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Seeing Exoplanets Directly
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
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
JWST Observes a New Type of Brown Dwarf
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
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
Life in the Dark: How Moons of Rogue Planets Could Harbor Life
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
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
Constant Wonder - The Never-bored Naturalist Who Plumbed the Ocean Depths
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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In the depth of the sea, where the sun is powerless to send a single ray of light, there live many strange beings. Of these sea folk, we know nothi...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Aug 25, 2023
  • Length: 52:52
  • Purchases: 2
How Long Would it Take To Travel to Proxima Centauri b?
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
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
Giant Planet Orbiting a Small Star
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
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...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 24, 2023
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 1
The First Exoplanets Ever Found
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
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...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 24, 2023
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 1
How Do We Find Exoplanets?
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
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
WASP-39b: A Hot and Amazing Jupiter-like Planet
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
Caption: Uncover Secrets Beyond the Solar System , Credit: Deep Astronomy
WASP-39 b is a hot and puffy planet with a mass roughly one-quarter that of Jupiter and a diameter 1.3 times greater than Jupiter. Its extreme puff...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 24, 2023
  • Length: 03:10
  • Purchases: 1
Constant Wonder - Family Discovers that Nazi Grandfather Aided French Villagers
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Burkhard Bilger shares the surprising truth about his grandfather's life and service in Hitler's Germany, it's the latest episode of the Constant W...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 3
TRAPPIST-1: A System Full of Hope
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Aside from our own solar system, one of the most studied stellar systems lies about 40 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Aquar...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 1
Evidence of an Exoplanet in Another Galaxy
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Welcome to Exoplanet Radio, I’m Tony Darnell. Astronomers have found evidence of a possible planet outside of our Milky Way galaxy. If confirmed, t...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 04:03
The First Exoplanet of James Webb Space Telescope
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
The Webb Space Telescope observed this planet as it passed between the telescope and the host star, LHS 475. By watching the spectra of that star ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 1
The Exoplanet that Shouldn't Exist
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Astronomers have found a planet around a red giant star that should have been destroyed, yet it still exists, leaving astronomers to wonder why the...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 1
Proxima Centauri b: The Closest Exoplanet To Us
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Did you know that the closest star to us has a planet around it that may be habitable? In 2016 astronomers discovered a planet around the red-dwarf...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 1
JWST Measures Temperature of Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1b
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Of all the exoplanets we’ve discovered so far, the most exciting when it comes to finding life elsewhere, reside in the system known as TRAPPIST-1.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 1
Exoplanets Are Everywhere
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Did you know that the discovery of other planets in orbit around other stars is a very recent one? Only 25 years ago, we had no idea there were an...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 13, 2023
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 1
Rogue Planets: Not All Exoplanets Orbit Stars
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
One of the most exciting recent discoveries in astronomy has been the existence of planets around other stars.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 13, 2023
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 1
What is an Exoplanet?
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
There are many types of planets around other stars

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 12, 2023
  • Length: 08:20
  • Purchases: 1
Welcome to Exoplanet Radio
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Exoplanet Radio takes you on a journey to the farthest and coolest planets in the galaxy. Every day we will share with you some of the most amazing...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 12, 2023
  • Length: 01:51
  • Purchases: 1
Science unscripted 08/08/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: When (if ever) do you stop the exchange of basic research?

Bought by Central Florida Public Media, WXDU, and WFHB


  • Added: Aug 11, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Constant Wonder - Dreams and the Deep Mysteries of the Unconscious Mind
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Sleep and dreaming. It's when the unconscious mind can process events, solve problems and organize memories. But a mere 20 years ago, little consen...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 10, 2023
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 1
10-17: Vice to Virtue: From Carbon Crisis to Carbon Farming, 8/16/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: John Wick
How does a virtue become a vice? How does a basic building block of life turn into a threat to life? And how do you turn that vice back into a virt...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
What’s it like to own an electric car?
From: Possibly
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We did it. My family finally bought an electric car. What’s it like? Should you get one too? Here to help me explain is my husband, Ryan T Conaty.

Bought by PRX Remix, Raven Radio, WRFA-LP, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 07, 2023
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 4
Why are we breaking records for the hottest day on record?
From: Possibly
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When people talk about climate change, it’s often described as something that might happen in the future. But, we’ve been breaking records for the ...

Bought by Raven Radio, WRFA-LP, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 07, 2023
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 3

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