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683-TESS(460)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: TESS Spacecraft, Credit: NASA
To find planets close to home NASA has launched TESS the Transiting Exoplanet Satellite which will monitor more than 200,000 nearby, stars over the...

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


  • Added: Feb 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
682-Falling Space Rocks(459)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Over 100 meteors are recorded in this composite image taken during the peak of the Geminid meteor shower in 2014., Credit: NASA/MSFC/Danielle Moser, NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office
In the early evening of January 17, 2018 six hundred and seventy four observers in 11 States and Canada reported a fireball meteor streaking across...

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


  • Added: Feb 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
681-17,000 to Go(455)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: NEO Surveyor will be based on NEOCam (above), a finalist in the previous round of the Discovery program, and will feature an infrared telescope to look for near Earth objects., Credit: Credit: NASA/JPL
So far asteroid hunters have discovered about 8,000 of the 25,000, large, potentially hazardous asteroids, suspected to exist, leaving 17,000 more ...

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


  • Added: Feb 13, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
678-Greg's Comet(425)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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 ...

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


  • Added: Jan 22, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
677-30 Years of Fireballs(457)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: 30 years of fireballs, Credit: NASA
Fireballs are meteors which become brighter than the planet Venus and can sometimes be seen in the daytime. If you are lucky to see a fireball send...

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


  • Added: Jan 16, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
675-Nuking An Asteroid(447)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception, Credit: Dan Durda
Tonight, even though the chances are extremely slim, an asteroid hunter could find a sizable asteroid on a collision course with planet Earth. If w...

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


  • Added: Jan 02, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 13
674-Asteroid Homestead(446)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid Mining, Credit: NASA
In the future one can envision a space mining family boarding a descendent of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch Vehicle for a trip into low Earth orb...

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


  • Added: Dec 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
673-Christmas Comet(437)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Halley's Comet, Credit: NASA
On December 25, 2017, while searching for Earth approaching asteroids in the constellation of Virgo, the Universe gave my Catalina Sky Survey team...

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  • Added: Dec 19, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
672-Meteor Whispers(427)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fireball Exploding, Credit: NASA
Recent scientific studies have begun to shed light on the interesting mystery of how the small number of what we now call electrophonic meteors pro...

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  • Added: Dec 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
670-Laser Surfing(364)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Laser Sail, Credit: Project Breakthrough
Laser propelled ultra light space probes could be sent to explore nearby worlds.

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  • Added: Nov 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
669-Seeds(356)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Voyager Leaving Solar System, Credit: NASA
What plant seeds will be left for interstellar travelers to take with them?

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


  • Added: Nov 21, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 13
668-Dry Sands(420)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Mars, Credit: NASA
Intriguing features which change with the Martian seasons mimic flows of liquid water on the Earth's surface.

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


  • Added: Nov 14, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
666-Red Dwarf Planets(417)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Gliese 887C, Credit: Mark Garlick/ University of Göttingen
Earth like planets are being discovered circling the most common type of star in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy.

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  • Added: Oct 31, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
665-Odd Ball(416)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid Shattering, Credit: NASA
A small asteroid soars into the lonely space high above and below the plane of our solar system.

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


  • Added: Oct 24, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
664-Extraterrestrial Whales(410)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Europa, Credit: NASA
Perhaps the reason that we have not detected alien civilizations on distant worlds is because they exist in oceans covered by miles of radiation ab...

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  • Added: Oct 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
663-Alien Rock?(409)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid Illustration, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
A rock from another solar system is likely to have streaked by Earth before heading back into interstellar space.

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


  • Added: Oct 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Fire and Water: From California to Iran
From: Mateo Schimpf
Piece image
This week, we take a look at farming communities on opposite sides of the world: both struggling to adapt to climate change, and to better manage o...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
662-Earth's Pet Rock(408)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid Eros, Credit: NASA
On it's gravitational leash, Earth's pet space rock, 2016 HO3, accompanies us at a distance of between 38 and 100 times the Moon's distance from Ea...

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
661-Roving Venus (400)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: An illustration of a concept for a possible wind-powered Venus rover., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
To survive on Venus where the temperature is 864F and the surface air pressure is 90 times that of Earth, NASA and JPL engineers are exploring the ...

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
660-Double Comet (403)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Neat observed At Kitt Peak, Credit: NASA
What at first appeared to be an asteroid turned out to be a double comet.

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  • Added: Sep 19, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
659-Martian Debris(382)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Mars, Credit: NASA
Martian Trojan asteroids have stable orbits around the Sun, leading and trailing the red planet by 60 degrees, where the Sun's and Mars's gravity a...

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  • Added: Sep 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
657-Plant Companionship(407)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson happily displays the progress of the Advanced Astroculture experiment aboard the International Space Station in July 2002., Credit: NASA
On Earth, human life is enabled by plants which provide us with calories, vitamins, fuel, medicines, and oxygen to breathe. In addition, recent sci...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
656-Moons of Florence(399)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
The largest asteroid to come near the Earth in 100 years has two moons.

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  • Added: Aug 22, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
654-Night Vision (401)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Experience the wonders of the Universe first hand using your night vision.

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


  • Added: Aug 07, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Rethinking Foreign Aid
From: Mateo Schimpf
Piece image
Degan Ali, a Somali-American who heads the Nairobi based NGO ADESO, talks about the future of aid with Eileen O'Connor, Senior Vice President of th...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5

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