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A bottom up solution for saving rainforests worldwide.

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 2
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We are the universe experiencing itself, as told by a world class student of the cosmos.

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 57:56
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
There’s no question that humanity is making fast progress in understanding, cataloging and classifying planets around other stars. So far we’ve fo...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 04:04
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Human beings have discovered over five thousand five hundred exoplanets. Over 80 percent of them have orbits shorter than 50 days which would place...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 04:37
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Astronomers have recently concluded an observation study of the closest exoplanet to Earth, Proxima Centauri b and found that the planet does not t...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 04:48
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series
My guest today, Dr. Noah Whiteman, tells us to scratch beneath the surface of a coffee bean, a red pepper flake, a poppy seed, a mold spore, a foxg...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2023
  • Length: 35:16
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series
It is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over the long course of its history. Elemental reve...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2023
  • Length: 41:55
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
One of the most exciting exoplanetary systems discovered so far, and one we’ve talked about many times on Exoplanet Radio, is TRAPPIST-1, a system ...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2023
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Today, we are going to visit TrES-2b, a planet that is so dark that it reflects less than one percent of the sunlight falling on it. How can a plan...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Most of the 5000 exoplanets discovered so far have been found using methods that don’t actually see the planet at all. Brightness dimmings and sta...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2023
  • Length: 03:52
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
We live in a golden age of exoplanet discovery. Not only are we searching for and finding new worlds around other stars all the time, but as our t...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 04:01
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
A team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c, which is one of seven rocky planets orbiting an ultr...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Astronomers estimate that there are more free roaming planets in our galaxy than there are planets in orbit around stars. In fact, rogue exoplanet...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
One of the big questions we are trying to answer in exoplanet astronomy is: Just how common are habitable planets? We already know that exoplanets...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Kelt-9b is a gas giant planet that orbits a star 670 light-years from Earth. It is so close to its star that its dayside temperature is 7,800 degre...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Whenever humans start cataloging and classifying things, whether it be plants, animals, stars or exoplanets, we naturally become interested in the...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
The launch and deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope in July 2022, marked the beginning of a new era in exoplanet science. Never before had...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 04:07
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Tucked inside a quiet solar system, in the area of sky outlined by the constellation Aquarius, orbits a planet named TRAPPIST-1d, the third of seve...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 04:07
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
One of the reasons we’ve created Exoplanet Radio is that Exoplanets are awesome. The idea that there are planets in orbit around stars outside our...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2023
  • Length: 03:48
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
This planet, VHS 1256 b, has recently been observed by the James Webb Space Telescope and it is a very interesting world. It is not like any of th...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2023
  • Length: 04:29
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
In our galaxy, there are many planets that wander alone in the dark, without a star to orbit. These rogue planets could have formed from the same m...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2023
  • Length: 03:59
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
To get anywhere in the galaxy at anything resembling a reasonable time, we need to go fast - some fraction of light speed would be best. Proxima C...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2023
  • Length: 04:33
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
A massive, Jupiter-sized exoplanet has been discovered orbiting a small, low-mass star and this discovery is challenging theories on how planets fo...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2023
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Our galaxy likely holds hundreds of billions of planets around other stars but when and how did we begin finding them? What was the first exoplane...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2023
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
We are a species of wonder. We have always looked up at the stars and wondered if we are alone in the universe. Are there other worlds out there, w...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 24, 2023
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 1