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Browse Past ShowsProgram ArchivesBrowse by Subject: Astronomy and Cosmology
THE BRIGHTEST LIGHT IN THE UNIVERSE
April 28, 2008 Guests: Neil Gehrels Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The Swift spacecraft found the biggest explosion ever witnessed by humans just last month. This Gamma Ray Burst was halfway across the universe. Principal Investigator Neil Gehrels tells us about... more »
JOHN ANDERSON AND THE FLYBY ANOMALY
March 10, 2008 Guests: John Anderson Select Format: MP3 Windows Media First the Pioneer Anomaly, now a new challenge to physics appears in the Flyby Anomaly. JPL celestial mechanics expert John Anderson... more »
STARDUST@HOME UPDATE FROM ANDREW WESTPHAL
December 3, 2007 Guests: Andrew Westphal Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Stardust@Home Director Andrew Westphal returns to Planetary Radio as the project prepares to extract the first bits of interstellar matter found by 23,000 trained volunteers. Emily Lakdawalla looks... more »
THE UNIVERSE IN ULTRAVIOLET: BILL BLAIR ON THE FUSE MISSION
October 29, 2007 Guests: Bill Blair Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer is dead, and astrophysicist Bill Blair helped to kill it. He tells us why, and shares the wonder of this very successful eight-year mission. Emily... more »
THE PIONEER ANOMALY: CHANGING THE LAWS OF PHYSICS?
September 10, 2007 Guests: Slava Turyshev Select Format: MP3 Windows Media JPL research scientist Slava Turyshev returns to provide an update on the Pioneer Anomaly project. With just a couple of obstacles left to overcome, almost thirty years of mission data are almost... more »
A HOLE IN THE UNIVERSE
September 3, 2007 Guests: Lawrence Rudnick Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Lawrence Rudnick and two colleagues, all at the University of Minnesota, are publishing a paper about their discovery of a tremendous void in the cosmos, a billion light year-wide expanse that... more »
DEEP IMPACT RETURNS FOR AN INTERPLANETARY THREE-FOR-ONE
July 9, 2007 Guests: Mike A'Hearn Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Deep Impact wowed the world with its explosive investigation of a comet two years ago. Now the spacecraft has been given a new mission that combines two very different tasks. We talk with then and... more »
EXPLORING THE MYSTERY OF DARK MATTER WITH RICHARD MASSEY
May 21, 2007 Guests: Richard Massey Select Format: MP3 Windows Media How are we finding and even mapping dark matter when it can't be seen? CalTech's Richard Massey is one of the researchers who has learned how to map the mysterious material that dominates the... more »
COSMOLOGY: FIVE BIG THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW
April 9, 2007 Guests: Liz Kruesi Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Astrophysics grad student Liz Kruesi asked cosmologists for the questions they get asked by the public. She covers the five biggest in the new May edition of Astronomy magazine. From the Big Bang... more »
STEVE OSTRO AND THE END OF RADAR ASTRONOMY?
January 1, 2007 Guests: Steve Ostro Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Our conversation with JPL scientist Steve Ostro continues as we learn about the proposed budget cuts that may end research at the two greatest radar astronomy instruments on Earth, Arecibo and... more » |
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