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800-Telescope Reborn
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: In an artist’s rendering, light from quasars passes through intergalactic clouds of hydrogen gas. The light offers clues to the structure of the distant cosmos, Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld and DESI
In an astonishing rebirth, the Mayall 4-m telescope has jumped to the forefront of astronomy once again because it is sturdy and precise enough to...

Bought by KGLP, KRWG, KKRN, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 26, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
777-Psyche Bound
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Psyche Spacecraft, Credit: NASA
The NASA Psyche Spacecraft will use a multispectral imager, gamma and neutron spectrometers, and other instruments to map, measure, and characteriz...

Bought by Raven Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP and more


  • Added: Dec 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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...

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


  • Added: Dec 03, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
774-Loss and Gain
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Vera Rubin Main Telescope Under Construction, Credit: Eric Christensen
The Catalina Sky Survey searches the sky as rapidly as possible in search of Earth approaching objects that could pose a threat to our home planet....

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


  • Added: Nov 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
771-Nice PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Psyche, Credit: NASA
NASA classifies 2023 SZ1 as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid since it is larger than 140m in diameter and on its current path can come to about 6 t...

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


  • Added: Nov 05, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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 ...

Bought by WTIP, Raven Radio, KKRN, KGLP, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Jul 16, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
746-Followups(534)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroids, Credit: NASA
Without followup data, many if not most of the Earth approaching objects would be lost as they move away from us leaving us with no idea when they ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KGLP, Raven Radio, WTIP, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: May 14, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
745-100 Moons(533)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Schmidt Telescope Mt. Bigelow, Arizona, Credit: CSS/U. Arizona
A small telescope makes a substantial contribution to our knowledge of the celestial visitors to our neighborhood

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


  • Added: May 07, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
739-Comet Groller(527)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet ISON, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groller was asteroid hunting with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when he discovered his first...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, KGLP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
737-Collision(525)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid Breakup, Credit: NASA
The object which the 2.3 mile diameter Gault hit is likely to have been a third of a mile diameter space rock. This celestial crash left Gault with...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
736-Home Wrecker(524)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: IDA, Credit: NASA
The extremely remote chance that a dangerous mountain sized space rock has our number on it is what keeps my team going to our four telescopes in t...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KGLP, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Mar 05, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
733-Lunar Space Rock(521)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Lunar Space Rock, Credit: NASA
Recently, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groller discovered an Earth approaching asteroid which has a speed consistent with it being ejecte...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KGLP, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Feb 12, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
729-Close Again(517)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception: Small Space Rocks, Credit: Texas A&M
As asteroid hunters equipment and skills continue to improve we will be able to find and track some of these tiny impactors and perhaps be able to ...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KGLP, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
726-Close Space Rocks(514)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception:Small Impacting Asteroid, Credit: NASA
Since 1900 there have been 11 close approaches by asteroids larger than 300 feet in diameter. One of them, the Tunguska Object was about 400 feet i...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
725-Mtn Ops(513)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Telescopes Mt. Lemmon, AZ, Credit: CSS/University of Arizona
My team, the Catalina Sky Survey, would not find a single asteroid without Steward Observatory's Mountain Lemmon Operations, or Mtn Ops for short. ...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
724-Aten(512)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid, Credit: NASA
Aten Asteroids are stealthy space rocks which can be dim and hard to detect since for most of their path about the Sun their illuminated side is fa...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, KGLP, WTIP and more


  • Added: Dec 11, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
723-Very Close One(510)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception: Exploding Fireball Meteor, Credit: NASA
Ten hours and 46 minutes after my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard discovered a Toyota RAV4 sized space rock, now named 2018 UA, streaking...

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


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

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


  • Added: Nov 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Raven Radio, WTIP and more


  • Added: Nov 13, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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...

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


  • Added: Oct 30, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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....

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 23, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
716-Pair of PHAs(502)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Ida and Gaspra, Credit: NASA
Asteroid Hunters keep careful track of nearly 2,000 Potentially Hazardous Asteroids [PHAs] to make sure that they are no threat to humanity. The re...

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


  • Added: Oct 16, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
714-Why Look(500)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Ida, Credit: NASA
What asteroid hunters fear is that a small space rock capable of injuring people and damaging buildings is heading our way and that we will not fin...

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


  • Added: Oct 02, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
713-Oppy(499)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Opportunity Rover, Credit: NASA
The NASA Mars Opportunity Rover, nicked named Oppy by those who operate and love it ,was designed to last 90 days on the Martian surface but has co...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KICI Iowa City, KGLP, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP and more


  • Added: Sep 18, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8