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808-Global Auroras on Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Ultraviolet View of Mars from MAVEN Satellite , Credit: NASA
When the Earth enters a stream of high speed protons and other charged particles in the solar wind or our home planet is impacted by a solar corona...

Bought by KCHW, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Jul 22, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Return of the Native with Bill Shanabruch, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Bill Shanabruch leads Conservation Landscaping Workshop.
Bill Shanabruch left his job as regional biologist for the Piedmont with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. It was over a boondoggl...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 26:08
789-Asteroid With A Tail
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet ISON, Credit: HST
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Josh Hogan was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Taurus with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona wh...

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


  • Added: Mar 10, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
775-3 Close Ones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Earth,Moon, and Asteroid, Credit: NASA and Texas A&M
During a six hour period three small space rocks passed through the Earth-Moon system. At discovery 2023 TO4 was in Pegasus, 2023 TD7 was in Aries...

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  • Added: Dec 03, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
767- A Really Tough Customer
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Nucleus, Credit: NASA
The more we learn about 322P/SOHO the stranger it becomes.

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  • Added: Oct 08, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
765 Bright Fireball
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Bright Fireball, Credit: Bill Stewart
Bright fireball meteors sometimes rain pieces of themselves onto the ground for meteorite hunters to discover.

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  • Added: Sep 24, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
764 Green Airglow
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Green Airglow Over Colorado, Credit: Aaron Watson
The natural night sky is alive with its own lights. In addition to celestial sources often there is natural night sky airglow powered by space wea...

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
762-Kacper’s PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid IDA, Credit: NASA
An object like 2023 MN5 impacts Earth once every 90,000 years or so creating a crater 5 miles in diameter an 1800 feet deep in sedimentary rock. 5...

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  • Added: Sep 03, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
761-Alessandra’s Duo
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Lunar Impact, Credit: NASA
In less than two hours my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Allesandra Serrano discovered two small fast moving space rocks. Both of them passed through...

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  • Added: Aug 27, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
760- Discover an Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Dimorphos, Credit: NASA
Carson Fuls, one of my Catalina Sky Survey teammates, is leading the effort that will allow you to join our NASA funded adventure in asteroid hunt...

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  • Added: Aug 20, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
759-Number 7
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fireball, Credit: NASA
Hungarian astronomer and geography teacher Krisztián Sárneczky was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Lynx with 0.6m (24 inch) telescope at...

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
758-Weird Supernova
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
An extremely wide field of view camera, the Zwicky Transient Facility, operated by Caltech on Palomar Mountain in California is able to take images...

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  • Added: Aug 06, 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...

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  • Added: Jul 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
755-Geyser of Life-Maybe
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Enceladus spews water from cracks in its south polar crust., Credit: NASA/JPL-CALTECH/SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE
In 2023 the James Webb Space Telescope spotted a geyser of water vapor extending more than 80% of the Earth’s diameter erupting from Saturn’s moon ...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
754-Very Fast Moving Objects In The Night Sky
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception of Earth and a Small Asteroid, Credit: NASA
Very small fast moving asteroids pass through our solar system.About once a month an object like 2023 KU4 enters our atmosphere, releases the ener...

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  • Added: Jul 09, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Episode 1: Mapping the Coastal Oceans
From: David Levin
Series: Deep Soundings: Stories from the Ocean Floor
Piece image
When it comes to mapping the seafloor, the hardest spots to see are the ones just off the coast. In this episode, find out why that's the case—and ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 14:52
722-Close(509)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception: Asteroids Around Vega, Credit: NASA
Until recently the discovery of very close approaching asteroids was rare, however, due to improvements in telescopes, cameras, and computers aster...

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
720-Large PHA(506)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Vesta, Credit: NASA
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Pegasus with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bi...

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
718-Vulcan(504)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist Conception , Credit: Don Davis (University of Florida)
In the fictional Star Trek series, Vulcan, Spock's home planet was imagined to orbit the A component of the triple star system 40 Eridani [Eri-dani...

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
717-Fulls II(503)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Nucleus, Credit: NASA
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls discovered his third comet, Comet C/2018 R4 (Fuls). It is now on its way back into deep space....

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
715-Carson’s Night(501)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Asteroid and Earth, Credit: ESA
A small space rock is spotted 4 days before it came very close to the Earth and our Moon.

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  • Added: Oct 09, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
712-Tiny Traveler(498)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Although small space rocks pose no threat to humans, they are an interesting part of our environment, offer a chance for asteroid hunters to develo...

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
710-Boomer(496)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fireball, Credit: Arne Danielsen
The fireball meteor streaking across the sky the early evening of January 17, 2018, witnessed by 700 observers in 11 States and Canada was also rec...

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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...

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  • Added: Jun 26, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
695-A Large Visitor(480)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Statistically, asteroid hunters are thought to have discovered 90% of our potentially dangerous celestial neighbors greater than 1 KM in diameter. ...

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