aten(512)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid, Credit: NASA
Aten Asteroids are stealthy space rocks which can be dim and hard to detect since for most of their path about the Sun their illuminated side is fa...

Bought by KCHW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, KGLP and more


  • Added: Dec 11, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
723-Very Close One(510)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception: Exploding Fireball Meteor, Credit: NASA
Ten hours and 46 minutes after my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard discovered a Toyota RAV4 sized space rock, now named 2018 UA, streaking...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
722-Close(509)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception: Asteroids Around Vega, Credit: NASA
Until recently the discovery of very close approaching asteroids was rare, however, due to improvements in telescopes, cameras, and computers aster...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Nov 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
716-Pair of PHAs(502)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Ida and Gaspra, Credit: NASA
Asteroid Hunters keep careful track of nearly 2,000 Potentially Hazardous Asteroids [PHAs] to make sure that they are no threat to humanity. The re...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
IE: Inside Europe, 10/14/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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Is the war in Ukraine compromising the security of NATO member states? - Boosting cyber security through ‘trusted connectivity’ - Political tensio...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:00

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