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750-Asteroid Slam(538)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: DART, Credit: NASA
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 Allegheny Mountain Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Jun 11, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
749-Earth Glow(537)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Earth Glow, Credit: NASA/ESA
In 1972 Apollo 16 astronauts took an ultraviolet image of the Earth from the Moon which shows that like the Sun ,the Earth too, has a faint corona ...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KGLP and more


  • Added: Jun 04, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
744-Teddy’s Debut(532)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Opening the 60 Inch on Mt. Lemmon , Credit: CSS/U. Arizona
On a recent training night with Teddy Pruyne at the controls of our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona, this duo discovered six new Earth App...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, Raven Radio, WTIP, RADIOLEX, KGLP and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
740-Asteroid Billiards(528)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Vega's Asteroids, Credit: NASA
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART for short will test methods to make a dangerous asteroid miss Earth

Bought by KICI Iowa City, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, KGLP, WTIP and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Nature Out of Balance with Dr. Tim Wood
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Little things can cause big trouble when man changes the environment

Bought by WMUU-LP and WYAP


  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 28:34
  • Purchases: 2
728-Space Weather(516)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Earth Engulfed in Space Weather, Credit: NASA
Space is not all that far away. If a powerful solar eruption in 2012 had happened a week earlier, the blast of radiation would have caused wide spr...

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


  • Added: Jan 08, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
727-Dust Moons(515)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Kordylewski's strange "dust moons", Credit: J. Slíz-Balogh
The discovery of two large ghostly neighbors approximately 65,000 by 45,000 miles in size at the L4 and L5 sites approximately 250,000 miles from b...

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


  • Added: Jan 01, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
698-Aliens?(484)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City, RADIOLEX, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jun 12, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
652-Our Number(314)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard discovered, 2016 WJ1, a relatively large asteroid which can come close but will not hit the E...

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


  • Added: Jul 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
622-Lonely Vigil
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On some nights an asteroid hunter searches for Earth approaching objects near the ecliptic plane where the planets and most of the asteroids are lo...

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


  • Added: Dec 26, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
620-Interstellar Travelers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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For millennia humans have gazed into the night sky and have dreamed of traveling to the stars. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that one ...

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


  • Added: Dec 11, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
619-Apophis Campaign
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Apophis, Credit: Dan Durda – FIAAA
Currently scientists, governments, and private citizens are preparing to mitigate a disaster caused by a large incoming space rock. To test techn...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, KSFR, WTIP, KGLP and more


  • Added: Dec 04, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
613-Climate Change and Telescopes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently, in the journal Nature Astronomy, a team of astronomers led by Dr. Faustine Cantalloube of the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy released...

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


  • Added: Oct 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
612-Day and Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Most life on Earth is synchronized to the regular cycles of day and night. Until about a hundred years ago, the natural night sky was familiar to ...

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


  • Added: Oct 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Sonnet for the US Ducks Independently Verified to Have been Neither Forcefed for Foie-Gras Production Nor Plucked of Their Feathers and Down During Their Lifetime
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
A United States outdoor clothing store sells coats, labelled to assure us that the down is from US Ducks Independently Verified to Have been Neith...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 01:17
In Which an Earthquake Convicts Seismologists of Manslaughter
From: Laurence Yeung
Series: The AudioPh[i]D
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Episode 2 - 12/4/12 - An investigation into the case of Italian seismologists being convicted of manslaughter, more academic news, and the inside s...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 23:35