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637-Martian Dust
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Zodiacal Light and Mars , Credit: Joshua Rhoades
After sunset in the spring and before sunrise in the fall, at a natural night sky location like the Cosmic Campground International Dark Sky Sanctu...

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


  • Added: Apr 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
631-Greg's Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
My Catalina Survey Teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he spotted a fuzzy object wit...

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


  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
621-Morning Sky
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Although the orbit of an Aten asteroid crosses our path in space on its travel about the Sun it stays mostly inside the Earth's orbit making it dif...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WLPR , WTIP and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
618-Tremendous Find
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin searched for asteroids, as close to the Sun as possible with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lem...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WTIP and more


  • Added: Nov 28, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
615-Solar Storm Forecasts
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A large solar coronal mass ejection could put astronauts, airline passengers, power grids, electronic devices, and satellites at risk. Participa...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP and more


  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
610-Atmospheric Gravity Waves
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Atmospheric gravity waves seen from space, Credit: Jeff Schmaltz – (NASA)
Atmospheric gravity waves can be powerful. In September of 2018 two glider pilots surfed an atmospheric gravity wave created by high speed polar w...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP and more


  • Added: Oct 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
608-Triple Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Recently amateur astronomer, Worachate Boonplod discovered the 4049th comet recorded in the imaging data produced by SOHO, the ESA/NASA Solar and ...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP and more


  • Added: Sep 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
606-Falling Stones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Approximately 100 million metric tons of mostly sand grained sized space dust enters the Earth's atmosphere every day. Occasionally, larger pieces ...

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
593-Kacper's First Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzchos was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he spotted a fuzzy obj...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WLPR , KENW and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
590- Noctilucent Clouds
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Noctilucent Clouds exist at more than 50 miles above the Earth's surface or about 4 times higher than the tops of the most intense tropical thunder...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
588-Encounter With Saturn
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
From 1663 to 2011, seven comets had close encounters with Jupiter and two had close encounters with Saturn. In May of 1936, Comet P/2020 F1 Leonar...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW and more


  • Added: May 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
587-Quiet Sun
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Images of the quiet Sun during a solar minimum make it look like a relatively static peaceful place. Occasionally during solar minimum, at the Cosm...

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


  • Added: Apr 24, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
585-Mini Moon II
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
My Catalina Sky Survey teammates Kacper Wierzchos and Teddy Pruyne were asteroid hunting in the constellation of Virgo with our 60 inch telescope w...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
584-Pop Up Comets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Virgo when he spotted a fuzzy ball with a tail moving thr...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
573-Sweet Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Over the past 50 years, in the interior of Australian meteorites, scientists have discovered a large variety of extraterrestrial organic substances...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
568-Tough Space Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
At its closest point, a small space rock comes to only 1/3 of Mercury's average distance from the solar surface and receives 9 times the amount of...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW and more


  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
564-Heavy Traffic
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
In the space of less than 13 hours four small space rocks zipped through the Earth-Moon neighborhood. All of them were discovered by my team, the N...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
555-Dead Comet Dust
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
The Phoenicids are a minor meteor shower which was discovered by the first Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition on December 5, 1956. To spot the ...

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
553-Exploring The Far Side
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
The Chinese, Chang'e 4 made a soft landing on the far side of the Moon where it is impossible to have direct radio communications with the Earth. I...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
549-Weirdest Star
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Recently the Kepler Spacecraft found that a catalogue star HD 139139 now nicknamed the "Random Transiter" had 28 apparently random sharp narrow di...

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  • Added: Aug 01, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
548-Dragonfly
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
In our solar system the most exotic body which contains the complex organic molecules necessary for life is Saturn's Moon Titan. NASA's Dragonfly...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
542-Toughest Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
An asteroid has been discovered that comes very near to the Sun where it receives 12.6 times the radiation that heats the planet Mercury's surface...

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  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
539-Close Approaches
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
During a recent 30 day period, 11 small space rocks passed closer to us than the Moon. If one of them were to enter our atmosphere and you were di...

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  • Added: May 10, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
538-Asteroid Slam
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Humans are slamming projectiles into space rocks. These experiments will give us the know how to deal with a dangerous space rock which has our num...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP, WLPR and more


  • Added: May 04, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
536-Ultima Thule
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Traveling an additional billion miles beyond Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft is now sending back data on 2014 MU69, a strange snow man shaped ob...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, KRWG, WTIP and more


  • Added: Apr 20, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7