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Caption: Fireball, Credit: Arne Danielsen
The fireball meteor streaking across the sky the early evening of January 17, 2018, witnessed by 700 observers in 11 States and Canada was also rec...

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Mars, Credit: NASA
Exciting new research indicates that there could be a lake of liquid water beneath the south Martian polar cap. Further research will be required t...

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Asteroids, Credit: NASA
It has been 20 years since the world woke up to the news that a half mile diameter asteroid, 1997 XF11, discovered by Space Watch on Kitt Peak, had...

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  • Added: Jul 10, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
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Caption: Parker Spacecraft, Credit: NASA
Imagine a spacecraft traveling at a speed that would take it from New York to Tokyo in less than a minute, a mere 4 million miles from the surface ...

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  • Added: Jul 03, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
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Caption: Martian Dust Storm, Credit: NASA
In a few weeks ,as Earth and Mars moved closer together, a dust storm engulfed most of the red planet making it impossible to see its surface featu...

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  • Added: Jun 26, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
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Caption: Ryan Merkley, Aspen Institute , Credit: Picture provided by Ryan Merkley
Managing Director of Aspen Digital at the Aspen Institute, Ryan Merkley briefly discusses a report on mis- and disinformation released in November,...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2022
  • Length: 07:41
Caption: Planetary Alignment over Australian Radio Telescope, Credit:  Graeme L. White & Glen Cozens (James Cook University)
Most Astronomers find it hard to believe that given perhaps a trillion planets in the Milky Way alone that our Earth is the only one which hosts li...

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  • Added: Jun 12, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
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Caption: Binary Asteroid, Credit: ESA
Asteroid hunters have discovered a strange asteroid pair. How they came to be together and what humans would do if such a large double trouble obje...

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  • Added: Jun 05, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
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Caption: Fireball Exploding, Credit: NASA
An object is tracked in outer space, seen to explode in our atmosphere, and had a fragment of it discovered on the ground. Its analysis will help h...

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  • Added: May 29, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
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Statistically, asteroid hunters are thought to have discovered 90% of our potentially dangerous celestial neighbors greater than 1 KM in diameter. ...

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  • Added: May 22, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
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Caption: Comet Johnson, Credit: CSS/NASA/U.Arizona
Comet C/2018 M1 (Catalina) is eternal in the sense that it will likely wander the vast space between the stars in our Milky Way Galaxy until the en...

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  • Added: May 15, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
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Caption: Comet Christensen, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard knew he had bagged his third comet when he spotted an unknown fuzzy object with a broad tail moving th...

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  • Added: May 08, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
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A 2000 foot diameter space rock has stories to tell about violent events long ago. Asteroid hunters are eager to track this huge collision fragment...

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  • Added: May 01, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
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The Paley Orthopedic and Spine Institute with Craig Robbins MD on Pediatric and Adult Limb Lengthening, Corrective Surgery and more

  • Added: Apr 29, 2022
  • Length: 26:15
Caption: Artist's concept of what binary asteroid 2017 YE5 might look like. The two objects showed striking differences in radar reflectivity, which could indicate that they have different surface properties., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
A strange asteroid plays hide and seek with frustrated astronomers.

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
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Caption: Fragments of the asteroid 2018 LA scattered over a wide area in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve., Credit: Alexande Proyer
A small space rock with a diameter less than the height of an NBA basketball player had just crossed the orbit of our Moon on a collision course wi...

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  • Added: Apr 10, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: About 1000 Viking Orbiter red- and violet-filter images have been processed to provide global color coverage of Mars at a scale of 1 km/pixel., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS
The life of an asteroid hunter on Mars will be interesting and exciting. The double planet, our Earth and Moon, in the Martian night sky will be an...

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  • Added: Apr 03, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
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We’ve all heard of MN nice, well get ready for Minnesota ‘N Ice, a special Culture Clique series where we’ll take a look at the way Minnesotans and...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 30:53
Caption: Asteroid, Credit: NASA
After being lost for ten years, the asteroid 2010 WC9 was re-discovered about a week before it came very close to Earth.

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
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Adventure Guide Cogan Cain on Wild Turkey, Boar, Dear , Fish Hunting, and Environmental Awareness.

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  • Added: Mar 25, 2022
  • Length: 26:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Palm grub sushi, Credit: Sandip Roy
Just last year the U.N. reported that malnutrition rose to about 768 million people. Sandip Roy wonders if the time for insects as food is upon us.

  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
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Notes and Notes with David McClymont CEO of The Palm Beach Symphony and Sommelier Brian Chamis of The Wine Proxy.  We delve into the world of wine ...

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2022
  • Length: 26:31
  • Purchases: 1
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We explore the motivations and challenges of converts as they carve out a uniquely American path for being Muslim in the United States. We profile ...

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Fragments of the Sutter’s Mill meteorite fall collected by NASA Ames and SETI Institute meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens in the evening of Tuesday April 24, 2012, two days after the fall. This was the second recovered find., Credit: NASA Ames/Eric James
If you set your mind to it, you can find and hold a sample of an asteroid, called a meteorite, which has landed on the Earth's surface. On the othe...

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  • Added: Feb 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
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Caption: Comet Lovejoy, Credit: NASA
Greg's comet comes into our neighborhood once per human lifetime and spends most of it's time in the lonely space high above or far below the rest ...

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  • Added: Jan 22, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10