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Podcast: Download Date: September 30, 2009 Title: The Delight of Stars Podcaster: Brother Guy Consolmagno Organization: The Vatican Observatory http://www.vaticanobservatory.org/ The music “Ocean Blue” was written and performed by Warren Raiti Description: The Vatican Observatory is one of the oldest astronomical institutions in the world, dating from the reform of the calendar in 1582 — when Galileo himself was just a teenager! We’ve been around in our present form since 1891, a group of a dozen Jesuits from four continents [...]
Date: September 29, 2009 Title: Space Law Podcaster: Harold Goldner Links: http://www.goldnerlaw.com Adelta Space Law (Australia) http://www.spacelaw.com.au European Center for Space Law http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/ECSL International Institute of Space Law http://www.iislweb.org (also on LinkedIn and Facebook) United Nations Office on Outer Space Affairs http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/oosa/en/OOSA/index.html Description: Exploration of space eventually means mankind leaves the planet, and leaving the planet means taking society along. What is “Space Law” and how will it apply to space exploration? Learn about the efforts being made on Planet [...]
Date: September 28, 2009 Title: The Connection Between Metal Abundances and the Evolution of Galaxies Podcaster: Duane Lee from Columbia Astronomy Organization: Columbia University Astronomy http://outreach.astro.columbia.edu Description: Metals in astronomy refer to any element heavier than Helium on the periodic table. The abundance of metals with the exception of a few tell us the processing steps needed in the past to create the current abundance patterns we see in galaxies today. In both stellar atmospheres and interstellar/intergalactic gas we can [...]
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Podcast: Download Date: September 27, 2009 Title: The Phobos LIFE Experiment Podcaster: Mat Kaplan and Bruce Betts Links: http://planetary.org/radio http://raybradbury.com Description: Mat Kaplan and Bruce Betts discuss the Planetary Society’s Phobos LIFE Experiment: Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment that will take organisms to Mars’ moon Phobos and back again. Bio: Mat Kaplan hosts and produces Planetary Radio, the weekly public radio and podcast series from the Planetary Society. Bruce Betts is the Director of Projects for the Planetary Society. Planetary Radio [...]
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Podcast: Download Date: September 26, 2009 Title: The IAU Stategy Podcaster: Carolina Ödman Organization: Universe Awareness: http://www.unawe.org/ Description: This episode features interviews of past and present IAU presidents as well as other stakeholders with an interest in the International Astronomical Union’s newly adopted strategic plan “Astronomy for the Developing World”. Bio: Carolina Ödman is the international project manager of Universe Awareness. She studied Physics Engineering in Switzerland and completed her PhD in cosmology at the University of Cambridge in 2003. [...]
The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is a project that will publish one podcast per day, for all 365 days of 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 -- and now 2013. The podcast episodes are written, recorded and produced by people around the world.
In 2013, we became of CosmoQuest and began to include video.
