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Podcast: Download Date: May 31, 2011 Title: End of an Endeavour Podcaster: Pam Griffin Description: In the early hours of tomorrow morning, June 1, the space shuttle Endeavour is due to make her final flight, returning from the International Space Station to Earth. In this podcast we take a look back at some of Endeavour’s achievements and the history of NASA’s youngest space shuttle. Bio: Pam Griffin has no qualifications in astronomy aside from having studied a few short courses [...]
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Podcast: Download Date: May 30, 2011 Title: 2011 Congressional Visits Day with the AAS Podcaster: Diane Turnshek Organization: Carnegie Mellon University – http://www.cmu.edu/physics Description: I was invited by the AAS to join in the fun for Congressional Visits Day in April 2011. As scientists, we need to do whatever it takes to educate the public, the politicians and their staff members about the importance of STEM education and support for science, especially when discretionary spending has been targeted in the [...]
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Podcast: Download Date: May 29, 2011 Title: How To Build A Solar System Podcaster: Steve Nerlich Organization: Cheap Astronomy – www.cheapastro.com Description: An explanation of how a solar system is created. Bio: Cheap Astronomy offers an educational website where you get more big bang for your buck. Sponsor: This episode of “365 Days of Astronomy” is sponsored by Edgardo Molina. Transcript: Hi this is Steve Nerlich from Cheap Astronomy www.cheapastro.com and this How to build a solar system. Planetary systems [...]
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Podcast: Download Date: May 28, 2011 Title: The Universe in Your Phone Podcaster: Pam Griffin Links: Distant Suns (Lite) : Astronomy for the rest of us – http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/distant-suns-lite-astronomy/id305508619 NASA app – http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nasa-app/id334325516 NASA Television – http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nasa-television/id434439506 Moon Globe – http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/moon-globe/id333180321 Moon Globe HD – http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/moon-globe-hd/id376000038 Mars Globe – http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mars-globe/id324185998 Mars Globe HD – http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mars-globe-hd/id376020224 The music in this podcast is by Kevin MacLeod – http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/ Description: A look at some of the iPhone applications available to help people just getting [...]
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Podcast: Download Date: May 27, 2011 Title: Pan-STARRS1 Podcaster: Niall Deacon Links: http://www.ps1sc.org/ http://www.ps1sc.org/blog Description: Pan-STARRS1 is the first of a new generation of astronomical surveys. With the world’s largest digital camera and a survey area 32 times the size of the full moon Pan-STARRS1 will repeatedly survey the sky many times per year. This has allowed it to discover new killer asteroid that could threaten the Earth and a new population of massive supernova explosions in the furthest reaches [...]
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.
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