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Caption: Artists Conception Sun and Asteroids, Credit: NASA
Historically explorers in many fields of human endeavor have been granted the privilege to name their discovery. If you find a new comet and it r...

Bought by Raven Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., RADIOLEX, WTIP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Dec 10, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Jason F. McLennan, Credit: Alex Akamine Photography
What would it feel like to live in a world where our built environment was as elegant as nature's designs? What if our living and working spaces nu...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
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Astronomy begins at home, just looking up and seeing what we see. The Kids Crew meet with Professor Raman Prinja, Head of Astronomy and Physics at ...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
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Has it ever occurred to you that more and more emotional language is being used by people today? Would it suprise you that that kind of language ha...

Bought by WFHB and Central Florida Public Media


  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Nov 24, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Uncover Secrets Beyond the Solar System , Credit: Deep Astronomy
It is the fourth of seven planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system, which is the most studied planetary system outside our own. Astronomers are intensely ...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 04:04
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
There’s no question that humanity is making fast progress in understanding, cataloging and classifying planets around other stars. So far we’ve fo...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 04:04
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Human beings have discovered over five thousand five hundred exoplanets. Over 80 percent of them have orbits shorter than 50 days which would place...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 04:37
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Astronomers have recently concluded an observation study of the closest exoplanet to Earth, Proxima Centauri b and found that the planet does not t...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 04:48
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series
If you love the 60’s like me, remember it well, I think you’ll love the book and the new Apple TV+ show, Lesson’s In Chemistry. The series premier...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 14:18

  • Added: Sep 28, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Sep 15, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: Deep inside the toxically masculine mind.

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  • Added: Sep 07, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
One of the most exciting exoplanetary systems discovered so far, and one we’ve talked about many times on Exoplanet Radio, is TRAPPIST-1, a system ...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2023
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Today, we are going to visit TrES-2b, a planet that is so dark that it reflects less than one percent of the sunlight falling on it. How can a plan...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
One of the big questions we are trying to answer in exoplanet astronomy is: Just how common are habitable planets? We already know that exoplanets...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Kelt-9b is a gas giant planet that orbits a star 670 light-years from Earth. It is so close to its star that its dayside temperature is 7,800 degre...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Whenever humans start cataloging and classifying things, whether it be plants, animals, stars or exoplanets, we naturally become interested in the...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
The launch and deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope in July 2022, marked the beginning of a new era in exoplanet science. Never before had...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 04:07
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Tucked inside a quiet solar system, in the area of sky outlined by the constellation Aquarius, orbits a planet named TRAPPIST-1d, the third of seve...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 04:07
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
One of the reasons we’ve created Exoplanet Radio is that Exoplanets are awesome. The idea that there are planets in orbit around stars outside our...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2023
  • Length: 03:48
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
This planet, VHS 1256 b, has recently been observed by the James Webb Space Telescope and it is a very interesting world. It is not like any of th...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2023
  • Length: 04:29
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
In our galaxy, there are many planets that wander alone in the dark, without a star to orbit. These rogue planets could have formed from the same m...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2023
  • Length: 03:59
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
To get anywhere in the galaxy at anything resembling a reasonable time, we need to go fast - some fraction of light speed would be best. Proxima C...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2023
  • Length: 04:33