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Argentina, Estonia, Thailand. A ballet career could land you on just about any world stage. International success catapulted Steven Melendez to all...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 52:54
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Uncover Secrets Beyond the Solar System , Credit: Deep Astronomy
It is the fourth of seven planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system, which is the most studied planetary system outside our own. Astronomers are intensely ...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 04:04
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
There’s no question that humanity is making fast progress in understanding, cataloging and classifying planets around other stars. So far we’ve fo...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 04:04
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Human beings have discovered over five thousand five hundred exoplanets. Over 80 percent of them have orbits shorter than 50 days which would place...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 04:37
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Astronomers have recently concluded an observation study of the closest exoplanet to Earth, Proxima Centauri b and found that the planet does not t...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 04:48
Caption: Ziv Aviram
Have you ever thought about what you'd do to save the planet if you were a billionaire? Well, this week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with billiona...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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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
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
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
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
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
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
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
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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
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
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
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
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
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
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
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
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
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
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
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
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
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
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
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
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
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
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
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
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
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
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
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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
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
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
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
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