Today’s Episode
Sep 7th: Last Minute Astronomer September 2024
What is gracing the September 2024 skies? A just barely partial lunar eclipse, the best viewing for Saturn, 5 lunar close encounters, & transition to fall.
Subscribe & Follow
Project Director: Avivah Yamani
Audio Engineer: Richard Drumm
Executive Producer: Pamela L. Gay
Learn more about us on our
Credits and Sponsors page.
We are a community podcast,
bringing you the voices of astronomy & astronomy lovers,
everyday of the year.
More Recent Episodes
Oct 3rd: Observing With Webb in October 2020
Mars Month! October is pretty awesome this year. Two Full Moons, one on Halloween, four brilliantly positioned planets, the Orionid Meteor Shower, and the opposition of Mars are making October of 2020 a rich month for getting out there and investigating the night sky
Oct 2nd: Dr. John Kiss – The Growth of Plants in Space
Dr. John Kiss will be discussing the sensory physiology of plants in space research, including the effect of Mars’ levels of gravity on plant development. And of course news update with aurora in comets.
Oct 1st: Enceladus, a Magnetar & a Comet Aurora, Oh My!
The northern hemisphere of Enceladus has fresh ice! Plus scientists directly measured the distance to a magnetar, and comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has an aurora.
Sep 30th: Southern Skies & Northern Skies
What’s the difference between the northern hemisphere skies and those we get to see in the global South?
Sep29th: Mars – Very Dusty & Crap Acoustics
What’s with Mars dust storms? How many microphones have we landed on Mars? @CheapAstro will answer this questions on today’s Mars – Very Dusty & Crap Acoustics podcast at #365DaysOfAstro
Sep 28th: White and Black Dwarfs
Stars die. At some point in the next few billion years or so our Sun is going to start heating up, using up all the fuel in its core, and then eventually die, becoming a white dwarf. It’ll then slowly cool down to the background temperature of the Universe, becoming a black dwarf. Let’s learn about this fascinating process.