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817-Interstellar Travelers In The Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception of a Rogue Planet, Credit: NASA/JPL/R. Hurt(Caltech-IPAC)
As astronomers learned to measure the distance to the stars and how the laws of Physics works with rockets, it seemed that travel between the stars...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KRWG, and KGLP


  • Added: Sep 22, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
790-Vivian’s Debut
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Earth and Asteroid, Credit: Texas A&M
My new Catalina Sky Survey Teammate Vivian Carjaval was scheduled for three 13h long winter nights for her first solo observing run on our Schmidt ...

Bought by KCHW, Raven Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
772-M31 Our Neighbor's Surprise
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Andromeda, Unexpected, Credit: Marcel Drechsler, Xavier Strottner and Yann Sainty
Marcel Drechsler, Xavier Strottner, and Yann Sainty’s image of our neighboring galaxy, M31, in Andromeda won the 10,000 British pound Astronomer P...

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


  • Added: Nov 12, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
756-Nice PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists conception asteroid Impact 65 million years ago, Credit: NASA (Don Davis)
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Cancer with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizon...

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


  • Added: Jul 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
708-Guard Down(494)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Earth, Credit: NASA
In 2018, July and August were cloudy and rainy in both Arizona and Hawaii sidelining the worlds two most productive asteroid hunting surveys. A cos...

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


  • Added: Aug 21, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
707-Ringed Dynamo(493)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Saturn, Credit: NASA
Even though humans have been aware of the planet Saturn from from the dawn of history this beautiful object still offers mysteries for us to explore.

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


  • Added: Aug 14, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
705-One Half Inch(491)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Hubble Image. Sharp star images., Credit: NASA
Fuzzy, spread out, asteroid images due to atmospheric and or equipment produced distortions can cause important objects to slip through an asteroid...

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
704-Mini-Moons(490)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Earth Captures Mini-Moon, Credit: K. Teramura UHIFA
There are likely to be hundreds smaller than softball sized and perhaps several dozen football to beachball sized, natural Earth mini moons, which ...

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


  • Added: Jul 24, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
703-Martian Water(489)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Mars, Credit: NASA
Exciting new research indicates that there could be a lake of liquid water beneath the south Martian polar cap. Further research will be required t...

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


  • Added: Jul 17, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
702-20 Years(488)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroids, Credit: NASA
It has been 20 years since the world woke up to the news that a half mile diameter asteroid, 1997 XF11, discovered by Space Watch on Kitt Peak, had...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, WTIP, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Jul 10, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
700-Martian Storms(486)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Martian Dust Storm, Credit: NASA
In a few weeks ,as Earth and Mars moved closer together, a dust storm engulfed most of the red planet making it impossible to see its surface featu...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, RADIOLEX, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jun 26, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
697-Double Trouble(483)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Binary Asteroid, Credit: ESA
Asteroid hunters have discovered a strange asteroid pair. How they came to be together and what humans would do if such a large double trouble obje...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Raven Radio, KGLP, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Jun 05, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
696-Botswana Fragment(482)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fireball Exploding, Credit: NASA
An object is tracked in outer space, seen to explode in our atmosphere, and had a fragment of it discovered on the ground. Its analysis will help h...

Bought by KCHW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: May 29, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
694-Comet Catalina(479)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Johnson, Credit: CSS/NASA/U.Arizona
Comet C/2018 M1 (Catalina) is eternal in the sense that it will likely wander the vast space between the stars in our Milky Way Galaxy until the en...

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


  • Added: May 15, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
693-Comet Leonard III(478)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Christensen, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard knew he had bagged his third comet when he spotted an unknown fuzzy object with a broad tail moving th...

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


  • Added: May 08, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
692-Lonely Fragment(475)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A 2000 foot diameter space rock has stories to tell about violent events long ago. Asteroid hunters are eager to track this huge collision fragment...

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


  • Added: May 01, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
690-Peek A Boo Asteroid(468)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist's concept of what binary asteroid 2017 YE5 might look like. The two objects showed striking differences in radar reflectivity, which could indicate that they have different surface properties., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
A strange asteroid plays hide and seek with frustrated astronomers.

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


  • Added: Apr 17, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
681-17,000 to Go(455)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: NEO Surveyor will be based on NEOCam (above), a finalist in the previous round of the Discovery program, and will feature an infrared telescope to look for near Earth objects., Credit: Credit: NASA/JPL
So far asteroid hunters have discovered about 8,000 of the 25,000, large, potentially hazardous asteroids, suspected to exist, leaving 17,000 more ...

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


  • Added: Feb 13, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
678-Greg's Comet(425)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Lovejoy, Credit: NASA
Greg's comet comes into our neighborhood once per human lifetime and spends most of it's time in the lonely space high above or far below the rest ...

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


  • Added: Jan 22, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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