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743-Alex’s Catch(531)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

On a cold windy night, with clouds frustrating his search, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered 8 new celestial visitors while obs...

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

742-Cuban Meteorites(530)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

A large fireball meteor which exploded over Cuba produced a number of interesting results.

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

730-Busy Night(518)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Asteroid, Credit: -Dieter-Spannknebel-Getty-Images

On Halloween night while observing with the Catalina Sky Survey's 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona I discovered 21 space rocks streaking th...

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

698-Aliens?(484)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Planetary Alignment over Australian Radio Telescope, Credit: Graeme L. White & Glen Cozens (James Cook University)

Most Astronomers find it hard to believe that given perhaps a trillion planets in the Milky Way alone that our Earth is the only one which hosts li...

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

619-Apophis Campaign

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artists Conception Apophis, Credit: Dan Durda – FIAAA

Currently scientists, governments, and private citizens are preparing to mitigate a disaster caused by a large incoming space rock. To test techn...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, KSFR, WTIP, KGLP and more

613-Climate Change and Telescopes

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Recently, in the journal Nature Astronomy, a team of astronomers led by Dr. Faustine Cantalloube of the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy released...

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

612-Day and Night

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Most life on Earth is synchronized to the regular cycles of day and night. Until about a hundred years ago, the natural night sky was familiar to ...

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

597-Aging Satellites

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

If we don't place some new space weather observing satellites into orbit it is possible that you will wake up one day to no electricity, no cell p...

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

Infectious Diseases: What factors are at play during disease outbreaks?

From: Mateo Schimpf

In this pilot episode of the World Affairs podcast we are looking at diseases: how they are spread, how they are contained, how they are cured. We ...

The Arctic Council

From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio

In 1996, the high level intergovernmental Arctic Council was formed to promote cooperation and interaction among the Arctic states. In this episode...

180: Where Does Water Come From?

From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio

Where does water come from? We know from science that water evaporates from the ocean reservoir, is captured in clouds, fog and rain, descends to s...