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814-Threat of Solar Storms
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Solar Eruption, Credit: NASA
Solar storms on our home planet occur when bursts of visible, ultraviolet and other photons hit our atmosphere and/or streams of energetic particle...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KKRN, Raven Radio, KGLP and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
813-RADAR Observations of Close Approachers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception of Asteroid Impact, Credit: NASA
Astronomers measure an asteroid’s position on the sky using a two dimensional system similar to the latitude and longitude coordinates we obtain w...

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


  • Added: Aug 25, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Bogus Earth Theories
From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour
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The Flat Earth, Hollow Earth, Expanding Earth and more, oh my! Come along with us today as we look at some suspect theories about our home planet.

  • Added: Aug 13, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
808-Global Auroras on Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Ultraviolet View of Mars from MAVEN Satellite , Credit: NASA
When the Earth enters a stream of high speed protons and other charged particles in the solar wind or our home planet is impacted by a solar corona...

Bought by KCHW, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Jul 22, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
795-Spiral Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Nucleus of Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, Credit: Jan Erik Vallestad
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks comes near the Sun once every 71 years. It was discovered in 1812 by Jean Louis Pons at Marseilles, France and then rediscov...

Bought by KCHW, Raven Radio, KGLP, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KNVC Carson City Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
794-An Apollo Space Rock to Follow
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Itakowa, Credit: NASA
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Vivian Carjaval was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Ursa Minor with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. ...

Bought by KCHW, Raven Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KNVC Carson City Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
793-Close Space Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists conception space rock and Earth, Credit: PIXABAY
Perhaps the most dangerous Amor asteroid is 2006 HZ51 .It was discovered by my team the Catalina Sky Survey. Fortunately the closest 2006 HZ51 wil...

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  • Added: Apr 07, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
792-Closest Approaching Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Arietid meteor shower, Credit: GETTY
P/1999 J6 (SOHO) was discovered 10 May 1995 by Mike Oates as part of the Citizen Science Sun Grazer Project in which volunteers from all over the w...

Bought by KCHW, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
791-A Fireball and It’s Gifts
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: A fragment of the Asteroid 2024 BX1 recovered in Germany is a rare meteorite class called Aubrite, Credit: SETI
It all started when Krisztián Sárneczky at the Konkoly Observatory near Budapest, Hungary reported the position and brightness of an unknown astero...

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  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
789-Asteroid With A Tail
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet ISON, Credit: HST
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Josh Hogan was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Taurus with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona wh...

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


  • Added: Mar 10, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 69
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Three Feel-Good Stories from HumaNature.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
Verifying and Solving Global Warming
From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour
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Brian Dunning examines the evidence that humans are warming the earth.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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...

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  • Added: Dec 03, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
767- A Really Tough Customer
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Nucleus, Credit: NASA
The more we learn about 322P/SOHO the stranger it becomes.

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  • Added: Oct 08, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
765 Bright Fireball
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Bright Fireball, Credit: Bill Stewart
Bright fireball meteors sometimes rain pieces of themselves onto the ground for meteorite hunters to discover.

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


  • Added: Sep 24, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
764 Green Airglow
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Green Airglow Over Colorado, Credit: Aaron Watson
The natural night sky is alive with its own lights. In addition to celestial sources often there is natural night sky airglow powered by space wea...

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


  • Added: Sep 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
761-Alessandra’s Duo
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Lunar Impact, Credit: NASA
In less than two hours my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Allesandra Serrano discovered two small fast moving space rocks. Both of them passed through...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KCHW, WTIP, KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Aug 27, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
760- Discover an Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Dimorphos, Credit: NASA
Carson Fuls, one of my Catalina Sky Survey teammates, is leading the effort that will allow you to join our NASA funded adventure in asteroid hunt...

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


  • Added: Aug 20, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
759-Number 7
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fireball, Credit: NASA
Hungarian astronomer and geography teacher Krisztián Sárneczky was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Lynx with 0.6m (24 inch) telescope at...

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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 ...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
741-Africano(529)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: NASA Stardust
My Catalina Sky Survey Teammate Brian Africano discovered his 4th comet while asteroid hunting in the constellation of Ursa Major with our Schmidt ...

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  • Added: Apr 09, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Episode 1: Mapping the Coastal Oceans
From: David Levin
Series: Deep Soundings: Stories from the Ocean Floor
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When it comes to mapping the seafloor, the hardest spots to see are the ones just off the coast. In this episode, find out why that's the case—and ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 14:52
734-Comets Africano(522)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet ISON, Credit: NASA
During Comet C/2018 V4 Africano's last visit to the inner solar system humans were erecting the outer ring at Stonehenge. At the rate human's are c...

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
735-One Thousand(523)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroids, Credit: NASA
For the first time in history, an asteroid hunting team, the Catalina Sky Survey, has discovered more than 1,000 Earth approaching asteroids in a s...

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  • Added: Feb 19, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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...

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10