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Unique experiences with music and medical psychedelics that paved the way for deeper faith.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Sep 07, 2023
- Length: 52:54
- Purchases: 1
In her late 20s, Erica Buist had never been invited or expected to be anywhere near a deceased human. Death had been cloistered away from her, or s...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Sep 07, 2023
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 2
This week on the show: Deep inside the toxically masculine mind.
Bought by Central Florida Public Media and WFHB
- Added: Sep 07, 2023
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
One of the most exciting exoplanetary systems discovered so far, and one we’ve talked about many times on Exoplanet Radio, is TRAPPIST-1, a system ...
- Added: Aug 31, 2023
- Length: 05:00
Today, we are going to visit TrES-2b, a planet that is so dark that it reflects less than one percent of the sunlight falling on it. How can a plan...
- Added: Aug 31, 2023
- Length: 04:00
Most of the 5000 exoplanets discovered so far have been found using methods that don’t actually see the planet at all. Brightness dimmings and sta...
- Added: Aug 31, 2023
- Length: 03:52
It's a massive lake with a murky reputation. It's survived a carp invasion, decades of dumped raw sewage, and the draining of surrounding wetlands....
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WYAP
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 52:53
- Purchases: 3
We live in a golden age of exoplanet discovery. Not only are we searching for and finding new worlds around other stars all the time, but as our t...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:01
A team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c, which is one of seven rocky planets orbiting an ultr...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:00
Astronomers estimate that there are more free roaming planets in our galaxy than there are planets in orbit around stars.
In fact, rogue exoplanet...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:00
One of the big questions we are trying to answer in exoplanet astronomy is: Just how common are habitable planets? We already know that exoplanets...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:00
Kelt-9b is a gas giant planet that orbits a star 670 light-years from Earth. It is so close to its star that its dayside temperature is 7,800 degre...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:00
Whenever humans start cataloging and classifying things, whether it be plants, animals, stars or exoplanets, we naturally become interested in the...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:00
The launch and deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope in July 2022, marked the beginning of a new era in exoplanet science. Never before had...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:07
Tucked inside a quiet solar system, in the area of sky outlined by the constellation Aquarius, orbits a planet named TRAPPIST-1d, the third of seve...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:07
One of the reasons we’ve created Exoplanet Radio is that Exoplanets are awesome. The idea that there are planets in orbit around stars outside our...
- Added: Aug 26, 2023
- Length: 03:48
This planet, VHS 1256 b, has recently been observed by the James Webb Space Telescope and it is a very interesting world. It is not like any of th...
- Added: Aug 26, 2023
- Length: 04:29
In our galaxy, there are many planets that wander alone in the dark, without a star to orbit. These rogue planets could have formed from the same m...
- Added: Aug 26, 2023
- Length: 03:59
In the depth of the sea, where the sun is powerless to send a single ray of light, there live many strange beings. Of these sea folk, we know nothi...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Aug 25, 2023
- Length: 52:52
- Purchases: 2
To get anywhere in the galaxy at anything resembling a reasonable time, we need to go fast - some fraction of light speed would be best. Proxima C...
- Added: Aug 24, 2023
- Length: 04:33
A massive, Jupiter-sized exoplanet has been discovered orbiting a small, low-mass star and this discovery is challenging theories on how planets fo...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Aug 24, 2023
- Length: 03:33
- Purchases: 1
Our galaxy likely holds hundreds of billions of planets around other stars but when and how did we begin finding them? What was the first exoplane...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Aug 24, 2023
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 1
We are a species of wonder. We have always looked up at the stars and wondered if we are alone in the universe. Are there other worlds out there, w...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Aug 24, 2023
- Length: 04:02
- Purchases: 1
WASP-39 b is a hot and puffy planet with a mass roughly one-quarter that of Jupiter and a diameter 1.3 times greater than Jupiter. Its extreme puff...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Aug 24, 2023
- Length: 03:10
- Purchases: 1
Burkhard Bilger shares the surprising truth about his grandfather's life and service in Hitler's Germany, it's the latest episode of the Constant W...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WYAP
- Added: Aug 16, 2023
- Length: 52:53
- Purchases: 3
