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677-30 Years of Fireballs(457)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: 30 years of fireballs, Credit: NASA
Fireballs are meteors which become brighter than the planet Venus and can sometimes be seen in the daytime. If you are lucky to see a fireball send...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP and more


  • Added: Jan 16, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
675-Nuking An Asteroid(447)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception, Credit: Dan Durda
Tonight, even though the chances are extremely slim, an asteroid hunter could find a sizable asteroid on a collision course with planet Earth. If w...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 13
674-Asteroid Homestead(446)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid Mining, Credit: NASA
In the future one can envision a space mining family boarding a descendent of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch Vehicle for a trip into low Earth orb...

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


  • Added: Dec 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
673-Christmas Comet(437)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Halley's Comet, Credit: NASA
On December 25, 2017, while searching for Earth approaching asteroids in the constellation of Virgo, the Universe gave my Catalina Sky Survey team...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, WTIP and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
672-Meteor Whispers(427)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fireball Exploding, Credit: NASA
Recent scientific studies have begun to shed light on the interesting mystery of how the small number of what we now call electrophonic meteors pro...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
670-Laser Surfing(364)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Laser Sail, Credit: Project Breakthrough
Laser propelled ultra light space probes could be sent to explore nearby worlds.

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


  • Added: Nov 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
668-Dry Sands(420)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Mars, Credit: NASA
Intriguing features which change with the Martian seasons mimic flows of liquid water on the Earth's surface.

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


  • Added: Nov 14, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
666-Red Dwarf Planets(417)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Gliese 887C, Credit: Mark Garlick/ University of Göttingen
Earth like planets are being discovered circling the most common type of star in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy.

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


  • Added: Oct 31, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
665-Odd Ball(416)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid Shattering, Credit: NASA
A small asteroid soars into the lonely space high above and below the plane of our solar system.

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


  • Added: Oct 24, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
664-Extraterrestrial Whales(410)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Europa, Credit: NASA
Perhaps the reason that we have not detected alien civilizations on distant worlds is because they exist in oceans covered by miles of radiation ab...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
663-Alien Rock?(409)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid Illustration, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
A rock from another solar system is likely to have streaked by Earth before heading back into interstellar space.

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


  • Added: Oct 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
662-Earth's Pet Rock(408)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid Eros, Credit: NASA
On it's gravitational leash, Earth's pet space rock, 2016 HO3, accompanies us at a distance of between 38 and 100 times the Moon's distance from Ea...

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


  • Added: Oct 03, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
657-Plant Companionship(407)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson happily displays the progress of the Advanced Astroculture experiment aboard the International Space Station in July 2002., Credit: NASA
On Earth, human life is enabled by plants which provide us with calories, vitamins, fuel, medicines, and oxygen to breathe. In addition, recent sci...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
654-Night Vision (401)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Experience the wonders of the Universe first hand using your night vision.

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
653-Biggest Ear (300)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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China's new big ear will be the most sensitive receiver to search for signals from alien civilizations.

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP and more


  • Added: Jul 31, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Are the Olympics Worth It? Athletes and Historians Weigh In
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this week’s episode, we take a look at what it takes (and costs) to host the world’s largest sporting event during a global crisis. We hear from...

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


  • Added: Jul 15, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
649-30 Days of Traffic
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
During a recent 30 day period asteroid hunters spotted 88 small space rocks passing through our neighborhood. Their diameters ranged from the leng...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP and more


  • Added: Jul 03, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
648-Smoky Nights
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Smith Telescope McDonald Observatory, Credit: McDonald Observatory
Until recently smoky nights at the observatory were rare. Now they have become more common place as wild fires continue to devastate portions of th...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Jun 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Chomolungma Day
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Mount Everest, Credit: Stephen Alter
Every May 29th is Mt. Everest Day.

  • Added: Jun 15, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
646-Young Martian Volcanoes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Recent explosive volcanic deposit around a fissure of the Cerberus Fossae system. , Credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS/The Murray Lab
Relatively recent volcanic activity observed on Mars suggests that where subsurface martian magma and frozen water meet is where microbial life cou...

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  • Added: Jun 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
645-Shrinking Stratosphere
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: A view of Earth's atmosphere., Credit: NASA
As a result of human caused increases in green house gases the troposphere is expanding and the stratosphere is shrinking. Between 1980 and 2018 t...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP and more


  • Added: Jun 04, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
643-Space Vehicles
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: SpaceX Starship, Credit: SpaceX
New Rocket engines will revolutionize space travel to the Moon and Mars.

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  • Added: May 22, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
642-Vesta Fragment
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The Asteroid Vesta, Credit: NASA
An impacting object hit the asteroid Vesta making a 10 mile diameter crater and in the process blasted loose fragments which have been orbiting th...

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


  • Added: May 16, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
When Your Country Doesn’t Trust You (AAPI Heritage Month Story)
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, we hear from US Congressman Andy Kim about how the power competition between China and the US creates fear and anxiety on the home...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: May 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Facing Our Climate Future
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we talk about climate policy with former California Governor Jerry Brown, oceanographer Sylvia Earle and former Colombian president Juan...

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


  • Added: May 05, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4

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